Raithe

https://comicbook.com/movies/news/beetlejuice-2-official-2024-release-date-announced/?

https://apnews.com/article/731e95b8ad979b18ffeb99f4f7ebe578 An old story from 1985.. the early days of modem use.

Might be of background interest to some folks: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-steps-control-its-data-information-2023-05-09/

Maybe not strictly political but... hard to find a good spot to drop this one. Although I am partially tempted to put it under funny things.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/valley-of-the-mills-renovation?

Indeed. It's the fun thing that morality of the times, and all countries did it. We suffered under it, we inflicted it. That joyful cycle of history and politics. Possibly majorly kick-started by the Neo-Assyrians,and just became variations of the norm.

To go with the classic quote: "Wallace and company screaming for “freedom!” in their Pict-paint while dressed up in 17th-century kilts on a bridge-less meadow is the equivalent of me making a movie about the Battle of Bunker Hill in which I dress the American colonials in Star Trek uniforms, paint their faces with made-up “Native American” designs … and then shot the film in a Florida parking lot." It might be the classical civilisation student in me, but docu-dramas on historical figures /events always bug me for how much they misrepresent the facts. Sure, dramatise around the facts, be fuzzy with things, craft your own dialogue, but mashing key points of history wrong just for the drama of it, grates on my nerves already. Mostly because how many people will then take it as fact and forget the "docu-drama" element. We are very good at what we do, and at times in history what we did best was Imperialism on the planet. Which historically is not a very nice thing. But, that's because we were better at it then pretty much every other country trying to do not-nice Imperialism. So I don't think it's a particular bad point on the British.

A bit lengthy to get the full punch line of it all... But still a classic from it's time as improvisational showmanship from three greats.