Spoiler-free zone — The SF thriller hit from Apple TV+ that should be a must-watch for anyone with an office job. Severance (Apple TV+, 2022) is a science fiction thriller series that should be a must watch for every corporate employee. Brought to life by excellent design, writing, performance and…

Students and staff health and wellbeing put at risk in the latest attempt to protect Boris Johnson from his own party As more and more allegations of corruption, hypocrisy, criminality and now racism are made against the Johnson regime and the top of the Tory party, the Prime Minister will…

My first time back in the office for 17 months — from workplace to alien environment, being stalked by an unseen predator… I looked down at the table that shouldn’t have beeen there. Just inside the revolving doors, a cheap, circular table, the wood-grain formica jarring with the carefully-styled furniture…

Vaccine Passports — No Thanks! Vaccine Passports could put the fight against discrimination back thirty years and should be opposed — particularly by unions and those on the left. (updated 22 Dec 21) Before I start, let’s be absolutely clear — I’m completely in favour of people getting the vaccine…

What side are you on in the culture war? The Tory Party in the UK, in pace with their ideological right-wing sister party in the US, the Republicans, are stoking a full-blown culture war against what they term to be ‘left wing’ or pejoratively, ‘woke’. This seems to range from…

Vote as we say or else… XR moves from political persuasion & protest to punish those who don’t do as they’re told Extinction Rebellion (XR) claims to be a pressure group prepared to take violent direct action in order to emphasise the critical danger of climate change, and protest political…

The response of British broadcast media to the death of Prince Philip. When the death of the Duke of Edinburgh was announced yesterday (9 April 2021) the BBC immediately switched into mourning mode. A newscaster changed into a black suit in a live broadcast, whilst continuing to voice over a…

Propaganda — can it have a positive purpose, especially in the case of a common enemy — a pandemic? The definitions of propaganda presented by dictionaries and encyclopaedias commonly hold negative connotations, but should it be deployed in the current national and global crisis? Undoubtedly we see propaganda every day…

This weekend, British Summer Time will end once again and the clocks will go back one hour. But in 2020, in the middle of a global pandemic, has time ceased to mean anything at all? At the beginning of Easy Rider, sitting astride his distinctive chopper motorbike, Peter Fonda pulls…