I have had this TV for the best part of a year now. I never use it. I don’t have cable or anything, and I use my laptop for watching DVDs or downloads. It’s a JVC, fairly big, and does all the usual TV things. I’ve only ever turned it on twice: Once when the coup happened, and once when …

This has come as an absolute shock. I’m not really sure where to begin with it all. Basically I’ve been put into a position whereby I feel I need to defend myself. This saddens me because I should never succumb to the pressure of a reader’s outbursts. I get a lot of e-mails; sometimes they are positive, sometimes negative. I …

Without the media there would be fewer opportunities to bear witness to the depths that human beings can sink to. A movie or a television show is just an idea, and although we can misrecognise the idea as real, it lacks certain elements of relevance. Perhaps this is why the words “Inspired by true events” can somehow make a film …

Of all the faces in Thailand, Mum Jokmok’s must surely be the most brilliant. It’s rare that a face can portray so many different emotions, and rarer still that a face can instill those same feelings in an audience. If there was ever to be done a great study of magnificent faces, one would hope that Mum would be included …

They come, they get naked, they run around the dessert for eight days just for the hell of it, and then they burn a 40 foot effigy of a man. No, it’s not a David Lynch movie. And no, they aren’t insane. This is Burning Man, the annual art festival that most people can neither explain what it is nor …

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