Matt Colquhoun's Blog, page 34
January 16, 2022
The Royal George
A post that got caught up in my 2021 backlog… Photos from a weekend stay with Natasha at her glorious pub, the Royal George, back in October 2021 (featuring shots from the Loraine James show at Studio 9294).
January 14, 2022
The K Files Teaser Trailer
Coming soon! Perhaps sooner than you think! This amazing teaser trailer was put together by Craig and we are not worthy.
January 12, 2022
Five Years
Five years today since we lost Mark. I got an email recently from someone asking if they could translate whatever I had to say for the occasion. But I hadn’t actually planned to write anything. I wondered if I should; I decided against it. We had an event planned, not to mark five years since […]
Everyday Authoritarianism
Moya Lothian-McLean has recently written an op-ed for the New York Times, exploring Boris Johnson’s increasingly authoritarian premiership. It has since rattled a bunch of conservative commentators, such as think tank stooge Robert Colvile: Even by the @nytimes‘s standards, this is extraordinary. Basically accusing Johnson of being Putin/Erdogan, on the front page of its international […]
January 11, 2022
2022 Slug
2022 has started sluggishly. After a Bank Holiday weekend spent out on the moors, I started to feel pretty rotten as the return to work was imminent. A week later, I’m only just recovering and emerging from my sick bed. I thought it was a nasty cold, which I was struggling to fight off on […]
January 9, 2022
January 7, 2022
Vile Venerations, Past and Present: Thoughts on Blair and Colston
The news that the “Colston 4” were acquitted this week was received with joy by almost all. Perhaps not quite as much joy as the initial dumping of Colston’s statue into the River Avon, which provoked an ecstasy that would be hard to replicate, but that their act was legitimated in a court of law […]
Vile Venerations, Past and Present:
Thoughts on Blair and Colston
The news that the “Colston 4” were acquitted this week was received with joy by almost all. Perhaps not quite as much joy as the initial dumping of Colston’s statue into the River Avon, which provoked an ecstasy that would be hard to replicate, but that their act was legitimated in a court of law […]
January 5, 2022
January 3, 2022
Spencer
I didn’t expect much from Spencer, nor did I care too much about yet another royal drama (fictionalised or unfolding in reality). But this film surprised me, and has left me a little haunted. Kirsten Stewart feels like an odd choice at first. She doesn’t quite fit the role, and during the first 20 minutes […]
