Opinion: Video Killed The Referee Star, Or The Growing Inhumanity Of Sport
[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By BEN WRIGHT The Video Assisted Referee (VAR) first ruined rugby. Now it’s ruining football. I don’t mean so much as sport. I mean more as cultural expressions, human moments. We love sport because we...
Film Review: Let Me Be Frank – Rage Against The Evangelical Machine, Or When Repentance Looks Like Atheism
By BEN WRIGHT I promise that if you keep reading, we’ll get to Let Me Be Frank, an amazing new documentary that exposes the American Religious Right as fraudulent and cynical. But first, indulge me in a preface. In August 2003 I moved from London, England to...
Opinion: Fantastic Mr Foxes, Or Of Leicester And Longinquity
By BEN WRIGHT In the late 1970s, my uncle wanted to go to Filbert St. My Grandmother said no. Like the stadiums of many a middling football club at the time, the home of Leicester City could be a rough place. English hooliganism was enjoying its dark hey day...
