Shabcast 6 is now available to download or listen to here ... BUT HANG ON! This Shabcast is an accompaniment to this month's edition...

Shabcast 3 was supposed to be the second part of my discussion with Josh Marsfelder .  ( Here 's part 1 of that discussion.)  But events...

Finally finished Kershaw's biography of Hitler.  I've been working on it - both volumes, unabridged - for years, picking it up for ...

To me, the most striking thing about the racist Christmas card circulated by the British National Party (or the Keystone Stormtroopers, as ...

Why do some monsters have names while others don't? The best place to start may be with the Cybermen.  After all, they went from havin...

I have a massive, endlessly-lengthening list of books, old and new, that I want to get around to reading.  Donny Gluckstein's new book A...

I think there is something inherently dodgy about the notion of 'redemptive readings'.  It seems to imply a determination to look at...

I don't wear a poppy.  Laurie Penny has written a very good article, expressing many views that I agree with,  here .  I don't engag...

In the course of preparing myself [to play Churchill in a biopic]… I realized afresh that I hate Churchill and all of his kind. I hate them...

Perhaps the most interesting thing about 'Inferno' (interesting to me anyway) is the way that the fascist world of the Brigade Leade...