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Over a hundred governments across the world have a culture ministry – though they often go by other names. These…
Well, it’s here. The least-needed film in cinematic history, and therefore likely the box office smash of 2022. In this…
In the summer of 2020 a former CIA officer published a book with the overt aim of countering the tide…
Black operations make the world go round, and have become the subject of major movies and TV, from Jack Ryan…
Can you make an environmentalist movie with the help of the Pentagon? In this episode we answer this and other…
Moonfall is the latest Roland Emmerich disaster movie, and while it isn’t as bad as Don’t Look Up, it isn’t…
Roger Ailes founded and ran Fox News for the first 20 years of its existence, making it the highest rated…
The invasion of Iraq has been called the greatest intelligence failure of all time. This is – of course –…
Perhaps unavoidably, in this month’s subscriber-only podcast we discuss the war in Ukraine – what led up to this point,…
Perhaps the most infamous story in the history of James Bond is the plagiarism lawsuit brought against Ian Fleming for…
