What is intended to shock in ‘Sicko’ really does shock. You sit watching a mother with a swing set in the background, tell the story of how her daughter fell sick with a high fever. She was raced to hospital in an ambulance only to be kept waiting while her treatment was sanctioned by her [...]

Finfacts cover the continued downturn in construction employment figures, with September marking the lowest levels of recruitment since 2003. Read more here.

Nikki Finke, a sort of Maureen O’Dowd of the entertainment world in the US, is reporting that the President of Production at Warner Brothers is refusing to consider any new productions with female leads, in light of romantic comedies and the recent ‘The Brave One’ and ‘Invasion’ lead by Jodie Foster and Nicole Kidman respectively, [...]

I’ve come across ‘Read Print’, a wide ranging collection of books, poetry and short stories as written by every great writer imaginable. The great bonus is they can each be accessed and read online for free. Definitely one worth adding to your favourites: www.readprint.com

Every once in a while a piece of news comes along that requires at least 2 readings followed by independent investigation and verification before I will actually believe it. Today I read that the movie Chapter 27, being released in December and telling the story of Mark David Chapman in the days running up to [...]

With Autumn seeing the return of so many shows there is still a gaping hole in my viewing schedule with new episodes of ‘Lost’ not beginning until the new year. Don’t read on if you want to know nothing at all, though as well as the secrets of the show being very well safe guarded [...]

It is Che’s 40th aniversity a few day ago and the Socialist partie’s website have a glowing tribute to him. I wrote a less glowing tribute.Will Bush get cool t-shirts? a while back.

Empire is reporting on rumours of a sequel to a movie close to my heart and also the Dossing Times Movie of the Year for 2005 - Serenity, the Joss Whedon directed, Nathan Fillion lead sci-fi western. Please let them not be playing with us. There aren’t enough intelligent, witty movies being made these days [...]

Presuming that you are all also wondering, as I am, what that catchy tune from the new iPod add is I am providing a public service and posting it below.

Sinead Gleason and the receptionist at my job were both at Feist’s recent gig in the Tripod. Our receptionist enjoyed the gig and Sinead concurs in [...]