By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Controversial filmmaker has called Britain a “toxic place” and refused to visit the UK for his latest film. The film, Where To Invade Next, doesn’t feature the UK as Moore didn’t think he could learn anything from Britain, a place that has “damaged the world.” ...
Review by Leslie Byron Pitt Gabriel Ripstein’s minimalist 600 Miles has a naïve, young gun runner (Kristyan Ferrer) deciding that the best thing to do with an injured ATF agent (Tim Roth) is to take him hostage. It’s a novice mistake and one that many could only see happening in ...
It's been a week since election day which saw Sadiq Khan elected Mayor of London. He has since been congratulated, attacked, had Katie Hopkins threaten to run down the street naked and survived his first feud with Donald Trump. These might not be the most pressing of issues, but they ...
By Paul Baines Just when we’re faced by the most momentous decision on the EU for 40 years, the media plays it straight. What’s happened to all the Euro bashing? The usual fear and loathing of all things European Commission? The ban on misshapen vegetables, the Euro-sausage, the forced decimalisation? It’s ...
By Oliver Ward With dark clouds gathering Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton look set to be the two presidential nominations. Like the rest of the world I have been watching the race with a kind of suspended belief. Even when states began toppling into the abyss like Eisenhower's dominoes in ...
I've been to many university debates and spoken in more than a few. I've heard one man compare gay marriage to Nazism, a 19-year-old claim he was a 'survivor' of abortion and an Israeli student joke about killing more Palestinians. Sometimes outrageous or offensive statements cause shock, more often delayed ...
King's College London has withdrawn a speaking invitation offered to Boris Johnson followed remarks about Barack Obama's heritage. The London Mayor hit out at Obama after the US President made a trip to the UK to campaign for the UK to remain in the EU. Johnson said "part-Kenyan" Obama might have ...
America's leading Republican candidates for president, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, have rabidly loyal grassroots voters. Both men's supporters viscerally hate the other and use social media to slander and brutalise the other man. Outside the conservative bubble, there is barely a hair's breadth between Cruz and Trump. One is ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor A talent agency chief who asked a Muslim woman to 'explain Brussels' was arrested as he may he been inciting racial hatred. Matthew Doyle, sparked outrage on social media after he 'confronted' a Muslim woman about the Brussels attacks which killed 34 people. He wrote ...