Archive for June, 2025
A review of the new blockbuster movie “F1”
June 28th, 2025 by Roger Darlington
This thrilling movie is the most authentic and immersive presentation of motor car racing that you’ll have every seen. You should view it on largest screen that you can and I was fortunate enough to see it in IMAX on the biggest screen in Britain. If the ‘sitting in the seat’ view, while you hurl […]
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The people of Iran do not deserve this bombing or this regime
June 23rd, 2025 by Roger Darlington
I don’t know if Iran was on the point of producing a nuclear weapon. I don’t know if the American and Israeli bombing raids have completely destroyed Iran’s nuclear programme. I don’t know if regime change is likely or what the alternative would look like. What I do know is that, in the 6,000-year history […]
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A review of the novel “Precipice” by Robert Harris
June 22nd, 2025 by Roger Darlington
Can you imagine a sitting British Prime Minister – on his second marriage and father to seven children – taking time off from affairs of state, on the edge of the greatest war the world had ever seen, to write these words to a society woman some half his age: “thinking & remembering & longing & […]
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A review of the new film “Ballerina”
June 22nd, 2025 by Roger Darlington
If you liked the John Wick action movies – and I loved all the four (so far) films in the franchises – then you’ll definitely want to see this satisfying spin-off, set in a time period between the third and fourth adventures and containing a cameo role from Keanu Reeves as the unbeatable assassin. This […]
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It’s time that I came to terms with AI
June 16th, 2025 by Roger Darlington
Like many men in now their 70s, I came late to computing – and I would probably have come even later if it hadn’t been for the fact that I was asked to become Head of Research when the Communication Workers Union (CWU) was created in 1995. This made me head of a team of […]
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A review of the new film “The Salt Path”
June 12th, 2025 by Roger Darlington
For Staffordshire couple Raynor and Moth Winn, life suddenly went horribly wrong when they became homeless following a disastrous investment and he was diagnosed with a debilitating and ultimately terminal illness. In an act of sheer desperation, they decide to walk the South West Coast Path, a 630-mile trek around the coastline of Cornwall, Devon […]
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A review of the classic British film “Darling” (1965)
June 1st, 2025 by Roger Darlington
For many, Britain in the sixties was an exciting place, full of love and liberation, Bond and the Beatles. This film, however, presents a dark view (it was even made in black & white) of the upper middle class of the time and it is a biting satire of the vapid and vacuous lifestyles of […]
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