Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Word power
10 Jan 2019Word power Last week, I watched a preview of the new movie Vice – a riveting and at times shocking…
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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…
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Who’s afraid of the Maybot? John Crace’s I, Maybot, reviewed for the Library Corner
09 Mar 2018Who’s afraid of the Maybot? Most of us remember our first encounter with a mechanical life-form. Depending on when we…
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Sex, Drugs and Taxes
25 Oct 2017Today’s guest post on Sex, Drugs and Taxes is by Multi Platform Artist, Author and all-round Renaissance man Russell C. Brennan. Russell…