Since the two-and-a-half-year-old truce between the Turkish state and the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) group broke down in recent weeks one often sees and hears the term “Kurdish separatists” or...
Indian Summers, the latest UK telly import, will be hitting US screens via PBS this September. The show appears tipped to be a Downton Abbey successor, building on what made the smash hit such a...
Exotic. A word that contains worlds. You browse through a dictionary, and you find the word exotic defined as “strange or unusual”. In its archaic sense, it was used as synonym of foreign or...
The countdown to a new season of Doctor Who has begun with the announcement of a 19 September premiere, and while we’ll be seeing the usual suspects, Moffat has once again recruited some famous...
The long-awaited third novel in Marilynne Robinson’s beloved Gilead series, Lila was released last year to an enthusiastic reception by both readers and critics. And there’s no doubt about it –...
The only charitable thing we can really say about True Detective’s second season is that it’s over, which is a mercy for all and sundry. In the long term, the question of whether the show will...
Economist Richard Wolff made an excellent animation of a lecture on the origins of “class” as a concept. He explains that, as an economic precept, capitalism lasted a whole lot longer in America...
Arab and Middle Eastern dictatorships are infamous for their cruelty, repression and violence. But these aren't the only things responsible for the longevity of tyrants like the Assad's of Syria,...
Baltimore is a city that I have never visited, despite frequent trips to the US (from my Australian home) in the 1990s. Yet, of all the places in the US I have never been, it sits alongside New...
One of the most hotly-anticipated offerings on Netflix this month is Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp, a prequel to 2001’s bizarre cult hit, Wet Hot American Summer. It joins an army of...
