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The musical biopic dedicated to Michael Jackson was released in UK cinemas on the 22nd of April, and it has been an uncharted financial success. Despite its overwhelming box office achievement, the film has proved to be somewhat divisive. Critics have begun to question the film’s complete refusal to...
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Calista Kiloh Timothée Chalamet recently said in an interview that he doesn’t want to be working in ballet or opera and that it’s kept alive even though no one cares about them anymore. For someone who has been immersed in the arts much of his life and now sits...
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Oscar McKevitt Flack War is once again raging across the Middle East. And once again, America is unnecessarily at war in the Gulf. The first Gulf War, in 1991, saw America assemble a coalition to eject the army of Saddam Hussein, who was occupying Kuwait. This was a time...
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Jamie Carey Sir Tony Blair once argued that “the route to the summit lies through the centre ground”. Having won three elections with New Labour, he perhaps had a point. For much of the past three decades, success in British politics has appeared to depend on capturing the political...
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Jamie Carey Ten months ago, the United Kingdom was a very different place. Keir Starmer’s government hadn’t found its purpose yet. Some would say it still hasn’t. Somehow, Kemi Badenoch has managed to become even more irrelevant than she was back then. For the first time, Nigel Farage had...
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Nancy Riley When asked to name her greatest achievement, Margaret Thatcher simply responded, ‘Tony Blair and New Labour.’ Thatcher strongly believed that her politics was behind the Labour Party’s sudden shift to the centre from their unionist past. In some sense, she may have been right – this version...
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Eliza Stanier As the curtain closed on this year’s Grammys, one of the most coveted and renowned events in the music industry, people were not left talking so much of the night’s award-recipients and surprise wins, but about immigration policy. In a night whose purpose was to celebrate...