What are you watching tonight?

[William the White]

An Ordinary Execution - from LF, French, subtitles - is a very good study of the last months of Stalin and what it means to live in a tyranny headed by a paranoid dictatorship... A work of fiction but clearly based on the research that his been possible since (some) of the GPU/NKVD archives have been opened... In particular, how it is now clear how closely Stalin supervised the torture of his 'enemies'... that is, anyone remotely suspected of any dissidence...

Premise - Stalin in the last six months of his life... physically and mentally ill, gets a new physician who seems to be able to ease his pains, physical ones at least... So, he gets a new doctor, and, in order to hide the fact that he is ill, has to arrest and 'deal with' her family and all she loves...

This is good political film-making... Beautifully acted - on a shoestring compared to Hollywood... So good French film able to make this kind of work... Wish it might be possible closer to home...

[Prufrock]

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Chuck Ragan's Revivial Tour, excited.

EDIT: @brucie, sounds mor elike it is medley stuff, which given Im a huuuge fan of three of the four acts is ace, and also means presumably Mr Fallon can get away with it like in that second link. Also anyone who covers Tom Waits is fine by me. Except Rod Stewart. The rioting scot!

[Prufrock]

EDIT two: Even when it isn't even originally a Tom Waits song :embarrassed:

[Bruce Rioja]

Caught a bit of QT last night. How come the Widow Twanky was on it?

[Lord Kangana]

Panto was cancelled to punish all the kids.

[Bruce Rioja]

Panto was cancelled to punish all the kids.

Ah, of course. Ed's curfew see?! He's just not thought through the repercussions.

[thebish]

Panto was cancelled to punish all the kids.

Ah, of course. Ed's curfew see?! He's just not thought through the repercussions.

I'm not convinced the curfew was Ed's idea - was it not something that Dianne Abbott (Hackney MP) called for (or suggested might be necessary)?

Ed was then asked about it in an interview - and (I think I remember it rightly) - he was fairly non-comittal saying summat like "we should calmly consider all the options" - so - not ruling it out and saying it might be worth exploring.

I have heard quite a bit of the coverage - including some of the commons speeches - and haven't yet heard Milliband actually call for a curfew...

I may be wrong though... has he directly called for a curfew?

[Bruce Rioja]

Somewhere between to two is my guess. I heard him say "I agree with Dianne Abbott on the subject of imposing curfews". Nar then, did Abbott call for them or suggest that they might be necessary? I don't know. But knowing her, probably both.

[thebish]

Somewhere between to two is my guess. I heard him say "I agree with Dianne Abbott on the subject of imposing curfews". Nar then, did Abbott call for them or suggest that they might be necessary? I don't know. But knowing her, probably both.

this is what she said on BBC breakfast....

"I have not heard of a curfew on mainland Britain in the past century. [It's] very difficult to impose. I'm not saying that it is definitely the way forward but it is something we have to consider.

"These young people, who seem to have no stake in society, are trashing their own communities. We cannot continue to have increasing numbers of looters on the streets night after night."

I don't think either she or Ed have actually called for a curfew...

[Bruce Rioja]

Well, they're not in a position to impose one whether they have or they haven't, so the points moot.

[thebish]

Well, they're not in a position to impose one whether they have or they haven't, so the points moot.

they are in a position to call for one, though... and I don't think they have...

nowt wrong with mooting a point!

Pickles - on the other hand - HAS actually called for the eviction of all council house and housing benefit funded looters (with their families)

I heard him on the radio this morning saying that they haven't quite got the powers yet - currently a council can do that if the looting/criminal damage/drug-dealing is within a quite tight geographical range of where they live...

Pickles said that he is going to have a 3month consultation with the aim of widening that so that offense could be commited anywhere - or as he put it - "I'm going to make it national-wide".

(of course - the 3months is "long grass" so that it can be quietly dumped later on) but in the meantime he sounds tough (and looks faintly ridiculous).

[Bruce Rioja]

Do I strike you as being some sort of Pickles supporter?

The guy's an absolute cock. I'm not sure what you're driving at.

[thebish]

Do I strike you as being some sort of Pickles supporter?

The guy's an absolute cock. I'm not sure what you're driving at.

I know you do! (think Pickles is a cock)!

not really driving at anything other than to point out that the council house eviction plan is something that Pickles has actually called for - so, it could legitimately be called "Pickles' Eviction Plan" if either of us wanted to do that..

whereas - Ed has NOT actually called for a curfew - and so it is not really legtimate to call it (as you did) "Ed's Curfew"...

that's all! no beef intended - sorry if my tone suggested excess beef...

(also - it's Friday - the day I have to finally knuckle down and think up summat to say in my two sunday services - and the canvas is blank - and consequently I will engage in any discussion going as a distraction from actually doing some work.... )

[Raven]

Saw Planet of Apes film and thought it was really good, well written, acted etc.

[Lofthouse Lower]

Big fan of those. Will see the new one at weekend.

[Raven]

Won't let any spoilers out but I forgot the apes were computerised thingamyjigs, it was really well done. John Lithgow although just a support role (sort of) was very very good as the father with alzeimers

[Bruce Rioja]

whereas - Ed has NOT actually called for a curfew - and so it is not really legtimate to call it (as you did) "Ed's Curfew"...

And that they had Widow Twanky on QT last night. Both deadly serious! Perhaps you need check the context.

[thebish]

whereas - Ed has NOT actually called for a curfew - and so it is not really legtimate to call it (as you did) "Ed's Curfew"...

And that they had Widow Twanky on QT last night. Both deadly serious! Perhaps you need check the context.

[William the White]

whereas - Ed has NOT actually called for a curfew - and so it is not really legtimate to call it (as you did) "Ed's Curfew"...

And that they had Widow Twanky on QT last night. Both deadly serious! Perhaps you need check the context.

She looks barmy but talks a lot of sense and does a lot of good work...

[Bruce Rioja]

whereas - Ed has NOT actually called for a curfew - and so it is not really legtimate to call it (as you did) "Ed's Curfew"...

And that they had Widow Twanky on QT last night. Both deadly serious! Perhaps you need check the context.

She looks barmy but talks a lot of sense and does a lot of good work...

Who is she?