I first saw Terry Gillian’s weird dystopia at its premier, at the Edinburgh Film Festival in 1985. I feel I must have seen it again since, but watching it last week, much of it felt unfamiliar. It stands up really well, though.

See in Letterboxd

Greta Gerwig’s dual-timeline approach makes this more interesting than a straightforward adaptation would have been.

See in Letterboxd

“Private schools criticise plans to get more poor students into university“. Of course they do.

Sally Weale writes in The Guardian:

Leading private schools have challenged plans to widen access to the most selective universities in England, warning they could lead to discrimination against young people “on the basis of the class they were born into”.

Which doesn’t happen at the moment. Not at all.