Word power
Last week, I watched a preview of the new movie Vice – a riveting and at times shocking dramatisation of the life of one of the most powerful men most of us have hardly noticed…
They warned us! Review: Middle England by Jonathan Coe
They warned us. We were making a film for the British car makers British Leyland in their Midlands Longbridge factory. But the camera crew was using an estate car made by another company. A “foreign”…
Measles and MMR vaccine deniers: how to create a panic
You may have seen reports this week of a surge in measles across Europe and the United States. The media have blamed a paper by British scientist Andrew Wakefield, whose research connected the combined MMR vaccine with…
Who’s afraid of the Maybot? John Crace’s I, Maybot, reviewed for the Library Corner
Most of us remember our first encounter with a mechanical life-form. Depending on when we were born, some of us had nightmares about Daleks. Others have had their dreams haunted by Transformers. Or Alexa. In…
What is the BBC biased against and why?
BBC bias – Every week, it seems, the BBC is under attack from one side or another. Most recently they’re in a twist over pay for women. Just this week came the weird spectacle of…
Sex, Drugs and Taxes
Today’s guest post on Sex, Drugs and Taxes is by Multi Platform Artist, Author and all-round Renaissance man Russell C. Brennan. Russell sold his first film script at 17 before moving into music, to become one Europe’s…
Could a strong local press have prevented the Grenfell Tower fire?
On the week that my novel The Breaking of Liam Glass comes out – a crime satire about the role of the press – here’s a very topical and thoughtful piece from Emily Bell in the Guardian asking…
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