We are all aware of the European press claiming the right of 'free speech' during the recent fracas over the publication of cartoons depicting the prophet, Mohammed, yet the historian David Irving may...
Our new kitten never ceases to amaze me with her lunacy and has started racing up the lining of my curtains and letting go with her front claws. She actually hangs upside down like a bat for a second...
If you had to recast the Magnificent 7 who would you choose For me, it would be...Julia Roberts for Yul BrynnerRenee Zellwegger for Steve McQueenAmy Brenneman for Brad DexterSigourney Weaver for...
I've just watched the German film, 'Run Lola Run' and thought it was fantastic. I have watched Korean, Kurdish, French and German films recently and adore their simplicity and desire to tell a story,...
Having recently undergone an MRI and a whole host of other tests, I was overjoyed to be informed I don't have any of the illnesses my doctors and I initially suspected. However, no diagnosis has been...
How is it the Australians can develop a child support system that works while we blunder along in a bureaucratic miasma? Didn't they also recently revolutionise their pension system to fit in with the...
I know Christians traditionally kneel and place their hands together to pray and am aware how Moslem men pray. I have watched Tv pictures of Jewish men at their sacred wall in Jerusalem, but would be...
This section is becoming a real rag and bone site and a kind of dumping ground for questions, my own included, that don't fit anywhere else. It seems odd to view questions about feminism, the Iron...
Our kitten sits atop the TV facing the wall allowing her tail to swing to and fro in front of the screen. I'm not one for anthropomorphising too much, so doubt it's done with mischievous intent, but...
I love to listen to my mother talk about her activist days in the Feminist movement of the 1970's. She talks with passion about the struggles for equality in employment, the visibility of female role...
With the death of former doctor, Anne Turner (66), at the Dignitas Clinic in Switzerland, I was interested to know how the argument for assisted suicide plays with ABers.In certain cases, where people...
The four young killers of gay barman, David Morley, have been convicted of manslaughter and conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm. Chelsea O' Mahoney (16) was believed to have recorded the incident...
The Government have agreed to a large scale cull of grey squirrels, particularly around areas known to have red squirrel populations. Do you think it's a good idea to protect the native red, or should...
I'm trying to remember the title of a German film in which a psychiatric nurse is rescued from under the wheels of a bus by a thief/murderer. She then allows him to live in the hospital to evade...
I taught for a few years back in the early nineties and am trying to remember a reading scheme in which a mysterious and magical black cat appeared. I think the cat could become invisible. Can anyone...
My Dad has been reading the Sharpe books and referred to 'The Forlorn Hope' as a heroic, almost suicidal, attack force. Is this artistic licence, or was the term really used in this manner by the...
I have enjoyed the foreign film season on BBC 4 recently and adored last nights Korean film, 'Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter...Spring', but I can't shake the feeling that BBC 4 is merely doing the job...