Rapscallion Magazine Film Review: a pianist’s critical note to Stalin brings an end to the dictator – we can only hope that Putin soon suffers the same death
Film Review: The Death of Stalin: Putin and his mafia cronies banned the 2017 movie because they are paranoid and so…
Rapscallion Magazine TV Review: Arena’s 1981 documentary Have you seen the Mona Lisa? like the painting hasn’t aged and remains a classic
TV Review: Arena. Have you seen the Mona Lisa? BBC4. We stood in front of the Mona Lisa and I…
Rapscallion Magazine Feature: Belarus journalists jailed for doing their job by Lukashenko’s illegal and repressive regime
By Harry Mottram: The exiled democratically elected President of Belarus Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya has reported that the journalist Katsiaryna Andreeva who…
Rapscallion Magazine: when I spent a night with the posh wife of a Tory MP (while he watched) – an article from the archives when the Conservatives actually won elections
This article was written a few years ago about how I spent election night in 2015 as as reporter for…
Rapscallion Magazine News: one of the South West’s greatest comic actors Howard Coggins has died at 52 – Stu Mcloughlin pays full tribute
By Harry Mottram: It was one of those rare shows that make theatre going such a pleasure due to its…
Rapscallion Magazine Book Review: skullduggery, Shakespeare and a desperate bid to prevent a military coup in Geoffrey Trease’ Cue for Treason
Cue for Treason by Geoffrey Treace There’s an extra character in Geoffrey Treace’s adventure story set in the dying days…
Rapscallion Magazine TV Review: The Reckoning features a tour de force by Steve Coogan but it’s the wrong title and the guilty go free – just like Savile
Rapscallion TV Review: The Reckoning. They all knew – would have been a better title as there is no reckoning…
Rapscallion Magazine Feature: pooped on by a pigeon, bitten by mosquitoes and stopped by border control – a week in Italy and selfie heaven
He looked at me long and hard. Was I an international criminal or just some old bloke on his holidays…
Rapscallion Magazine Campaign News: blogger detained for championing human rights in Egypt remains in jail despite pressure from British MPs
By Harry Mottram: A human rights activist and blogger remains in prison in Egypt despite pressure from the British Government…