Jason Cobley
@jmcobleyauthor.bsky.social
Author of A Hundred Years to Arras, Calendar of Ghosts, Amnesia Agents, and more. Loves Dr Who, prog rock, jazz, and walking the dog. Currently writing a novel about fans of Marillion.
I’d not seen that before! Love it!
November 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I’d not seen that before! Love it!
I agree. I dont think any of them have anything more to say. Having said that, I really liked Alien Earth.
November 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I agree. I dont think any of them have anything more to say. Having said that, I really liked Alien Earth.
No point in continuing the discussion if your cognitive dissonance is this far off.
November 11, 2025 at 8:40 AM
No point in continuing the discussion if your cognitive dissonance is this far off.
This is what the Right do: say that anyone they slightly dislike is Left when in fact they’re all just different shades of Right.
November 11, 2025 at 7:06 AM
This is what the Right do: say that anyone they slightly dislike is Left when in fact they’re all just different shades of Right.
Yet another adaptation of Dracula that shoehorns in a love story that IS NOT IN THE BOOK! Visually it’s excellent but it’s bobbins.
November 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Yet another adaptation of Dracula that shoehorns in a love story that IS NOT IN THE BOOK! Visually it’s excellent but it’s bobbins.
Immigration is only the “No1 issue” because the right wing media have deemed it so. You know this, I’m sure. You’re claiming the effect is the cause when in fact it’s the other way round.
November 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Immigration is only the “No1 issue” because the right wing media have deemed it so. You know this, I’m sure. You’re claiming the effect is the cause when in fact it’s the other way round.
That doesn’t add up. Farage has had lots of BBC coverage for over a decade, long before he was even an MP. The Lib Dems and Greens don’t get anywhere near the same coverage.
November 10, 2025 at 12:03 PM
That doesn’t add up. Farage has had lots of BBC coverage for over a decade, long before he was even an MP. The Lib Dems and Greens don’t get anywhere near the same coverage.
So why does it platform Farage at every opportunity? It has definitely shifted further to the right.
November 10, 2025 at 7:56 AM
So why does it platform Farage at every opportunity? It has definitely shifted further to the right.
That’ll be why they left. The corporation has always had a right wing bias.
November 10, 2025 at 6:59 AM
That’ll be why they left. The corporation has always had a right wing bias.
Hang on… this amounts to the right-wing bias of the BBC being criticised for… not being right wing enough???
November 9, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Hang on… this amounts to the right-wing bias of the BBC being criticised for… not being right wing enough???
The BBC has never been liberal left. Don’t be silly.
November 9, 2025 at 11:35 PM
The BBC has never been liberal left. Don’t be silly.
It’s such a pity that museums aren’t funded enough to purchase to an appropriate value.
November 7, 2025 at 7:41 PM
It’s such a pity that museums aren’t funded enough to purchase to an appropriate value.
I mean, I don’t know anything about the family, but why should they feel pressured to not make money from it? If museums had first dibs and couldn’t, why can’t the family do what they want with them? Just asking, not being confrontational.
November 7, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I mean, I don’t know anything about the family, but why should they feel pressured to not make money from it? If museums had first dibs and couldn’t, why can’t the family do what they want with them? Just asking, not being confrontational.
That would be illogical. They’d probably do it.
November 5, 2025 at 9:29 PM
That would be illogical. They’d probably do it.
Exactly. They are indeed acceptable, if archaic. What is “correct” is only what’s accepted by the majority, and this is decided by usage, which is why some spellings die out and others don’t.
November 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Exactly. They are indeed acceptable, if archaic. What is “correct” is only what’s accepted by the majority, and this is decided by usage, which is why some spellings die out and others don’t.
Exactly. Usage changed it. Jane Austen wrote “connection” as “connexion “. Usage changed it.
November 4, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Exactly. Usage changed it. Jane Austen wrote “connection” as “connexion “. Usage changed it.
“I’m not doing that anymore” / “Would you like any more tea?” Usage.
November 4, 2025 at 7:53 AM
“I’m not doing that anymore” / “Would you like any more tea?” Usage.
I’m a descriptive rather than a prescriptive grammarian. Usage is usage.
November 4, 2025 at 7:51 AM
I’m a descriptive rather than a prescriptive grammarian. Usage is usage.
But “anymore” and “any more” mean two different things!
November 3, 2025 at 10:36 PM
But “anymore” and “any more” mean two different things!
Fair enough. I’ve only seen good reviews, mind, but both opinions are valid.
November 2, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Fair enough. I’ve only seen good reviews, mind, but both opinions are valid.
I see what you’re saying; I think it showed us how it doesn’t matter how rich our lives are: there are still people in charge who may wipe that away on a whim.
November 2, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I see what you’re saying; I think it showed us how it doesn’t matter how rich our lives are: there are still people in charge who may wipe that away on a whim.
Ah, but I think it did provoke a conversation about the film succeeding in asking how we think we should handle a modern day nuclear war. Films are better when they raise questions rather than provide glib or lecturing answers.
November 2, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Ah, but I think it did provoke a conversation about the film succeeding in asking how we think we should handle a modern day nuclear war. Films are better when they raise questions rather than provide glib or lecturing answers.
I felt the opposite actually. There was no ending that could satisfy that build up. Either possible ending would have felt like a cop-out unless you make the aftermath the focus of the movie, which it wasn’t. I felt it was meant to provoke this sort of conversation.
November 2, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I felt the opposite actually. There was no ending that could satisfy that build up. Either possible ending would have felt like a cop-out unless you make the aftermath the focus of the movie, which it wasn’t. I felt it was meant to provoke this sort of conversation.