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reviews · June 29, 2026
Dust Bunny (2025) review
Hannibal is one of my favourite TV series ever lived through. It is a masterpiece, a dark poem, an experience. And so to see the lead actor…
Four doors into the archive
From the fox’s den
IPersonal & wandering
Musings
Nature, memory, travel, people, private weather and the stranger edges of being alive.
Love those who make your heart feel whole
IIPower & conflict
The War Desk
Global affairs, history, propaganda, power and dispatches from the geopolitical thicket.
How to read the news
US election 2024 – the world is ending!!!!
IIIThe beautiful game
Football
Juventus, tactics, youth prospects and the beautiful game when it becomes gloriously unreasonable.
Why did Juventus sack Thiago Motta?
Our basic plan of operation is to advance and to keep on advancing regardless of whether we have to go over, under, or through the enemy.
IVBooks, screens & curiosities
Reviews
Film, television, books and whatever else earns either affection or a mauling.
Dune 2 – Villeneuve (REvIEW)
The Count of Monte Cristo (Dumas) – REVIEW
Chronological
Latest writings
24 Mar 2025
Why did Juventus sack Thiago Motta?
Results Under Thiago Motta, Juventus have won 18 of their 42 matches in all competitions, 43%; only two managers with at least…
Football
1 Dec 2024
How to read the news
The only truth you can close to know for sure is what you see and hear and understand for yourself first hand.…
The WAR desk
6 Nov 2024
US election 2024 – the world is ending!!!!
I am mainly amused. For I have long seen US politics – what we see on the screens – as basically a…
The WAR desk
25 Aug 2024
Nature is an endless poem
I spend many hours here, days, weeks, lifetimes through the spring summer and autumn…the dragonflies are returning today, and nearby I see…
Musings of a dissolute fox
29 Jun 2024
Love those who make your heart feel whole
Us olden day folks… We need to understand, accept… that every day could be our last. Why are so many focused…
Musings of a dissolute fox
9 Apr 2024
Don’t be dead too soon…I ponder in wake and dream these unanswerable questions.
I looked him in the eyes many times, I had held him in my arms many months, The vet told me he…
Musings of a dissolute fox
10 Mar 2024
Dune 2 – Villeneuve (REvIEW)
I watched Dune 2 at the cinema earlier this week in nearby Yarraville, an old style theatre… …lengthy, hugely anticipated, have…
reviews
1 Feb 2024
These last 7 days….
These last 7 days have plumbed new depths of depravity and wretchedness… These next 7 must be recovery of control at the…
Musings of a dissolute fox