Love cinema, literature, music and art. Write occasionally about cinema. Married with two kids. Originally from Greater Manchester/Cheshire. Now based in Northern Ireland. Teacher of History and Politics. Degree, PGCE and MA Ed from University of Durham.
Chris
My bleak week:
The Turin Horse (2011)
The Ascent (1977)
Khrustalyov, My Car! (1998)
Fear Eats The Soul (1974)
Killer of Sheep (1978)
Cries and Whispers (1972)
The Zone of Interest (2023)
Titicut Follies (1967)
Shoah (1985)
Come and See (1985)
The Third Part of the Night (1971)
Sunshine tunes on a grim day. Whatever gets you through, right?
❤️❤️❤️
music.apple.com/gb/album/rom...
“Someone who is rioting doesn’t know that the person they are targeting is actually looking after their mother or their granny”
Nor, it seems, do the far right politicians who whip up the rioters with their racism and hate.
The harm Farage does is criminal.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, June Painting, Ultramarine and Yellow, 1996
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1129270
I have to say, listening to the Today programme dedicate an entire (context free) section about whether migrants are more likely to be convicted criminals *the morning after* hundreds of non-migrants of my own ethnicity committed a pogrom is blood boiling.
