Nihilism has been a feature of our culture for a while: this past weekend, I saw Cruel Intentions, a 1999 film which drove the point home. Cruel Intentions [DVD] [1999] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] Sarah Michelle Gellar (Primary Contributor). Sony Pictures 1999, DVD, £6.41 This film recasts the 18th century French novel, “Les Liaisons [...]

No matter how efficiently one uses a computer, it is bound to wear out at some point. A colleague of mine has an old Windows XP desktop, and apparently it’s showing its age. I asked him, “How bad is it? Has it completely packed up?” He responded by quoting “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”: Ferris Bueller: [...]

This has been a tense weekend in a number of ways; if the news is to be believed, the folks down at the U.S. Treasury Department have been burning the midnight oil, trying to ensure the biggest dominos of the American financial system – Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac – don’t fall over. If they [...]

There Will Be Blood [DVD] [2007] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] Daniel Day Lewis (Primary Contributor). Paramount 2008, DVD, £6.48 “There Will Be Blood”,starring the Academy award winning actor Daniel Day-Lewis (as oil man Daniel Plainview) has recently been released on DVD in the United Kingdom. Given how the oil crisis has recently intensified, its [...]

…President Bush couldn’t shock you with yet another gaffe, he goes and does it again. As yesterday’s newspaper said: George Bush surprised world leaders with a joke about his poor record on the environment as he left the G8 summit in Japan. The American leader, who has been condemned throughout his presidency for failing to [...]

Another record two weeks after beating Labour in Henley keeps Greens on course for Westminster.

It was reported in the papers today that Gordon Brown sees himself as a latter day “Heathcliff” from Emily Bronte’s “Wuthering Heights”. However, as one newspaper reported: Andrew McCarthy, the acting director of the Bronte Parsonage Museum in Yorkshire, told The Daily Telegraph: “Heathcliff is a man prone to domestic violence, kidnapping, possibly murder, and [...]

Dr Caroline Lucas MEP to take part in peaceful demonstration at Menwith Hill facility tomorrow

The other day, I was wandering around the British Museum, and I happened across the Islamic Art exhibition, which is tucked into one of the building’s many discreet corners. I happen to have a fondness for Islamic art; as a rule, it tends to stay away from visual representations of individuals, and rather, goes towards [...]

Slavoj Zizek, the philosopher, supposedly said that visiting the cinema was rather like watching a toilet bowl in anticipation of it exploding excrement at the viewer. When I first heard this, I took this as just another provocative statement from him, one of his little ways to shock anyone listening into thinking about the world [...]