Tag: UK
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SFF 2023: ‘Blue Jean’ and life under Thatcher’s homophobic Britain
This review is part of Tharunka’s continued coverage of the 70th Sydney Film Festival. Read the rest of the reviews here. This year’s Sydney Writer’s Festival features Georgia Oakley’s directorial debut feature film Blue Jean, set during 1988 in the United Kingdom, when Margaret Thatcher’s government was on the precipice of enacting Section 28. Section 28 was UK…
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The clause which compromises the UK free trade deal
When the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union in July 2016 many raised concerns about the potential for the British economy to find itself compromised as the trade which brought mutual benefits between the UK and the rest of Europe would be set to slow down. Not to worry, with the British Government…
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Assange: Hypocritical Asylum?
For the past two years, the media has been capturing the debate of whether Australian ex-hacker Julian Assange, currently in the UK, should be extradited to Sweden, where he faces rape charges. This debate notwithstanding, the events of past few weeks shed a new light on Assange’s plight: the man who has relentlessly stood by…