The Man Booker Longlist 2015
The longlist for the 2015 Man Booker Prize was announced Wednesday at midday London time. It’s a 13-book list with some interesting omissions, and possibly (although this is arguable) some emerging...
Category: Feature
Greece vs the EU: The EU’s Democratic Deficit
One thing the Greek financial crisis has revealed is that democracy is in short supply. EU countries are blackmailing a fellow EU member state. EU institutions are bypassed, in favour of unelected...
ISIS: A Year of Crime and Conquest
The notorious Islamic State group (ISIS) became infamous on an international scale when it rampaged across Northern Iraq in early June 2014. A year ago. Since that time it has continued its bloody...
Review – Mad Max: Fury Road
There is a scene in the 1993 German war film “Stalingrad” where a bronzed platoon of elite storm troopers victorious from the lightening battles in the West and North Africa confront their dead...
The Avengers: Age of Ultron
During the end credits of “Avengers Age of Ultron” the camera swoops majestically around a marble statue of our heroes battling against Ultron and his countless facets. Heroic music rises and...
Eating Out In Tokyo: A Tourist’s Guide
It’s early afternoon when we finally work our way through the line at Ran Sushi to take seats at the bar, where the two chefs work deftly as they slice through fish at almost lightning speed,...
Net Neutrality Now! The FCC Broadband Ruling
The Federal Communications Commission has just issued a landmark ruling to reclassify broadband internet services as a utility, over the protests of industry giants like Comcast and AT&T, along...
The Imprisoned Al Jazeera Journalists Were Pawns in a Larger Game
After 400-days in jail in Egypt the Al-Jazeera journalists Mohamed Fahmy and Bahar Mohamed were released on bail. They still await a retrial regarding the charges leveled against them that they...
To Be Or Not To Be Charlie, That Is The Question
On Wednesday 7th of January, Paris made headlines worldwide when two armed men burst into the headquarters of the anarchist satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo to kill the cartoonists they deemed...
Review: Birdman
What is it with back-stories? Every self-respecting superhero seems to need one and preferably the darker the better. The origin of this and the origin of that, why can’t they just be? Who said we...