Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
Everything is copy – review of Nora Ephron Collected
15 May 2020NORA EPHRON COLLECTED I don’t know about you but I am a sucker for Nora Ephron’s screenplay for When Harry…
Angry movies at the Baftas
29 Jan 2020ANGRY MOVIES AT THE BAFTAS We live in angry times, it seems. So I shouldn’t have been surprised when I…
A senior cabinet politician writes…
05 Dec 2019A SENIOR CABINET POLITICIAN WRITES With elections that nobody wants coming up fast everywhere, people have been asking me what…
Ukraine elected a comedian president – so what do politicians think of voters?
24 Apr 2019Last Sunday, the voters of Ukraine elected a comedian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy won the election despite having zero experience of…
How truth-telling in Chicago led to a unique new law
17 Apr 2019Truth-telling in Chicago On February 9th 1982, a man grabbed a Chicago policeman’s gun in the street and shot him…
Word power
10 Jan 2019Word power Last week, I watched a preview of the new movie Vice – a riveting and at times shocking…
They warned us! Review: Middle England by Jonathan Coe
05 Dec 2018Review: Middle England by Jonathan Coe They warned us. We were making a film for the British car makers British…
