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A group of protesters march down a city street holding trans pride flags and placards. At the centre, a person holds a large sign reading: “THE THREAT OF TRANS PEOPLE IS A STATISTICAL ANOMALY! FACT: EHRC WANTS TO HUMILIATE TRANS PEOPLE. SUPREME COURT RULING DID NOT HEAR FROM ONE TRANS PERSON.” The crowd includes people of various ages and genders, with police officers visible to the left and Union Jack flags hanging in the background. The mood is serious but determined.

Correctional Politics and the Cruelty of Clarity

Trans people are not confused. They are not misled. They have not been lied to. They are responding, with dignity and resistance, to a sustained campaign of dehumanisation, spearheaded by a cross-section of legal hardliners, culture warriors, so called feminists, and opportunists.

Kill Zone Realism, Ideology on Mute

Warfare looks and sounds like war, but says nothing about it. Iraqis are reduced to bullet magnets, the mission is never named, and behind the realism lies a vacuum: of politics, of purpose, of meaning.

The Reshoot

If Reaganism found its myths on the big screen, Trumpism built its own spectacle—and may now be searching for its Riefenstahl.

Still from the movie The Apprentice showing Jeremy Strong and Sebastian Stan seated in the back of a limousine.

Rewatching the Apprentice

A masterful dissection of power, corruption, and the making of modern America, The Apprentice deserved to sweep the Oscars, but the Academy, as always, chose safety over truth.

Still from the movie The Hill

Review of “The Hill” (1965)

Sidney Lumet’s “The Hill” (1965) is a harrowing exploration of the human cost of military service and colonialism, set against the harsh realities of a British military prison during World War II.

Urban Wanderings: Keiller’s Cinematic Psychogeography

Patrick Keiller’s Robinson trilogy explores modern Britain through a psychogeographic lens, revealing how landscapes shape collective psychology. The films expose spaces that reflect political and social forces underlying the nation’s fractures.