Henrys Journal

Honesty Over Everything

This is the link you want to click on to get to a great web-site which won’t try to pull the wool over your eyes and tell you that Global Warming is actually a load of rubbish and you shouldn’t go believing in it. And know what else is good? You might even learn something. I know I did.

One consistent feature of theenigin is their ability–something which comes naturally and isn’t at all forced–to cram an awful lot of More

Best Music Vids - Portishead.

‘The Rip’ is one of my favourite Portishead songs. It is taken from ‘Third’ (which also happens to be my favourite one of their albums).

I had heard the track quite a few times before I finally came across its official video on You Tube. I’m not sure what I expected it to be like and I certainly wasn’t prepared for it. Portishead have always released interesting videos to accompany their singles, but this one is the best to More

The 00s: Where’s The Identity?

Human Traffic was the super hyper-active, quintessentially 90s party film about five pill-popping, out-of-their-heads friends who live only for the weekend. Monday to Thursday it’s work, boring, mundane, pointless, a waste of time—then the weekend comes: 48 hours to cut loose and live for themselves. No boss, no rules; anything goes, so long as it’s fun. Watching it now it’s a bit dated, but one thing it does more than ever–and will continue to do as time goes on–is show More

New Troubles In Northern Ireland

As Gordon Brown and the Irish Taoiseach Brian Cowen try to broker a deal between two increasingly opposed parties in Northern Ireland, it seems that we stand on the verge of a return to the dreadful days of mistrust and violence associated with The Troubles.

In the decade that has passed since the Good Friday agreement came into place, huge strides have taken place in Northern Ireland politics. I am old enough however to remember the horror of the 70s More