Hate and war

Civil war may not be ‘inevitable’, as the world’s wealthiest psychopath, Elon Musk, claims but, TOBY ABSE argues, the riots delivered a stark warning about far-right culture wars THE rioting that spread across England and Northern Ireland at the start of August was not a spontaneous reaction to the brutal murder of three young girlsContinue reading “Hate and war”

Green Socialist 111

The English title of a new film about the legendary singer-guitarist Stelios Kazantzidis, who popularised rebetiko, which is often called ‘the Greek blues’, may beguile some cinemagoers into thinking they are about to watch a biopic of the Cypriot entrepreneur, Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the founder of EasyJet. Luckily, Stelios is much more interesting than that.Continue reading “Green Socialist 111”