I have been in rickety condemned buildings that it was absolutely dangerous to go through! Found six families living in one miserably ventilated cellar—24 persons, 16 of them adults, living in the...
On Friday, the headlines read that Tahrir Square was burning. Soldiers and military police raided the square in an unprecedented bout of violence and brutality, firing weapons and using batons and...
The 2008 Obama campaign’s brilliance when it came to grassroots organising and get out the vote campaigns clearly terrified the right, which has responded with a campaign to eradicate voting rights...
In the world of books, changing the gender of the protagonist apparently changes the genre; if it’s a woman, it’s chick lit, if it’s a man, it’s literary fiction. This trend can be seen...
There is hunger in Europe. For the first time since World War II, this hunger and extreme poverty is not limited to pockets of exclusion in Eastern nations but running across the continent. Greece,...
It’s been something of a historic week in the fight for same-sex marriage in Australia. And it’s been a significant year for LGBT rights more generally (not so much, arguably, for Q* or I or any...
Kitano Takeshi is back, movie lovers, and you better cover up that little pinky because he’s liable to chop it the f*ck right off. That’s right, he’s dusted down the black Mercedes and the...
“Since 1994, our country has been facing an increasing threat of espionage because of inadequate provisions in the 1982 Act. The foreign spies continue to steal our sensitive information in order...
ABC’s Revenge is bringing some delicious class commentary to the table in what would otherwise be a fairly conventional (though still enjoyable!) television drama. Rich girl goes to The Hamptons to...
NBC’s Prime Suspect is yet another US remake of a UK television show, which makes you expect that it’s going to be absolutely dreadful, since the US seems to have some issues with translation....