Elysium
By Heordredenn: Film Review: Elysium, written, directed and co-produced by Neill Blomkamp, released August 2013. It is 2154. The Earth is an overpopulated, impoverished, environmentally degraded ruin, with civilization falling apart. But high above a vast, silver-white wheel structure hangs in the sky, the last island of peace, order and civilization, the great orbital habitat Elysium, now home to the global elite of the cosmopolitan super-rich. That is the premise of South African director Neill…
Sean Gabb – 2014 Jonathan Bowden Oratory Prize Nominee
By Max Musson: The seventh nominee for the 2014 Jonathan Bowden Oratory Prize is director of the Libertarian Alliance, Sean Gabb, nominated for an excellent thought provoking speech he delivered at the 48th New Right Meeting in the autumn of 2013. The libertarian Alliance is a well-known civil liberties think-tank based in the British Isles. Opposed to multi-culturalism and immigration, Sean Gabb famously called for the so-called Commission for Racial Equality to be shut down. Mr. Gabb is the author…