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Shutter Island Before The Revenant, there was Shutter Island. Not Leo Di Caprio’s most well-known or highest grossing collaboration with Scorsese, but a mesmerising acting masterclass from the Oscar winner. Set in a chilling, high-risk psychological facility located on a remote island in the post-war years, the thriller is both a police…
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Leave a CommentOn Sunday, Portugal beat France in the final of Euro 2016 in Paris. It’s not quite how this was supposed to go, really. It’s been a shit few months for my home country, scarred by terror attacks, seemingly never ending social unrest and even more striking than usual. The mood…
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Leave a CommentLast weekend, I was among the tens of thousands who braved the Saturday morning hangover and marched across Westminster to demonstrate against Brexit. The march has been criticised by Leave voters, who basically argue that now democracy ‘has happened’ it is anti-democratic to campaign against the will of people. The referendum is…
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Leave a CommentAs part of their Genius of the Modern World documentary series, the BBC dedicate their opening episode to one of history’s most divisive figures: Prussian-born political philosopher and sociologist Karl Marx. Marxism is the most influential methods of socioeconomic analysis ever, and has shaped the past century like no other ideology. Focusing his…
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