Spongebob Squarepants is one of my favourite childhood TV shows. My sister and I first started watching the show around its fourth or fifth season, shortly after the the departure of producer Stephen Hillenburg, and […]
Author: Luke Norton
In defence of Onward’s ending
Onward follows elf brothers Ian and Barley Lightfoot who, on Ian’s sixteenth birthday, receive a magic staff passed down by their deceased father. The staff comes with a powerful gem and a spell that will […]
Is Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman doing away with the rentier state?
Since his appointment as Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince in 2017, Mohammad bin Salman – son of Salman bin Abdulaziz – has helped enact a significant number of social reforms in the country; from restrictions on […]
Campaign symbols in the 2020 election
With the third debate Democratic debate behind us, the 2020 presidential campaign is now well and truly underway, and lots of candidates are already using logos to promote themselves. What are these logos trying to […]
The EU tax legislation that explains Brexit
Despite the House of Commons Library’s own assessment that “There is no way of calculating the percentage of national laws based on or influenced by the EU,” it’s fair to say that the EU serves […]
Has the Brexit Party “changed politics for good?”
It could be argued after last night’s EU election results that the two biggest forces in UK politics at the moment – achieving a combined 50.2% of the vote – are The Brexit Party (31.7%) […]
Theresa May: the Brexit Prime Minister
When Theresa May first took to the lectern as Prime Minister in 2016, she made an impassioned pitch to the centre ground, outlining her goals of “fighting against the burning injustice[s]” of society, and creating […]
The problem with The Empire Strikes Back
To suppose that there is a problem with The Empire Strikes Back is not to point the finger in the direction of creator George Lucas, or the film in its own right; The Empire Strikes […]
Why does The Last Jedi seem better on a rewatch?
It’s not unusual for audiences and critics to disagree on a film’s quality. Take 2017’s Justice League for instance; it’s got an audience score of 71% on Rotten Tomatoes – that’s the percentage of audiences […]
