Donald Clarke

• Politics Trailerspotting
• July 10, 2011, 22:31

We’re not really giving it a handbagging. We’re merely expressing a few reservations. Look, I understand that it’s outrageous to offer any meaningful assessment of an upcoming project on the basis of a teaser trailer. But I am, nonetheless, going …

• Politics Way off topic
• July 7, 2011, 21:42

Yes, I know, I know. “Gotcha” was actually a Sun headline.  But it does seem enormously appropriate in this case. As you will be aware, James Murdoch, a close relative of The Lord of the Flies, has announced that, following …

• Film Festivals Politics
• July 5, 2011, 22:47

Okay, I think we have to tread very carefully here. Here is a photograph of Michael D Higgins, amiable Presidential candidate, launching the Galway Film Fleadh tonight. As you might expect, he delivered a charming oration peppered with melodic sentences …

• Box Office Figures Politics
• May 8, 2011, 17:26

As I may have mentioned before, I am a great fan of the eccentric right-wing website Conservapedia. Established by one Andy Schlafly, son to well-known liberal-bashing blowhard Phyllis Schlafly, the site sells itself as a Conservative alternative to the notoriously …

• 3-D Politics
• February 18, 2011, 15:36

Isn’t there some theory arguing that, after a certain number of iterations, any argument on the internet will result in a mention of Hitler? “You prefer dogs to cats? So did Hitler. What does that tell you? Huh, huh?” That …

• Politics Trailerspotting
• February 15, 2011, 16:22

First off, before anybody else chimes in, let me confirm that, at this point, I cannot offer a fair answer to that question. The film will not emerge until April. Who knows? It could be a roaring masterpiece. But the …

• Politics
• February 13, 2011, 20:59

As others have noted, the coming election has thrown up an unprecedented number of independent candidates. It looks as if I might actually get to vote for the Trotskyite Cat Party or Lord Bannahead. I’ve done so before and have …

• Hell Politics Way off topic
• November 23, 2010, 22:23

Well, the worst thing about the economic landslide is the fact that thousands of people will lose their jobs, fail to make their house payments, feel the need to emigrate and generally experience all kinds of ordinary and extraordinary misery. …