Archive - The Black Megaphone

Netflix brings another stellar Capcom animated adaptation, taking us to a world of demons, post 9/11 and full of nu metal, the 00s.

Apr 3 •

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Brit Beats: The UK's constant complicity in Gaza and dissent, the neverending hostile environment /Italian Mambo: Meloni, MAGA's battering…

The UK continues its complicity with Israel's genocide in Gaza, the hostile environment remains. Meloni remains Trump's battering ram, as she talks to…

Apr 1 •

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March 2025

Britbeats:The Churchillian Syndrome and Bye Bye aid, Reform, Russia and police.

Starmer lives a Churchillian phase, after cutting aid and lbefore welfare cuts. Reform loses an MP to the police. What about Russia?

Mar 9 •

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February 2025

BritBeats and Italian Mambo: Starmer, Meloni and the Washington Consensus

Keir Starmer goes to Washington and Giorgia Meloni delivers a message to CPAC's far-right gathering. What is next for their relationships with…

Feb 23 •

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Captain America Brave New World/ The Palestine Laboratory

Captain America is Black. Is that Woke? Cry me a river and read the source material. Antony Loewenstein and Dan Davies' documentary on Al Jazeera is an…

Feb 14 •

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Mussolini: Son of the Century

Joe Wright's series, based on Antonio Scurati's novels and with Luca Marinelli as Mussolini comes to British screens today; but is it talking about the…

Feb 4 •

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January 2025

How can comedy, or a dramedy put together the asylum seekers and the Palestinian struggles and pain, the longing for home, the right to return, all our…

Jan 30 •

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Shoah, the Memory between Europe and Gaza, by Bruno Montesano (Micromega)

Today is Holocaust Memorial Day and you will find this op-ed by Bruno Montesano, originally published in Italian by Micromega. The newsletter will be…

Jan 27 •

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Brit Beats- The ceasefire in Gaza and the UK role & A complete unknown

While the ceasefire may finally be here, the UK needs to take responsibilities (especially Starmer and Lammy). In movie news, James Mangold's biopic on…

Jan 17 •

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Brit Beats - Musk vs Starmer...and Farage? Also Welcome back, Cecilia Sala, Mar-a-Lago Diplomacy and Crossfire

Elon Musk's attacks against Keir Starmer are not new, but why is he blasting Nigel Farage? Welcome back, Cecilia Sala! Meloni aand the Mar-a-Lago…

Jan 10 •

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December 2024

Brit Beats 2024 wrap up, Gaza, journalism is not a crime, free Cecilia Sala

From the Tories' disastrous defeat to far right violence, 2024 was quite the year in the UK, and around the globe. The genocide in Gaza continues and…

Dec 31, 2024 •

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July 2024

Euro 2024, politics, identity and diversity

Can sports be separated from politics? Euro 2024 proves that it is not the case. A conversation with Italian football journalist Valerio Moggia.

Jul 19, 2024 •

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