Archive for March, 2026
”Everyone Has A Story” – over 30 fascinating tales
March 31st, 2026 by Roger Darlington
This is the latest review of my new book “Everyone Has A Story” available from Amazon. Have you bought your copy yet? Don’t forget family and friends. “The breadth of experiences that the author ‘reports’ from 33 interviews with accomplished, but humble and low key people, is gripping. His interviewees go from tech entrepreneurs to […]
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A review of the new science fiction blockbuster “Project Hail Mary”
March 28th, 2026 by Roger Darlington
I love a good science fiction movie and novelist Andy Weir and scriptwriter Drew Goddard have done it again. A decade ago, Weir’s first book “The Martian” was turned into a script by Goddard to produce a most enjoyable film with Matt Damon in the eponymous role as the left-behind astronaut. This time, Weir’s third […]
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A huge protest against the far Right in Britain
March 28th, 2026 by Roger Darlington
Today’s Together Alliance March in London was a huge demonstration and there were similar events all around the country. The official website of the organisers stated the aim as “Together for love, hope and unity against the far right”. So there was a massive protest against racism and support for immigrants. But there was also […]
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A review of “The Longest Afternoon” by Brendan Simms, a particular account of the Battle of Waterloo
March 27th, 2026 by Roger Darlington
On 18 June 1815, an allied force commanded by the British Duke of Wellington beat a French army led by the Emperor Napoleon in the Battle of Waterloo, one of the most consequential conflicts in European history. This short work, first published in 2014, concentrates on one particular geographical section of this epic event, the […]
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Ever heard of culturally responsive pedagogy?
March 25th, 2026 by Roger Darlington
Sometimes it’s good to go to a new place and engage with a new subject. So it was that, this evening, I was at the Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) at University College London (UCL) for the launch of a book titled “Culture and Science Education: Towards More Inclusive Practice”. The event was chaired by […]
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Another five-star review on Amazon for my new book “Everyone Has A Story”
March 19th, 2026 by Roger Darlington
“Not only does everyone have a story, everyone could write something like this engaging book. Read this collective biography of 33 friends of the author, all assembled within a year’s time. This is not about accomplishment but connection to the author, and the variety provides a glimpse into Roger’s own bio as he comments on […]
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A review of the new film “The Bride!”
March 15th, 2026 by Roger Darlington
There are far too few mainstream films made by women so, at one level, we have to welcome Maggie Gyllenhaal’s second offering after her restrained and refined work in “The Lost Daughter”. “The Bride!” is absolutely Gyllenhaal’s film: she wrote, directed and produced it and her brother (Jake Gyllenhaal) and her husband (Peter Sarsgaard) star […]
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The first Amazon review of my new book “Everyone Has A Story”
March 14th, 2026 by Roger Darlington
“This is, in a sense, the third part of a brilliantly conceived trilogy. The first took the form of a fairly conventional ‘memoir’, written essentially for family friends and former colleagues. But even here, the focus, foreshadowing later works, is on all the people Roger met during his three-quarters of a century who have illuminated […]
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A review of the impressive and important 1961 film “Judgement At Nuremberg”
March 12th, 2026 by Roger Darlington
It was only after I had seen the 2025 “Nuremberg” that I finally viewed the 1961 “Judgement At Nuremberg”. While the first of these deals with the trial of the most senior of the Nazi war leaders by a four-power International Military Tribunal, the second film is a fictionalised depiction of one of the 12 […]
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A review of the memoir “The Sweet Spot” by Ronnie S Landau
March 10th, 2026 by Roger Darlington
Ronnie quotes a therapist as telling him “You’re one of the most oral people I’ve ever met.” As someone who first encountered Ronnie on a course he was giving on the Holocaust and who subsequently interviewed him for a book of my own, I can confirm that the therapist was correct. This is what has made Ronnie […]
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