Review

In this age of self-referential bubbles, of performative mutual demonisation and of siloed ideological camps that make debate impossible, it was a breath of fresh air to spot two reviews of my TECHNOFEUDALISM by conservative publications: The Washington Free Beacon and The European Conservative. Disagreeing agreeably must surely be a major improvement to unreasoned, mutually […]

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A meme is spreading: capitalism is dead. We’re toiling around in its carcass. Nothing appears as it seems in this zombie state of affairs. But why didn’t we notice? There’s confusion all over. Climate, Covid, Ukraine, Gaza. Is history accelerating, or, rather the opposite, stagnating, even regressing? In his latest book Techno Feudalism, Yanis Varoufakis states that […]

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In the not-too-distant past, many Marxist philosophers were weighed down by a shared despair. Capitalism, they feared, had become so totalizing, so all-consuming, that there was no longer any possibility of overthrowing it. “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it,” Karl Marx famously wrote in 1845, […]

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Lot No. 249 is Mark Gatiss' richest, best literary adaptation yet - with A Ghost Story for Christmas bringing scares, camp & commentary.

Russell T. Davies's Doctor Who Christmas Special "The Church on Ruby Road" was a fun & fantastical debut for Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson.

"The Giggle," the final Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Special, is a fun maximum adventure that throws everything it can at us - and it worked.

Doctor Who: The Daleks in Colour is a faster, shorter edit of the original story "The Daleks" that's vibrant & more dynamic but still flawed.

The Doctor Who/BBC Children in Need sketch "Destination: Skaro" is a hilarious sign of things to come when the show officially returns.

Doctor Who: Liberation of the Daleks is an official in-canon look at the Fourteenth Doctor's first adventure that's passable but inessential.

James Goss's final chapter of Doctor Who: Doom's Day couldn't get us to care about Doom's fate. Here's why the multimedia event didn't work.