Royal family and revolting cruelty The Working Class Self Organisation blog looks at the Royal family's treatment of its own members with mental illnesses before the screening of a…
Street Summer season, Channel 4 A naff cultural-historical hip-hop gospel packaged according to MTV aesthetics ...
Nurse Jackie, BBC2 A rare example of television fiction doing some outrageous justice to the modern work/life (im)balance
The Crimson Petal and the White, by Lucinda Coxon, BBC2 An unusually lucid, lurid costume drama goes straight for Victorian hypocrisy’s jugular ... Too…
The Promise, by Peter Kosminsky Channel 4’s showpiece drama presents a revealingly limited portrayal of Palestine.
Accused, by Jimmy McGovern, BBC1 These tightly-wound fables describing inadmissible and extenuating circumstances around fictional crimes muddle moral and legal judgmentalism
Egypt: Labor and professional syndicates join popular uprising Egypt is currently witnessing unprecedented labor and professional unrest in parallel to the popular…
This Is England ’86, by Shane Meadows Two heavily-hyped British media events – this TV series and the film ‘Made in Dagenham’ – link economics and social reproduction with sharply…
BBC staff vote for strike action BBC staff members have voted in favour of strike action in a dispute over pensions. Bectu and the National Union of Journalists said more than…
UK strike news roundup Recent weeks have seen a number of strikes and sucessful strike ballots in the UK
Mass strikes in Greece in response to new measures Mass strikes with only hours prior warning are unfolding in Greece after the government announced new crippling measures for workers
Generation Kill, by David Simon & Ed Burns This deadpan account of a US Marine company’s exploits encapsulates for Tom Jennings the baleful banality of the Iraq war.
