Politicians are always unconvincing when they talk of art but artists often understand politics. The best, and most political, of the bedside dramas is The Sea Inside, which opens in Britain on Friday. Alejandro Amenábar's film tells the story of Ramón Sampedro, a Galician sailor and poet who broke his neck diving into a shallow ocean and campaigned, for almost three decades, to be allowed to die. Why artists get our vote
Eye on Politics & Law Lords: THE BERLIN WALL’S REVENGE
Nelson Ascher's The Berlin Wall's Revenge argues that a Left shorn of its Communist goals by the fall of the Berlin Wall has become an enterprise dedicated to revenge....
Although Ascher describes the hatred of the Left as the sole surviving ember in the ashes, he left out the one other emotion which has still survived: conceit.
In the same way as the murderers of 911 used the West’s technology against itself, the contemporary left will do its best to turn democracy into a suicidal pact.
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