Charlie PlattsDune: Part Two is not a good movieAmid the praise for Denis Villeneuve’s Dune (2021) The New Yorker’s often maligned film critic Richard Brody gave a rare dissenting…·8 min read·May 6, 2024----
Charlie PlattsState Funeral 2022State Funeral, a documentary directed by Sergei Loznitsa, collages archival footage filmed in the days after Stalin’s death in March 1953…·4 min read·Jul 6, 2023----
Charlie PlattsThe Meaning of Tyson FuryWhat is a Tyson Fury and what does it mean for the rest of us?·10 min read·Jun 27, 2023----
Charlie PlattsWhy Did Russia Invade Ukraine?An attempt at an explanation.·15 min read·Mar 21, 2022--1--1
Charlie Platts100 Contextless Mark Fisher QuotesAll quotes taken from ‘K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher’·23 min read·Oct 8, 2021--1--1
Charlie PlattsEARLHis parents gave him the name Thebe Neruda Kgositsile. Pronounced ‘teh-beh’, the Setswana word for ‘shield’. But he’s born in America…·21 min read·Jun 2, 2021----
Charlie PlattsWhy do the British hate Americans so much?British people really hate Americans. And this isn’t just a cultural preference, this is one of the key ideological ideas of modern…·13 min read·Apr 26, 2021--12--12
Charlie PlattsAn A to Z of UnemploymentA scattershot reflection on my fifteen months of unemployment, from both a psychological and a social (political) perspective.·41 min read·Apr 9, 2021----
Charlie PlattsJames and SiljeLook at and comparison of the murder cases of James Bulger and Silje Redergård and the way the response to both crimes differed.·12 min read·Nov 9, 2020--1--1