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  • In the news … January 2021

    Commentary on news items and the news media itself.

  • Breaker Morant (1980)

    A landmark Australian film made relevant afresh as we consider contemporary war crimes.

  • Managing fear of change

    Managing fear and resistance to change requires insight and tact .

  • Poor literacy: career stumbling block?

    How literacy skills might determine ’employability’ and promotion opportunities.

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    The lens of insanity

    Simple language and dumbed-down concepts must not become anti-intellectualism.

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Reviews

Breaker Morant (1980)

25 January 2021 0

Kingdom of Heaven (2005): two very different films

13 January 2021 0

Fight Club (1999), 20 years later

23 December 2020 0

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979)

20 December 2020 0

Scorsese’s The Irishman: sad farewell to an era

14 January 2020 2

This Storm (2019)

12 August 2019 0

Perfidia (2014)

4 January 2018 0

Ellroy bleeds for Hopkins

31 December 2017 0
Hopkins's Hannibal Lecter

Thirty years of tracking Hannibal Lecter

18 December 2017 0

The Vietnam War (2017): I

21 November 2017 0

Features

  • ‘As if’ is not ‘what is’

    13 January 2021 0
  • Typography reveals more than just words

    25 December 2020 0
  • What does Nietzsche say to us today?

    2 December 2020 0
  • The Vietnam War (2017): I

    21 November 2017 0
  • Underworld USA: America unimagined

    24 December 2015 0
  • The Key Largo hypothesis: Brooks and Huston set the noir context

    7 July 2014 0
  • Existentialism as philosophy of action

    24 June 2012 0

Ideas

Managing fear of change

22 January 2021 0
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The lens of insanity

19 January 2021 0

A primer on liberal democracy

14 January 2021 0

‘As if’ is not ‘what is’

13 January 2021 0

Typography reveals more than just words

25 December 2020 0

How we trust ‘knowledge’

20 December 2020 0

What does Nietzsche say to us today?

2 December 2020 0

Critical thinking toolbox in the era of Trumpist imbeciles

9 October 2019 0

A short history of business process management

12 September 2016 0

Luminous realm of values

15 August 2015 0

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