Incident on Wall Street
Harley Filben reviews Bruce Springsteen’s Wrecking Ball (2012). If you have a certain sort of father, it’s a safe bet that Bruce Springsteen is part of your youth. Springsteen is…
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Useful idiots at the grassroots – Kony 2012
Posted on March 16, 2012 | No CommentsFrom the early 70s until the mid 90s, west German train stations, post offices, and other public spaces were routinely equipped with the infamous ‘Terroristen’ posters parading mugshots of wanted... -
Wheeling out Žižek – a review of Jason Barker’s ‘Marx Reloaded’
Posted on March 5, 2012 | 4 CommentsIt is trendy today to talk about revolution in the context of the economic crisis and the Arab Spring. Its coverage in popular culture has been underwhelming, with European film... -
Adventures on Facebook: sticking it to Tesco
Posted on March 4, 2012 | No CommentsBy now, everyone and their dog will be aware of the Con-Dem government’s villainous ‘workfare’ scheme that compels tens of thousands of unemployed to work for free while accepting bare... -
Who will guard the guards?
Posted on February 22, 2012 | 1 CommentThe world greeted the death of generously lunged diva Whitney Houston the other week with uncharacteristic calmness. Where we have recently been treated to the great and the good arguing... -
The fast lane to mediocrity
Posted on February 13, 2012 | 2 CommentsDo you remember when the Sex Pistols went on TV and said “poo”? Well, if you live in the UK you surely will, seeing as Channel 4 never tires of... -
You, me and the queen
Posted on February 8, 2012 | No CommentsSpeaking of the awards season: one film unlikely to pick up any glittering baubles – it has even missed out, somehow, on the Razzies – is Madonna’s by all accounts... -
Picking through the scraps
Posted on February 1, 2012 | 2 CommentsWell, the new year is here (and what a treat of a 2012 we look to have in store!); and the whole period, indeed, from December until the end of... -
Tehran Babylon
Posted on January 20, 2012 | No CommentsIranian socialist Yassamine Mather reviews A Separation. A Separation, which won awards in Europe and across the US, is a film that depicts the complexities of contemporary Iranian society. Simin, a wife... -
What made us human?
Posted on January 4, 2012 | No CommentsSimon Wells reviews Chris Stringer’s ‘The origin of our species’ Professor Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum is one of the world’s leading experts on human fossils, famous for advancing... -
Nobody’s laughing
Posted on November 28, 2011 | No CommentsRegular readers of this website will have become increasingly accustomed to my particular mode of passive-aggressive vituperation. The world throws something at me, and my first response is to hack...