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November 2007 Archives

Titter ye not at the Queen

November 27, 2007 12:19 PM

YOU can scoff at the British royal family. You can titter at President George W Bush.
And plenty among Britain’s nasty, sneering, liberal intelligentsia do not hesitate to do both.
But what can’t be denied, after watching Monarchy: The Royal Family At Work (BBC1, Mondays), is that the Queen is a deeply impressive woman.
I would even say she’s likeable, if a bit scary to us mere mortals. She certainly has shed loads of dignity and a steely glamour.

Who can imagine songs worse than John Lennon's?

November 26, 2007 3:47 PM

IT is that time of year when radio stations start to play the second worst pop record in history – over and over again.
I refer, of course, to John’s Lennon’s dirge ‘Happy Christmas (War is Over)’.
This woeful Crimbo offering would be the very worst pop record in history – if that shameful spot hadn’t already been bagged by Lennon’s even more naïve, political whinge-a-thon, the execrable ‘Imagine’.
Only someone as fundamentally twisted as Lennon could have cynically conflated the joy of the Christmas message with suffering and war – in one song.

Death by supernova for moronic British TV

November 15, 2007 10:09 AM

TELEVISION is like a supernova – an old star that’s exploding catastrophically as it dies.
TV magnates think their industry is in a golden age of ever more channels and ever more choice.
The reality is that people are switching off, and turning instead to leisure activities that require more than sitting on one’s bum and staring at a screen.
Only a few decades ago, TV programmes enthralled us. We used to talk about them avidly in our offices, factories, playgrounds, and JobCentre queues.
Now TV just makes us feel jaded, that we’ve seen it all before.

Here be monsters

November 6, 2007 2:35 PM

SURELY it’s important for our spiritual and mental health that we all know where we come from and where we belong.
For most (though not all) people that sense of belonging comes first and foremost from their families.
Then, perhaps, it comes from their home town or village; then maybe from their faith, if they have one; and also perhaps from their skin colour.
Now, I'm not saying that no one should ever move out of his or her immediate locality, social class, ethnic clique or religious comfort zone.
There has to be some degree of inter-mixing and inter-breeding, otherwise the gene pool becomes dominated by thick, murderous types who have three eyes in their foreheads.

These nights of Magic Realism

November 2, 2007 4:43 PM

IT FEELS like my life is being played out in phases that are by turn, bad, indifferent, good and tantalisingly awesome.
Currently I’m going through a tantalisingly awesome bit – especially in the evenings.
Coming to live in New Brighton has been one of the smartest moves I’ve ever made.
The place feels both (a) neglected (thanks to the abysmal Wirral Council) and (b) magically transformed, do-different in attitude, and splendidly kooky.

This page contains an archive of all entries posted to Steve Regan’s Last Resort in the November 2007. They are listed from oldest to newest.

October 2007 is the previous archive.December 2007 is the next archive.

Many more can be found on the home page or by looking through the archives.