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ARCHIVES
books of the week
July-September 2002
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28 September 2002
Clive Irving, Jeremy Wallington, Ron Hall Scandal '63
I am unable and unwilling to contemplate the image of John Major & Edwina Currie having sex, so here's a more palatable Tory scandal
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22 September 2002
CK Chandler God Told Me To
this is presumably the line of defence that Bush & Blair will adopt when they're charged with war crimes against Islam
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15 September 2002
GF Newman The Abduction
the news out of Zimbabwe doesn't get any better (or better reported) so here's a reminder of the evil that was Rhodesia
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11 September 2002
Arthur Woodstone Nixon's Head
to mark the other anniversary - the day Pinochet destroyed Chilean democracy with the enthusiastic backing of Nixon's administration
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8 September 2002
George Romero Dawn of the Dead
after a week of Tony Blair telling us that it's okay to kill people in the name of democracy and oil, it's a relief to turn to some more intelligent life-forms
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2 September 2002
Richard Bachman Rage
back to school, then, kids - the new term starts today, but beware of geeks bearing weapons
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29 August 2002
David Gurney The 'F' Certificate
the '12' certificate has been replaced by '12A', so that little kiddies can be scared by Spiderman and film companies can make a few extra bucks
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23 August 2002
Alan Burns The Angry Brigade
marking the 75th anniversary of the judicial murder of anarchists Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti - plus ça change &c.
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20 August 2002
Denver Walker Quite Right, Mr Trotsky
on the 62nd anniversary of Leon Trotsky's fatal encounter with an ice-pick, a Stalinist writes...
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16 August 2002
Michael McDowell Blackwater
selected in horror as we watch the worst floods for a century destroy swathes of Central Europe
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13 August 2002
William Wilson The LBJ Brigade
thirty years to the day after the last US troops left Vietnam, and still the dumb-ass talk of military adventurism continues
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9 August 2002
Jack Martin Videodrome
according to polls of directors and critics published today by Sight & Sound the best film ever is (yawn) Citizen Kane; round these parts we prefer Mr Cronenberg
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3 August 2002
Rex Balfour Bryan Ferry
Country Life 2002: Bryan's son, Otis Ferry, was arrested this week on a pro-hunting demo outside Tony Blair's house. (Otis?)
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29 July 2002
Bryan Magee One in Twenty
Alan Duncan has become the first Tory MP to come out, so here's a book by a former MP on gay rights
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26 July 2002
David Rome The Cannibals
an Australian novel to mark the opening of the Commonwealth Games
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19 July 2002
Harold K Banks The Strangler
on the day we learn that Dr Harold Shipman murdered 215 people, here's a serial killer from a more innocent era
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14 July 2002
Alan Bestic Turn Me On Man
Blunkett announces the de facto legalisation of cannabis, while we warn of the dangers of drugs
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9 July 2002
Ray Bradbury
The Illustrated Man
in memory of Rod Steiger, who died today
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4 July 2002
Dean Devlin, Roland Emmerich & Stephen Molstad
Independence Day
well, it's Independence Day isn't it?
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