Recently, the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, penned an article bemoaning the
greed of bankers and hatred of politicians. Indeed, it has been a widely popular argument that many commentators from around the world have put forward as an explanation for why we...

I have just returned to the UK and while working on a film project was also invited to speak about the increasing anti-Americanism that seems to be so prevalent in Europe and indeed among the US elite. While I strongly criticise the pernicious and narrow...

An interesting article appeared recently in The New York Times explaining how libraries were increasingly coming under pressure as numbers visiting swelled due to the recession. Quite rightly, it pointed out that (like so many other institutions) libraries have been steered in the direction of becoming "more relevant" and "accessible"...

When David Gregory suggested Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has had a "bumpy ride" on Meet The Press, it seemed to be somewhat of an understatement.

However, while the president declared on Jay Leno that he thought Geithner was doing an "outstanding job" others have called for...

In these troubled times it seems the one thing that we can be sure of is that bureaucrats and politicians (unfortunately increasingly interchangeable these days) who are bereft of any clear strategies for tackling the big issues of our day are keen to go after the small pleasures of life...

In the world we inhabit today, where we can agree universally on so little, we have become increasingly preoccupied and obsessed with children's safety and welfare. Ironically, it seems we have gone somewhat too far, helping to create "cotton wool kids" by helicopter parenting.

Dhalia Lithwick recently wrote about...

Nadya Suleman has become a reference point for much that contemporary pundits think is wrong with the world. The story of the world-breaking octupulets was speedily transformed from a celebratory reflection to a condemnation of "irresponsibility" and "greed."

It seems that whatever we discuss these days, the moralistic tone that...

Flying back to London I was astonished by the level of vitriol pouring from the majority of publications towards the leaders of banks, particularly HBOS and RBS. It has now become commonplace to try and point fingers at easy targets -- "it was them, it was them!" -- a bit...

The last few weeks have left many people wondering why, if we live in an age where TINA (There Is No Alternative) to the market is true, so many bailouts have occurred. While many have tagged George Bush as a socialist...

Britain is currently consumed with an extremely unhealthy obsession with knife crime. The Daily Mail suggested that there was a "blade epidemic" and that it was "out of control" after several tragic, unrelated incidents in different parts of the countries lead to deaths...

In Britain right now there is a raging discussion about leadership -- unfortunately however it is of the pragmatic kind relating to UK politician David Miliband's comments with regard to the future of the Labour Party and of course indirectly the leadership of Prime...

The enormous amount of coverage of the arrest, extradition and appearance in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) of Radovan Karadzic in the western media has in general reflected much of the shared assumptions and outlook towards the tragic events in the former Yugoslavia. Travelling...

Seldom does a day pass without stories of China's rapid emergence both as an economic giant and a political power. Recently, with the approaching Beijing Olympics, it seems as though much of the discussion is more akin to an ongoing tirade, a continual verbal onslaught by western journalists and politicians....

Irony can be cruel. Not as cruel however, as the consequences of well-meaning interventionists. While many now claim to be opposed to the war in Iraq, it never ceases to amaze me what short term memories people apparently have. Thus, the editorial in Monday's edition of The New York Times...

Why has food become such a big issue? It is not discussed in the context of why we dump sheep in the sea to maintain prices or have mountains of butter and milk while many go hungry, but rather it is presented in an accusatory manner as though humans have...

As I was hurriedly preparing to leave for a trip to London, I opened up a letter from my health provider which outlined some new provisions on the basis of Timothy's Law. Timothy's Law was named for the late Timothy O'Clair of Schenectady, who took his own life in...

The final event in the 'Live From The New York Public Library' series featured Nicholas Kristof deliver the Robert B. Silvers Lecture to a packed house. This annual series created to commemorate the work of Silvers, editor of The New York Review of Books has been presented in...

Named partly after the George Orwell and partly as reference to Ronald Reagan's famous rejoinder to President Jimmy Carter, Tuesday the New York Public Library was filled with a variety of speakers and thinkers, all assembled to reflect upon, 60 years later, Orwell's penning of Politics and the English...

The Power Of The Game Pathe Pictures and Reason Pictures.

Sports features heavily this year at the Tribeca Film Festival, with 14 premier screenings of sports-related narrative and documentary films and a partnership with ESPN.

It was strange to be in this nation of sports lovers...

The world premiere of this documentary was as compelling as it was frustrating. Like our fantasies of youth, where hope springs eternal and anything is possible, the film is at turns charming and naïve in equal measure.

Jamie Morgan, a successful British photographer for magazines such as The Face...