US presidents-to-be in denial, by Dahr Jamail
On the dropping of Iraq as an issue in the media in the months leading up to the US Presidential election

Sometimes a proposal comes along that is so simple you say to yourself, ‘Why didn’t I think of that?’ That’s what I said when reading ICTU’s ‘Economic Outlook: Narrowing the Pay Gap’. The highlight of this comprehensive review of the economy is its discussion of the growing pay gap between the upper echelons of [...]

The first decade of the millennium has seen an intense focus on the politics of the Middle East. Not that the region was considered insignificant at any time since the Second World War. But a series of events that include the 9/11 attacks, the second intifada, America’s war in Iraq and the bloody confrontation between [...]

Some films benefit from a second viewing; for my own part, among those that I didn’t ‘get’ first time round are classics such as Repulsion, Vertigo and Heaven’s Gate, films that I now view as undeniably great. But when I got wind, a couple of years back, of Michael Haneke’s intention to remake his horror [...]

Artur Boruc Knows the Score: Is 3-2.
Did any of you see last week the Hard Firm match between Glasgow Celtics and Glasgow Rangers? Wasn’t it rubbish? The football was shite and there was no atmosphere. However, there was an especial significance to the match which only those in the know will have appreciated, which was [...]

Long endowed with a potent resonance for French people, the year 1968 has, at this point, 40 years on, morphed into a brand. In spite of the tumultuous occurrences elsewhere in the world that year, it has become synonymous with France, and more particularly Paris. Only for the Czechs and Slovaks does it have anything [...]