BY STEWART SLATER If the end of the Cold War was a source of joy for most, there was one group for whom it was a decidedly mixed blessing. While the removal of the threat of nuclear annihilation was obviously a good thing, thriller writers, used to churning out stories of dastardly Soviets attempting to subvert the West, suddenly found themselves in a decidedly uncongenial … Continue reading The Man Who Saw the Future
BY STEWART SLATER Burning books has a long, if unpleasant, history. The Florentines in 1497 perpetrated the Bonfire of the Vanities, setting light in the main square to thousands of “deviant” works of art. It is a minor irony that one of the few works modern audiences would, almost unanimously, subject to that treatment is the film of the same name. For burning art is … Continue reading The Name’s Bland
BY FRANK HAVILAND ‘The name’s Bond, James Bond’ are among the most iconic cinematic words ever uttered. The moment you hear them, you are instantly transported back to Sean Connery’s first outing as 007 in ‘Dr. No’. No matter how much rebranding he goes through, Bond is inseparable from that image. Even those such as myself who didn’t grow up with Sean, will tell you … Continue reading Licence to Offend
BY TARQUIN SUTHERLAND To make sense of the way the western world is at the moment one simply must understand the core tenet in Neomarxist postmodernism that ‘everything is political’. And when these activists say EVERYTHING, they mean EVERYTHING – and that includes language itself. For these zealots have assigned all manner of twisted meanings to words that you are most likely unaware of. The … Continue reading What’s in a Word?
