"... Our bruised arms hung up for monuments ..."

"Gateway to the South" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balham_...

it will be interesting to see how the current incarnation of Hammer treats it when/if they get to re-releasing it. oh, and check out this review if you've not seen it www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Wgq...

there's some great stuff online (which you've probably seen) about R101 which was a classic government tech project failure e.g. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b3T...

I'm a big fan of Peter Cushing's performance in that first Hammer film

both only half of the full name? (if so, you could add "cello" to that...)

Foucault's Pendulum is even more anti-fascist IMHO - I recently re-read it shortly after having read his Ur-Fascism essay, and themes from the one just constantly turn up in the other

I was thinking about these issues while listening to this BBC doc a few days ago www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... I think people looking from outside at the scientific "social circle" don't realise how demanding peer review is, or more broadly how it is possible to *fail* as a scientist

interestingly Richard Delvy started out in a couple of the more successful of the early-60s instrumental surf bands: the Bel-Airs and the Challengers

needed to roughen up my voice a bit for that authentic Johnny Cash sound...

hmm... I think I've sung myself hoarse now—the sort of self-destructive behaviour of which the Whigs would doubtless approve