Welcome and Policy Statement

If you have visited my website, you will be aware of the phenomena that concern me in life: Art, cinema, the rightwing state monopoly's curve towards totalitarianism, and Palestine; not necessarily in that order.
I make no apologies for my view of the government; remember: it may look like being 'only' a drift to authoritarianism, but that is the step up to totalitarianism. For instance, each successive Home Secretary, to gain and keep power, has (as they see it) to promise ever more repressive laws and police powers than before. It's a ceaseless spiral. Our ruling bodies have used the pretext of threatened invasion to knock down our freedoms before: when we were actually at war with France in the 19th Century and Germany in the 20th.
But any whiff of war now is the UK's own making - stoking up trouble in other countries and selling arms to each warring faction, or supporting the creation of the racist state in Palestine in return for a loan from the US to enable the creation of the NHS. And at home each generation since 1945 has been given good reason to bear grudges against the regime and its representatives.
In parallel with this is the rise of State Art, the surrogate phenomenon which relies entirely for its existence on the complicity of the government (via the Arts Council), Big Business and the Press, at the expense of all artists, who scarcely need this extra layer to their struggle for survival. There is a grey area, though, between the white cubists and the makers, which is where pranksters and graffitists (for instance) flourish.
Certainly one beacon of hope in our culture is the Cinema, which is at a creative peak in the UK, invaluable in dissecting the workings of government and business and in disseminating dissent both on the big screen and in the hands of the citizen reporter.