WHAT IF WE ARE GOD - Threat To Democracy In The 21st Century
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The current political climate is showing a political will that is struggling to effectively come to terms with global warming, let alone deal with it. Whilst a serious threat of this nature is a first for civilisation, politicians struggle with it because it can directly conflict with the agendas of those who helped them into […]
Capitalism, Corporate, Democracy, Finance, Global, God, Life, Nature, Political, Power, Society, WarGEORGE GALLOWAY - Dinner with Portillo Excerpt 2003
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George Galloway:
“I could run through the world now, tyranny by tyranny and virtually every one of them is backed by the United States. It only stays in power, because of the United States. The Pakistan example, which is the perfect crystallisation of this; a soldier called ‘The General’, called himself a president, you’ll remember that, […]
BIG BROTHER - Cruelty TV As We Knew It
Sure it feels like the end of the road for what is a light entertainment/Factual show…
Or Cruelty TV as we knew it…
Racism was the last taboo, these type of show had never tackled. While class war, sexism, etc…had already been through the big brother machine… Having said that…Isn’t it the very function of CBB and […]
FOLK BRITANNIA AT BARBICAN - 21st Century Folk Music
FOLK BRITANNIA provides an idiosyncratic snapshot of British folk music in the 21st century.
A year ago, the festival Jazz Britannia was such a success that the Barbican along with BBC Four are bringing to us this year, a 3 day festival which celebrates the evolution of British folk music from the end of the Second […]
TOM HUNTER - Living in Hell and Other Stories
Currently exhibiting at The National Gallery is an east London artist depicting real life stories taken from The Hackney Gazette.
Tom Hunter tells these stories using carefully staged, large format photographs, restaging them in compositions that often directly refer to classic paintings of the past, many of the paintings to which Hunter has referred for his […]
PUBLIC ENEMY - What Happened to the Music Protests & Rage?
Having recently released “Power to the People and the Beats: Public Enemy’s Greatest Hits”, to document their immense and far-reaching legacy to the development of hip hop music, how did Public Enemy catalyse the transition of rap music from minority interest to establishment juggernaut?
Public Enemy have released a ‘Best of’ compilation of their music […]
CITIZEN KEN - A world Determined by Political & Economic Decisions
“People don’t live in a vacuum, they live in a world determined by political and economic decisions that affect them down to the most private, the most inner part of their lives” KEN L.
Ken Loach is unassuming. His work has a richness and complexity, so often absent in modern movies, that marks a strongly humanist […]
TERROR IN THE UK - Survey on Muslim Communities
The survey on Muslim communities by Channel 4’s Jon Snow in the light of the events of the 10/08.
The survey published by Channel 4’s Jon Snow on the 7th of August, highlighted what a certain section of the Muslim community made of the last events in Heathrow on the 10th of August. Coincidence, coincidence on […]
LOIN DU VIETNAM - Far From Vietnam
Loin du Vietnam (Far From Vietnam) is made up of seven short films made in the ‘60s at the time of the occupation of Vietnam by celebrated political directors including Jean-luc Godard and Alain Resnais.
Paulo Gerbaudo looks at the parralels between film and war then and now Loin du Vietnam is both a failure and […]
WORLD CUP 2006 - Diary of a Dirty World Cup
On BBC’s Bias:
The BBC lacked insight and awareness of continental football when dealing with the World-Cup. As did ITV by the way. Luckily the BBC had Leonardo and Desailly to give us much more balanced view on the game. Obviously, they have played in different countries and had the ability to judge different systems, players […]
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