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…
Further reflections on Boris’ Britain
By Frederick Dixon: In his excellent article on this website “Tory Toffs, Cosmopolitanism and Greed” Max Musson said of Boris Johnson’s 28th November speech “Deprived of racial, religious or national identity, the truly cosmopolitan individual has no real sense of community with any of the population groups among whom they live”. Boris’ speech was a vindication of Thatcherism delivered in his very own inimitable style; rousing, spirited, amusing, persuasive, and in his remarks about immigration…