• ‘Chronic’ low pay hurting civil service staff morale and recruitment, say MPs

    Public accounts committee finds real-terms median pay has decreased for most Whitehall staff since 2013Morale in the civil service is being hit by chronic low pay, and Whitehall is increasingly unable to keep staff because salaries have declined in real terms for a decade, the public accounts committee has warned.The cross-party watchdog, chaired by the Labour MP Meg Hillier, said there were “chronic pay issues” in Whitehall. Civil service pay “at almost all levels has seen a long-term decline,...

  • Civil War’s Alex Garland makes it clear that his movie actually has nothing to say about America

    From the very first trailer, it seemed like director Alex Garland’s Civil War would be a scathing indictment of something, be it the American Empire in general or more specific concerns like the rising threat of fascism or people who have the privilege to “stay out of politics” even outside of the United States’ borders, but it all seemed a bit murky. The weirdness of the world that Garland had created for the film didn’t help, with California and Texas allied against (and successfully invading)...

  • A24's 'Civil War' isn't out yet, but the internet is already going to war over it

    A24's 'Civil War,' Alex Garland's political action thriller, isn't out yet, but the online reaction has been intense.

  • Civil War review – Alex Garland’s immersive yet dispassionate war film

    The writer-director’s much-anticipated look at the horrors of an America violently divided is an impressive technical feat yet an emotionally cold drama‘We know why it might happen’: Alex Garland’s explosive thriller Civil War premieresCivil War, Alex Garland’s hotly anticipated dystopian drama on an America divided by military conflict, knows what we’re looking for. The film opens with the president (Nick Offerman) in profile, practicing lines as he prepares to address the nation. His...

  • Star Wars: The Acolyte Showrunner Says It’s Necessary to Have a Non-Star Wars Fan Writer

    The Star Wars fandom can be very protective about the IP, that’s why they want to make sure that anyone working on it is a fan, and though The Acolyte showrunner Leslye Headland is a self-professed fan of Star Wars, she still says it’s important that there was someone in

  • SXSW review: Civil War

    There is an inherent audacity in making a film like Civil War, even before writer-director Alex Garland starts to lay out the finer points of his near-future thriller. At a time when the atrocities of war are unfolding in multiple places around the world, and our own country feels perched on the kind of knife’s edge where just about anything could happen, it’s a bold move to make such a film, particularly outside of the more exploitation-heavy genre flights of things like The Purge. Treating a...

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    ‘Civil War’: SXSW Review

    Kirsten Dunst plays a photojournalist facing the horrors of an American civil war in Alex Garland's new dystopian thriller

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    Jack's Books: That Civil War-And This One

    Back about 15 years ago, a Texan named Bill Bishop wrote “The Big Sort: Why The Clustering

  • The Geopolitical Impact of the Civil War in the Sudan

    In the shadow of the Palestinian Question with the war in Gaza, the war in Sudan has been forgotten by the Western media despite its great geopolitical importance for East Africa and the Red Sea. It broke out on 15 April 2023 between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) of Dictator General Borhan and the paramilitary […]

  • List of Conservative MPs standing down at the general election

    The number of Tory MPs standing down is the highest ahead of any general election since 1997. Here's the list in full.

  • This 'Civil War' Director's Quote Matters (Really)

    Few films are under the microscope quite like 'Civil War.' The thriller, which debuted at SXSW earlier this month and hits theaters April 12, follows a near-future America at war with itself. The topic is too uncomfortable for some. Others are eager to weaponize it to bolster the Left or the Right. Early reviews suggest it offers little fodder for either side of the ideological aisle. What's intriguing, so far, is what writer/director Alex Garland has to say about the project....

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    Trudeau says Conservative premiers lying about carbon pricing

    OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused conservative politicians across Canada, including premiers, of lying to Canadians about the carbon price. Trudeau's government is buckling as attacks mount against carbon pricing and voters increasingly side with politicians who say the policy is making their lives less affordable. Most premiers and the federal Conservatives want the Liberals to cancel Monday's scheduled increase of the carbon price by $15 per tonne, adding 3.3 cents to a...