star wars

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nemo
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Star Wars, Return of the Jedi, The Empire Strikes Back, and Rogue One – there are so many parallels with the current Rump administration, and so many audacious acts of a tyrant who could not give a shit about people on any planet than his own. Blowing up Luke’s home, blowing up Alderaan, demolishing the East Wing, these are all acts of a psychopath. But also…

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Leviathan
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It’s that time of the year – the time of Yuletide greetings, chocolate melting on an open fire, sleigh bells tinkling in the long burnt grass, and of course, the perennial favourite, the one true portender of Christmas: a Star Wars movie. I have, of course, been going to see Star Wars films since the very first time, and in many ways nothing much has changed…

Leviathan
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So: what did you get up to over the holidays? Relax by the beach? Climb a high mountain? Forget about work? Demolish a building? Watch Star Wars at the cinema? Watch Back to the Future on TV? Was it all, perhaps, strangely familiar? It was, perhaps, for me, the strangest Christmas, composed of mixtures of bad weather and good beach days, along with unexpected yet exquisite…