Sensual pleasure leads to personal tragedy for Emma Recchi in Luca Guadagnino’s I Am Love – but the truly fascinating part of the film is the fate of the family textile firm.

As the title suggests this is a classic exploration of passion, lust and family breakdown. Opulent wealth allows the Recchi clan to enjoy all that is best in the world with élan and pure pleasure.

Emma (Tilda Swinton) is impassioned by the delectable culinary delights from her son’s best friend Antonio’s (Edoardo...

Public Meeting
Can’t Pay Won’t Pay: Solidarity with the Greek Protests
Stop the Cuts in Britain. Speakers include Tony Benn, Caroline Lucas MP, Christos Giovanopoulos coalition of the Radical Left SYRIZA • Aris Vasilopoulos SYRIZA, Clare Solomon ULU President elect Wednesday May 26th, 7pm
Conway Hall,
Red Lion Square WC1R 4RL
Nearest tube Holborn

Following the massive popularity of the Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay: Solidarity with the people of Greece facebook group a meeting has been organised to discuss these issues, issues which will affect us all, especially with the new ConLib coalition.


*Public Meeting*

Caroline Lucas MP will join Tony Benn and others at the Can’t Pay Won’t Pay - Solidarity with Greek Protests rally.

Join the Facebook group HERE.

Make sure you are there and please publicise widely.

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Further to my facebook profile being disabled, blogger Penny Red has written a great article in the New Statesmen.

Three weeks ago I set up a facebook group entitled Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay: Solidarity with the people of Greece

The group not only showed support and protested against the so-called austerity measures but also enabled a coming together of activists from around the world. Through it I helped organise international protests with people who had never even been on a protest before let alone...

In the THE and again in Inside Higher Ed. Interesting to compare the different sets of comments.

Democracy on Trial gave us musical comedy, art, speed debating, a giant live painting on the gallery wall and fantastic discussion from all our guests and mutineers.

You voted for our next event to the put the Media on Trial.

Join us on Tuesday from 7pm in the Institute of Education Bar for a planning meeting - bring ideas for artists, performances, questions and topics for the sessions. How the next Mutiny looks is up to you!

Map to the Institute of Education:...

On Saturday, campaigners from London Rising Tide, London Tar Sands Network and Climate Camp London gathered to shut down the Shell petrol station in Islington for 5 hours, in protest against Shell’s involment in Canada’s Tar Sands project. Further protests will focus on Shell’s AGM tomorrow.

More information on ‘dirty oil’ at Tar Sands Watch

The percentage turnout was higher than the general election and the result almost as dramatic - Mutineers have voted for the next event to be titled The Media on Trial.

The first organising meeting for the revolutionary night of discussion and performance is being held tomorrow at 7pm at the Institute of Education bar near London’s Russell Square.

In which Professor Eric Alliez performs a supplication in the name of Middlesex Philosophy department.

I finally got to see Ajami. It is a harsh and depressing film, a joint work of a Palestinian and Israeli directors Scandar Cobti and Yaron Shani, made with more than a nod to Italian neo-realism, up to the use of non-professional actors, which works very well. The story-telling is superb. The acting is minimalistic, and the low social drama, the stories of drug dealers, clandestine workers, restaurant owners and cops, never becomes melodramatic. The film depicts a claustrophobic, violent demi-monde of...

A mixed bag from Ireland last week. First the good news – Dublin City Council has voted unanimously to boycott Veolia, the company running a tramline through East Jerusalem to connect the illegal settlements to West Jerusalem.

This isn’t, mind you, as impressive as it initially sounds – Veolia won’t be stopped running the Dublin tram system and they are still in contention for the white elephant that is the metro line through North Dublin (Metro North). Irish local government is fairly powerless...

Ali Alizadeh and Tariq Ali’s speeches can be found here, thanks to the ever-audio-vigilant René Wolf. I am all kinds of upset about what’s happening with Middlesex philosophy, and with what it means for the future of everything. It’s hard not to give this over-arching narrative (pace Lyotard, arf) to everything, the one that would go: fuck…FUCK…FUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCK, etc. But let’s not go down that route…eh.

“[T]his is a strong movie examining the imprisonment and subsequent torture of those falsely accused of anti-American conspiracy.”
Joe Burnham, Time Out Now that we have a new government — involving an unprecedented coalition between the Tories and the Liberal Democrats — the ongoing UK tour of the new documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (directed by filmmaker Polly Nash and myself), continues with renewed purpose. Throughout the election period, the screenings that took...