The Reckoning: I’ve interviewed over 50 actors who’ve played real people and Steve Coogan’s Savile is the most contentious: Steve Coogan portrays Jimmy Savile in the new BBC mini-series The Reckoning. This much anticipated and debated show is the most recent – and perhaps most contentious – in a long line of programmes “based on …
Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning – a modern spy film that knows the value of old tech: Warning: this article contains spoilers for Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One. Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One is a pulsatingly entertaining spy film that combines frenetic action, globetrotting visuals and spectacular set pieces. The film is the latest …
From AIs to an unhappy elephant, the legal question of who is a person is approaching a reckoning: Happy the elephant’s story is a sad one. She is currently a resident of the Bronx Zoo in the US, where the Nonhuman Rights Project (a civil rights organisation) claims she is subject to unlawful detention. The …
South Africa in the news: André de Ruyter’s day of reckoning has arrived: Prominent groups are calling for the head of Eskom CEO André de Ruyter, but he says he will not resign on of his own accord.: “South Africa” – BingNews S/Africa investigating alleged assault of students in Cuba: The South African government is …
COVID-19: a moment of reckoning for the World Health Organization: This is a transcript of episode six of The Conversation Weekly podcast “COVID-19: where does the World Health Organization go from here?”. In this episode, three experts in global health explain why COVID-19 has been a moment of reckoning for the World Health Organization (WHO), …