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Here are five more suggestions on how to experience Christmas vicariously, all from the comfort of your own couch. Just the way Santa/Jesus/Krampus always intended it to be. Enjoy! 21. The Bishop’s Wife…
Another December day, another batch of festive gems. Welcome to Part 4 of my Christmas Film recommendations. 16. A Christmas Snow (2010) Workaholic Grinch restauranteur, Kathleen (Catherine Mary Stewart…
Welcome to Part 3 of my list of Christmas film recommendations. If you’re looking to add some new gems to your festive rotation, here’s another batch of recommendables. In no order other than thorough…
Another December day and another batch of Christmas movie recommendations. Following on from Part 1, here are another 5 festive ways to distract you from spending time with your relatives. You’re very…
January this year, my best friend was pottering around my apartment, readying for work. “So what’s on for today?” he asked me. I rolled my eyes. “What is it that you think I do all day?” I asked. He gestured…
Questioned about the Trump Tapes, VP candidate Tim Kaine said, “It makes me sick to my stomach.” It’s the kind of hyperbolic thing we all sometimes say, and yet, on this occasion Kaine actually nailed…
Hillary Clinton didn’t need more experience on the ticket, rather, had to pick someone who could compensate for her deficits.
Another life time ago, I was standing in a bathroom putting on mascara. The man I was sleeping with - who was in a long term relationship with someone who wasn’t me - stood in the doorway watching . Not…
Two things stand out about seeing Sisters last year. One, the armed guard stationed forebodingly in the foyer. (I was in the US, Star Wars opened that same weekend and cinemas seemingly had been Nostradamus-ing…
I’m a political scientist with a bit of a masochistic streak. Of course I was going to watch the Republican Convention. Of course I was going to sit through speeches by bronzed crackpots with lacklustre…