Let me first of all say that the abduction of Nicolás Maduro is wrong and is a breach of international law.
He is rightly regarded as an illegitimate president and I shed no tears about the end of his regime. However, due to the need for the UK to keep on the good side of Trump, I understand why Starmer has not condemned this.
The irony is that Elon Musk has allowed it to be used to alter images of women and children to undress them. Twitter has yet to take decent action on this, but as more leave it, I suspect it wants to keep features that will stop incels from moving to Truth Social.
I like Jimmy Carr. I think that while he is very controversial (the rest of my family cannot stand him), he has some interesting views on life. He has been doing a round of interviews and on one of them, he talks about how Labour are not the party of the working class. He is wrong, they are. Like in the USA where Trump has sold himself as representing the working class, Farage and Reform PLC have managed to pretend that they are the party of the workers when they are not.
In the UK, Labour were given a growing economy built on undeliverable spending promises which had been made by the Tories. Hard decisions had to be made and while Reform, The Greens and Your Party have economic polices from Planet Truss, Labour have got on with making our nation better.
An example of how Reform pretend to be the party of workers when they are not are the way they have opposed renters and employment rights.
A big problem with Labour is communication. They have been useless at communicating about the flaming turd of debt that they were given and Labour have been inept at stating what they have done. But, like with the Democrats in the USA, Labour are the party of the working class.
I like Novara Media. They provide a different view of the world, one which is interesting, though not one I always agree with. But they are biased and this video is an example of that.
People forget the aggression of Russia towards its neighbours. At the end of The Cold War, a peace dividend took place. Following German unification, NATO promised no further Eastern expansion, but then Russia invaded Moldova and Georgia to "liberate" Transnistria and Abkhazia, both of which happened to have large Russian populations. After seeing this, other former Warsaw Pact nations wanted to join NATO. We have seen expansion continue with Sweden and Finland joining NATO following the second invasion of Ukraine by Russia.
So while Novara Media has a paranoid view of the threat of war, they forget that Russia has been the aggressor. Many may cite the actions of the west in Kosovo, Lybia, Iraq and Afghanistan, but none of those military interventions were acts of colonisation to recreate an empire.
Football chants have always been rude, but there have to be limits. Arsenal won against Everton, keeping my dream of a title intact. (I am sure that The Team That Rhymes With City will overtake us.) The chant of the travelling supporters at the Hill Dickinson Stadium though was too much in a time of food poverty.
Basically, this is a film that can show the challenges faced by those with autism can face. There are those who are affected in worse ways, just as there are many who are now getting a diagnosis who are not as affected.
The film flowed well but the main attraction is the way Dakota Fanning played the main character. I am glad I watched it and I would recommend it to any who wish to learn a little bit about the condition.
I would have to agree that it has a predictable plot and the characters are stereotyped, but the strength of the film is in how it is put together. The characters are not overdone as in many films that try to be like this. The other strength is how twisted it is. While many will find the black humour to be too bleak, we all found it hilarious.
I doubt we will ever watch it again, but I am glad we did so, not just because we watched it as a family, but because it was a good film.
