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Slickening greed
MARIA DUARTE recommends a shocking and timely documentary about Big Oil’s death grip over governments — and our future
A screen shot from The Oil Machine
PAUL DONOVAN applauds an excellently crafted new musical that explores the life and death of Ruth Ellis
PAUL DONOVAN is tickled by the excruciating take-downs of one of the funniest, wittiest, political writers around.
RON JACOBS points out, via a transcription of Kissinger’s secret recordings, that Trump could never have existed without Nixon and Kissinger
ELLIS RAE is persuaded that the advantages of the ‘talking cure’ are superior to the treatment of mental illness with drugs
JOHN GREEN, MICHAL BONCZA and BELLA KATZ review The Good Boy, Broken English, and Don't Be Prey
The Oil Machine (PG)
Directed by Emma Davie
WITH soaring energy prices and just days before this year’s Cop27 summit in Egypt comes this thought-provoking documentary which takes a deep dive into our addiction to oil and how it is intrinsically embedded in our lives, our economy and our society.
Described as an invisible machine, the film, directed by Emma Davie, provides a potted history of North Sea Oil and how its influence extends from high finance and pensions, to cheap consumer goods which are made from oil. Apparently, the manufacture of the iPhone involves six litres of the black stuff.
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