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…
Scots Wha’ Hae?
By Heordredenn: Ethnic minorities in Scotland have doubled as a percentage of the population in just ten years, according to official 2011 Census results published on 26th September. According to the 2001 Census, ethnic minorities made up 2% of the Scots population. By the 2011 one, this had doubled to 4%. Three-quarters of these minorities were ethnic Asians, who now make up 3% of the inhabitants of Scotland. The remainder include Negroids of various origins.…