As groups emerge in various parts of Britain under the banner of ‘Black Lives Matter’ and bring disruption to our roads and cities, one would be forgiven for asking, why their demonstrations are taking place here in this country in response to events on another continent? After all, don’t we have enough problems here in the UK, such as Muslim grooming of children, homelessness, and a dire lack of housing, to name a few? It makes the question…

By Max Musson: It appears that Greece is teetering in the brink of bankruptcy and if we were to listen to the usual financial pundits of the mass media, it would appear that ‘those Greeks’, those ‘lazy, hot-headed’ Mediterranean types — the kind of people who like to spend all day in the sun, eating olives and kebabs and drinking cheap red wine and ouzo — have gotten themselves in one hell of a financial…

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…