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September 1, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

An Inconvenient Sequel – Truth to Power: Film

An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power Directors: Bonni Cohen/Jon Shenk Actual Films/Partipant Media A decade after An Inconvenient Truth Al Gore returns to the documentary form to remind us that the world is hurtling to its demise, that global warming is real, that the global warning has been ignored for far too long and that […]

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July 13, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 72 – Holly Walker

Welcome to episode 72 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. This conversation is me chatting with former Greens MP, book reviewer, mother, blogger, occasional podcaster and the author of The Whole Intimate Mess (a mini memoir), Holly Walker. You can keep up to […]

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June 8, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

P. J. O’Rourke: How The Hell Did This Happen? – The Election of 2016

How The Hell Did This Happen? – The Election of 2016 P.J. O’Rourke Atlantic Monthly Press As a teenager and then particularly in my early 20s I read a lot of P.J. O’Rourke. At first I probably didn’t even notice his political worldview…I’m guessing that because when I did ascertain that he was right-wing, libertarian, […]

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May 31, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1982

Randy Newman, Sail Away (1972) I often think about how it’s sad that a bunch of people think that Randy Newman is just a Family Guy parody sequence and the composer of some animated movie soundtracks. That Family Guy parody was amusing at the time – and I bet no one laughed harder than Randy. […]