by David Ryan | Apr 14, 2022 | Entertainment, Journalism, Uncategorized
Cynicism about the mass media, and newspaper journalists in particular, is hardly a new phenomenon. In 1928, Chicago newsmen Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur wrote Broadway comedy The Front Page, an instant classic that cemented the idea of the hard-boiled,...
by David Ryan | Apr 7, 2022 | Journalism, Personal, Uncategorized
How time flies. Is it really 30 years since I looked across a room and saw a future prime minister utter an obscenity? Disconcertingly, it is. And as my mind drifts back to April 1992, memories of the UK political scene loom large. A year and a half earlier, the...
by David Ryan | Dec 30, 2020 | Entertainment, Film, Uncategorized
This Christmas, I’ve been watching a movie about a downtrodden American who, with guidance from celestial beings, receives a second chance at happiness after discovering that life is a gift and he ought to count his blessings. Most years, I’d be saying this...
by David Ryan | Aug 2, 2020 | Entertainment, Personal
I think about Horace Rumpole a lot these days, because he taught me the principles of justice. Not social justice in the modern sense. I’m talking specifically about the philosophy that underlies English common law and the court systems that sprang from it across the...
by David Ryan | Jul 19, 2020 | Entertainment, Personal, Theatre
The Hexham heads. It’s a phrase I’d never heard until this year, when I attended a show called Scarred for Life. Actually, I may have heard it before, in February 1976 when I was seven. But if I had, I’d repressed it, such was the trauma of hearing werewolves...
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