The Guardian • Floyd Kermode

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
For readers who are in a hurry to get to the more communist stuff in this communist paper, I’ll be brief. Glass Onion is an...
Read moreDon’t Look Up
Don’t Look Up is the latest of dark political comedies by Anchorman director/writer Adam McKay.
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Derry Girls
Derry Girls is genuinely amusing and exciting – well worth a look regardless of the viewer’s ideological bias or how much that viewer is interested in Irish politics.
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Squid Game
I’ll try not to spoil Squid Game too much, in case there’s anyone out there who has somehow managed to remain un-spoilered.
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The Swap
Some young people are being educated in silos. They never meet people who are different. Wouldn’t it be great if a few of them could...
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Immigration: UK Copies Australia
That’s right, you read the headline correctly. Normally it’s the other way round. Australians copy the UK, at least when we’re not copying the US....
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Cunking the class system
The UK dangerous for Australians for a few reasons. One reason is that the country that is still legally our colonial overlord is about to...
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The importance and history of May Day
May Day was chosen as the day for International Workers’ Day in 1889 by the Marxist International Socialist Congress, in Paris. 1889 is a long...
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The right to protest should be law
Human rights and freedom are very popular terms at the moment, and it’s not hard to guess who is accused of violating them in Australian...
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Beating the war drums
Marx noted that in military state capitalism, building and operating the armed forces and the arms manufacturers is the primary activity of government. Last week...
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Party members in anti-Fascist action
Late last year it was revealed that a Nazi white supremacist organisation known as the National Socialist Network had held a get-together at Legacy Boxing...
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