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On the Bank Job and colonial contempt, briefly

03-Aug-08

Finally watched The Bank Job, the plot of which depends heavily upon the activities of one Michael de Freitas, better known as Michael X – black power activist, pimp, and murderer. Michael X was born and bred in Trinidad, a fact which the film continually acknowledges. Am thus extremely irritated by the thick Jamaican accent [...]

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Says who? (or, why bylines matter)

21-Mar-08

Trinidadian newspapers infuriate me. I’ve already written at length about their lack of a systematic corrections policy, and the superficiality of much of our reporting; today’s bugbear is their casual approach to bylines. In the context of a newspaper article, a byline is simply the name and often, the title or position of the person(s) [...]

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Archive everything (or, the necessity of cultural historians)

20-Feb-08

To this day I regret not interviewing John La Rose before he died. I regret not following through on a proposed project which would have chronicled the lives of different generations of Trinbagonians in London – The New Lonely Londoners: a documentary by Fred and sin I regret the botched handling and inevitable collapse of [...]

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