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In The Whisky Priest, perhaps the best Yes, Minister episode — an assertion that is arduously dangerous, because picking the greatest Yes, Minister episode is like picking the greatest Beatles song — Sir Humphrey Appleby is aghast to learn that Jim Hacker is so bothered about Italian Red terrorists getting access to British weapons that…
The year 1999 was a standout year for Hollywood movies. Perhaps the imminent threat of Y2K really released people’s creative juices. In that year, we got the Star Wars prequel classic The Phantom Menace, the misunderstood manifesto of machismo Fight Club, the creepy precursor to Kevin Spacey’s behaviour in American Beauty, the kid who could…
There’s a hilarious anecdote about Karl Marx that sums up the red delulu very well. Marx, who lived on other people’s money, much like most Leftists, was once taken down to a factory. Appalled at the conditions, Marx berated the person who had taken him there, showing that his desire to seize (cease) the means…
In The Matrix Reloaded, Morpheus, after his ship the Nebuchadnezzar is sunk, makes a biblical reference: I have dreamed a dream, but now the dream is gone from me. The line became a shorthand for the disappointment of hardcore Matrix fans who watched the pathbreaking original dissolve into bubble-gum pulp fiction sequels. It is also…
When VS Naipaul wrote The Area of Darkness, it was banned for its ‘anti-India’ portrayal. Perhaps the authorities of the time felt that painting an orientalist idea of India was the preserve of the white man, and VS Naipaul – by virtue of his skin colour, no matter how brilliantly he wielded Macaulay’s weapon –…
Since Barack Obama became the first Black president of the United States — and the patron saint of slightly deracinated global liberals who feel increasingly alienated as global politics lurches right — liberals have been waiting for the next Obama: the Aragorn who will again lead the righteous army and rid America of the evil…
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania was supposed to mark the dawn of a new era for the Marvel Cinematic Universe — the first film of Phase 5, a grand attempt to recapture the magic that ended when Robert Downey Jr’s Iron Man signed off by dying rather than carry a dead franchise on his shoulders.And…
There’s a school of thought popular among Washington watchers that it was Barack Obama’s jibes at Donald Trump during an ill-fated White House Correspondents’ Dinner in 2011 that might have led to Trump’s presidential run which in turn would upend the rules-based liberal order that came into effect post-World War II and now threatens not…
One of the unsaid rules about American comedy, at least in the last couple of decades, is that it barely evokes laughter, perhaps because it started taking liberal talking points too seriously. When the news broke of Kimmel being fired, one wondered when was the last time he was actually funny onscreen: the correct answer…
