Beyond time-travelling aliens and intergalactic invasion plots, Doctor Who is political; it always has been, and always will be. Sylvester McCoy, who played the 7th incarnation of the titular Doctor, understood that one of the factors that propelled Doctor Who’s success was the political subtlety it holds within. As the longest-running science fiction show in history, airing its first episode in the wake of JFK’s assassination, the programme was quite literally born in the mi

New Yorkers have now experienced about two months under the new Mamdani administration. Last November, more than a million New Yorkers, including myself, headed to the polls and cast our ballots for Zohran Mamdani. The New York City mayoral election drew significant media attention from within the five boroughs and beyond. Mamdani stood out as markedly younger than his opponents, born in Uganda, and as New York City’s first Muslim mayor. Yet the aspect that drew the greatest

Erich Maria Remarque’s beautifully tragic novel, Flotsam (1939) , elaborates the immense hardship many Jews and immigrants faced in the collapse of an already convulsing Europe on the eve of war. His articulate storytelling conveys the brutality many refugees withstood, from the harshness of border officials to the absence of trust between refugees themselves. Like Remarque, Orwell described in Why I Write the many problems glaring at European leaders during the chaos of the

Given China’s 76-year rule under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the USA’s historic crusade against Communist ideology, and the...