March 2006
(14th March 2006)
Billy: Tony, d'you ever think about death?
Tony: Fuck off!
Billy: Nanight then.
—Billy Elliott, 2000
On a major TV channel broadcast in this country, on an evening drama show, two characters are looking up at a tree. When the camera pans up to the top of the branches, the viewer sees a hanging, blackened corpse, realistically human and dead. On the ground, it shows a patch of gloopy ...
(12th March 2006)
Micky McSharry has never been robbed, but he's glad that his London hackney cab has a glass window between the driver and the back seat, and the protection is a comfort. Not that he needs it most of the time. After 20 years' cabbing, he still has a pleasingly upbeat view of humankind.
"Most people are fine," he says, as we set off around the ...