Heroes, Villains and Stuff That Happened

Here is the place to make your nominations for the three remaining Spill Awards categories – the Heroes, Villains and Events of 2018 ..

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Ten Of The Best: Grateful Dead Songs

It seems very unlikely that the Graun will come up with a replacement for RR; they are more likely – as Ravi has pointed out – ..

6 years ago
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RR Films: Intermission

You may have noticed the absence of this feature last week. I had a couple of attempts at spinning news items into a topic but, not only ..

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RR Films: Nature

Alongside the discovery that clams in the Baltic Sea are belching out methane like cows and the evidence that CO2 in the atmosphere in 2016 ..

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RR Films: Afterlife

George Michael heading towards the top of the album charts is surely proof of an afterlife? No? I’m yet to be convinced, although ..

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RR Films: (Upbeat) Break-up

As Theresa and David have a private dinner with Jean-Claude and Michel to discuss their parting of the ways, let’s look at how break-ups ..

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RR Films: Power

Yet another powerful man is found to have abused his position, this time in the film world. Power corrupts, I’m told, but that’s ..

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RR Films: Guns

As we know, guns don’t kill people, people do. However, after recent events in Las Vegas, it seems fair to say that guns make it a whole ..

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RR Films: War

When the main headline is about declaring it, maybe we should get it out of the way now. It causes death and suffering for all sides, so… ..

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RR Films: Water

We did consider films about The Sea back in our early days but there’s so much rain around at the moment that I thought wateriness ..

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RR Films: Gambling

It is possible that nuclear war is about to break out, if you believe that two uncontrollable psychopaths are dictating events, or maybe ..

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RR Films: End Of The World

As climate change has nothing to to with the flooding of the USA’s fourth largest city – obviously – Gahd must be angry ..

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Lonely Hearts – ‘Spill Challenge

“Step-grandmother, 21, WLTM competent male for fun times. Hobbies include: chainsaw carving; tree felling; rifle shooting; shot-put; ..

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RR Films: Time

The Great Bell in the Elizabeth Tower, aka Big Ben, has been silenced for a while, causing some to fear the very end of time, or at least ..

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RR Films: Space

Cassini is celebrating the end of its 20-year sojourn to Saturn by getting a good snort of the atmosphere. Cheers! Space used to be a fantastic ..

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RR Films: Coming of Age

The UK government is proposing that we be allowed to delete on-line evidence of adolescent shenanegans to save us future embarrassment. ..

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RR Films: Religion

The Orange Order has apparently asked its members to stop using the term ‘RIP’ to express grief or sympathy after a death. It said ..

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RR Films: Lust

The story that the UK government is going to stop teenage boys (and girls) watching porn on the internet – from next year! – ..

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RR Films: Heated Arguments

The story that primary school children have lost marks in their Sats tests for misshapen commas is one bound to get Guardian readers arguing ..

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RR Films: Heat

Here in the UK we seem to be enjoying something of a heatwave (well, we’ll enjoy it until it gets too much after a couple of days). ..

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RR Films: Mistakes

As they go, Theresa May’s decision to call an election rates as a mistake of Titanic proportions, sinking her reputation and putting ..

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RR Films: Memory

As we remember fondly that slightly more predictable age that ended just 100 days ago in the USA and scratch our heads at the great reversals ..

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RR Films: Leadership

With the people of Turkey apparently voting for Christmas, er, a great and wise leader, with Vlad already established as such and with Donny ..

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RR Films: Journalism

It’s Good News Week….is the top title listed in RRSA Journalism. Unfortunately that seems rarely to be the case at the moment, ..

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Haiku – ‘Spill Challenge

  A traditional Japanese Haiku is a seventeen-syllable poem of three lines, five syllables/ seven syllables/ five syllables. It usually ..

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RR Films: Money

Today sees the introduction of the new 12-sided £1 coin, so let’s have a look for films about the stuff that, it is said, makes ..

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RR Films: Work

I was tempted go go with ‘Happiness’ as this week’s topic, as yesterday was the United Nations’ International Day of Happiness, ..

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