There's a play called Sir Thomas More .  It is never performed, despite having bits in it written by Shakespeare.  Every Shakespeare pla...

What bloody man is that?  It's bloody Jack Graham.  Again. The curtain rises on Shabcast 8.  Listen and/or download here . Another ...

I wrote this for somebody as a favour, to fill some space.  I thought I might as well post it here.  It isn't really a Shabgraff piece, ...

This got cut from something else I was writing.  I'm putting it here because I'd rather put it somewhere than just delete it. At ...

It occurs to me that this post (in which I had a go at 'The Reign of Terror' for giving us a thoroughly reactionary and misleading ...

There was a fair amount of media chin-scratching last year about a supposed glumness and seriousness creeping into popular movies.  The real...

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