Tom Cruise, the greatest actor never to win an Oscar, has a new Mission: Impossible film out, and it is fantastic. I watched it last night and was mesmerised from the first second to the last. Tom Cruise is such a good actor that I forget all of his baggage. Like this: or this: Or this:... Continue Reading →
Is Anti-Semitism Worse Than Islamophobia?
It has been an interesting time in British media over the last few months. One of the prevailing narratives has been that there is an endemic anti-Semitism problem in the Labour party. Almost every branch of the mainstream media, from the BBC, to the Guardian, to Sky News have had many leading articles on the... Continue Reading →
Hodge, Zuckerberg, Free Speech, Offense And Outrage
Today I agonised on whether to write about Mark Zuckerberg or Margaret Hodge when I had a lightbulb moment: with the amount of overlap, I can write about both. A quick refresher. Zuckerberg, in a discussion about Facebook's role as an arbiter of news, said: "...at the end of the day, I don’t believe that... Continue Reading →