Archive for January, 2015
Do you like films that have a political theme?
January 11th, 2015 by Roger Darlington
As regular readers of NightHawk will know, I’m a big film fan. I enjoy most genres except horror and (usually) musicals. I’m very interested in politics, so I’m attracted to movies with a political setting or a political subject. I’ve devoted a section of my web site to such political films and reviewed 67 of […]
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100 radical heroes who changed Britain
January 10th, 2015 by Roger Darlington
I was brought up and educated in Manchester which I left at the age of 23. I regularly return to the city where one of my favourite locations is the People’s History Museum. The museum has been hit by funding cuts and, as a way of raising new funds, it is inviting funders to sponsor […]
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My first experience of an audio boom courtesy of the TSI
January 9th, 2015 by Roger Darlington
I’ve recently been appointed by Ofcom to chair the Consumer Forum for Communications and the Trading Standards Institute – a valued member of the CFC – kindly gave me a minute to make what they call an audio boom.
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The love that lasted 65 years before they died only days apart
January 9th, 2015 by Roger Darlington
It’s a story that sounds too romantic and tragic to be true. The wife of a World War Two veteran who left his nursing home to go to France for D-Day commemorations has died just days after her husband. Bernard Jordan sparked a police search when he left the care home in Hove to join […]
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Why 2015 will be longer than 2014
January 8th, 2015 by Roger Darlington
No – it’s not a leap year. But this year is to last a second longer than 2014. The decision was made this week by the International Earth Rotation Service (IERS). A leap second is to be inserted at the very end of 30 June. Why? All is explained here.
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#jesuischarlie – remembering the Paris victims
January 8th, 2015 by Roger Darlington
Charlie Hebdo editor and cartoonist Stephane “Charb” Charbonnier, 47 Cartoonists Jean “Cabu” Cabut, 76, Bernard “Tignous” Verlhac, 57, Georges Wolinski, 80 and Philippe Honore, 73 Economist and regular magazine columnist Bernard Maris, 68, known to readers as Uncle Bernard Mustapha Ourrad, proof-reader Elsa Cayat, psychoanalyst and columnist, the only woman killed Michel Renaud, who was visiting from the […]
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A review of the film “The Theory Of Everything”
January 7th, 2015 by Roger Darlington
This is an amazing story rendered in brilliant fashion with a simply outstanding central performance. Read my review here and then go see the movie.
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How concerned should the world be about North Korea?
January 7th, 2015 by Roger Darlington
There is a tendency – perhaps encouraged by the recent comedy movie “The Interview” – to treat North Korea as a bit of a joke. But it poses a serious threat to South Korea and the wider world, as underlined by today’s item in the “Guardian” newspaper: “South Korea has claimed that North Korea has […]
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It’s Fatcat Tuesday – and that’s nothing to purr about
January 6th, 2015 by Roger Darlington
By the end of today, Britain’s top bosses will have made more money in 2015 than the average UK worker earns in an entire year, according to calculations by the High Pay Centre think-tank. The calculations show that earnings for company executives returning to work this Monday will pass the UK average salary of £27,200 […]
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A review of the film “The Love Punch”
January 6th, 2015 by Roger Darlington
I did not see this film – released last year – at the cinema and I wouldn’t have wanted to pay the admission for such a lightweight work but, to pass a winter’s evening at home, it’s entertaining enough. You can read my review here.
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