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Tom Sutcliffe: Mourn Reg - but not 'On the Buses'
Tuesday, 18 November 2008
Understandably the homepage of the On The Buses Official Fan Club was in a relatively sombre mood yesterday, noting the death of Reg Varney with the headline "Thanks for all the laughter, never to be forgotten here at the fan club".
Tom Sutcliffe: Provocation is no excuse for murder
Tuesday, 11 November 2008
It was interesting that it should have been Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers who indulged in a bit of judicial muttering about the Government's proposals to scrap the defence of provocation in murder cases – mutterings which lead Harriet Harman to accuse him of "defending a version of honour killings".
Tom Sutcliffe: They all called it: this was definitely historic
Wednesday, 5 November 2008
Jeremy Vine conjured up a strange virtual sewage pipe to explain electoral college votes
Tom Sutcliffe: Bobby Sands and 007 united in martyrdom
Tuesday, 28 October 2008
If you'd asked me last week I would have thought it vanishingly unlikely that Steve McQueen's film Hunger and the latest James Bond film Quantum of Solace would turn out to have anything in common at all, apart from the the medium they share. One is a deeply serious account of the damage that humans can do to themselves made by a Turner Prize winning artist; the other is a rather stylish Ford advert with an apparently unlimited budget.
Tom Sutcliffe: Is Andrew a Renaissance man?
Friday, 24 October 2008
The Week in Culture: 'He appeared to be wearing a cloak of marten fur and gesturing at the viewer in an admonitory way'
Tom Sutcliffe: A knife edge between real horror and mere bravura
Tuesday, 21 October 2008
There was an intriguing moment in Jonathan Kent's new production of Oedipus when Ralph Fiennes took in a deep breath, a little like a high-diver preparing for a complex dive, and then keened it out again. At first it was like an stove-top kettle coming to the boil – a high, wailing thread of sound – but then, as it carried on (for far longer than you would have thought physically possible), it deepened in resonance to become a roar, slowly growing in volume and ferocity.
Thomas Sutcliffe: TV research needs health warnings
Tuesday, 14 October 2008
It is one of the most elementary tenets of scientific research that a well-designed experiment should only contain one variable. if you're testing for the effect of a particular substance you have to be sure that its presence or absence is the only thing that changes between tests. This is particularly important when you're testing humans, those multi-channel receivers of stimuli, obvious and subliminal.
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Despite the weight on his shoulders, the Chancellor remains remarkably calm.
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So Hitler actually did have only one ball. I call that a pity for history.
• Deborah Orr: Praising the public on pointless decisions.
People power, as it pertains to television anyway, is proving to be a tricky beast.
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