Rodney Ulyate's Blog - Posts Tagged "new-statesman"

13 November 2019:

Ryan Gilbey complains in his review of Joker ("No laughing matter," 4 October) that the film gives us "no glimpses of the super rats which we are told have been running amok in Gotham City." Gilbey's eyes must have glazed over when he arrived at the inevitable scene in which Bruce Wayne's parents are mugged and murdered. Having seen this, shot for shot, in every other Batman movie, and bored to tears at the prospect of seeing it again, my eyes were beginning to acquire a glass of their own -- when they descried the giant rodent parading in the background.

Q: "Should respectable weeklies be in the habit of giving prominent moderate politicians, who don't want for platforms already, a whole page to jot down their unmediated, self-loving self-justifications? No doubt there is a place for "The Diary" -- see Alan Bennett's imperishable feuilletons for The London Review of Books -- but have Margaret Hodge (8 November), Rory Stewart (1 November), Joanna Cherry (25 October), David Gauke (27 September) or Jess Phillips (20 September) told us anything that couldn't be better explored in the company of an adversarial interviewer? I ask these questions rhetorically, but perhaps the answers aren't quite so obvious to you as they are to me."

A: "Fair point, Rodney. We should possibly stop it. But we thought we'd open the Diary up to politicians across all parties during the election period."

All parties, but only one political tendency.