“Gee, you seem pretty confident there, Luke” – I am! The closeness of the election certainly helps; confidence in the polls tends to grow as election day nears, and FiveThirtyEight currently puts Biden’s chances at […]
Author: Luke Norton
How The Social Network is written
David Fincher’s The Social Network turns ten today. What can I say about this film that hasn’t already been said? Part-college caper, part-courtroom drama, Quentin Tarantino named this Aaron Sorkin-penned biopic “hands down” the best […]
Has Christopher Nolan lost his way?
There’s no single director I can credit more with fostering my interest in cinema than Christopher Nolan. Inception released around the time that I began to take a more analytical approach to cinema, with an […]
What makes ‘Band Geeks’ the best Spongebob episode
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 […]
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%) […]
[Obit] 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 […]
