IFFR 2021: a 50th anniversary film feast for both the eyes and the ears — Film Friday
The IFFR has become one of the largest audience and industry-driven film festivals in the world, and is always at the cutting edge in terms of its output.
Pacificism at any price: the moral defects of cultural relativism
Cultural relativism is pacificism at any cost, or, in other words, submission.
Reviving a British martial art
It is to my eyes a far more rounded, dynamic and interesting sport than the modern fencing that still exists today.
No escape: lessons from Noah’s Ark
Destroying the good along with the bad leads to no improvement, whilst retaining the good along with the bad only leads to further decay.
The power and the glory: patriotism and music
They embody the disrespectful loyalty of the old left that truly believed that a patriot was his country's worst critic.
Anti-BBC campaigners are wrong to celebrate the rise of Netflix
I am sympathetic to many of the complaints levelled against the BBC. But why those who wish to ‘defund’ the corporation cheer on the rise of Netflix and the like is beyond me.
Cashing in on Christmas: the decline of festive music
‘It is especially interesting that, in today’s post-modern, secular, scientific, uber-factual world, carols are able to continue to hold their place in Christmas celebration.’
Celebrate Christmas after Christmas, not before
Christmas is too profound to be limited to one day of feasting and merriment.