BY SEAN WALSH If you’ve seen it, you’ll know that A Prayer for the Dying is the worst film ever made. If you haven’t then you’re just going to have to trust me. Its awfulness is incommunicable even by critics far more articulate than this one. You might get a sense of it if I tell you that Mickey Rourke is an IRA gunman with … Continue reading Did Nobody Think to Tell Starmer that the Sequel’s Always Worse?
What to consider when buying a property as a first-time buyer? After years of renting or saving money by living with your parents, you might have finally taken the plunge and taken the decision to buy your first property. However, before you get carried away by thoughts of dinner parties and interior design plans, there are several things that you need to consider before putting … Continue reading First Time Buyer Considerations
BY QUENTIN PIGG Though it’s not customary to receive the bin man with celebration, in the early hours of Sunday 16th February it was not a customary position that I would find myself in. For amongst the empty packets of quail eggs, gooseberry yogurt pots and other banalities of general waste, lay the ashes of my dead neighbour. She’d been in there for at least … Continue reading Dear Ruth, RIP
BY QUENTIN PIGG Raise the drawbridge, the Commies are coming for your Castle. Unlike France, Germany and Switzerland, Britain is a nation of homeowners. One may even say home-owning has become a part of British culture – that is, if we are still permitted to hold any semblance of culture which extends beyond the ubiquitous duty of ‘tolerance’. If tolerance is to be all that’s … Continue reading Labour’s Property Thieves
