Cool BritanniaDanny Boyle's film of Trainspotting was the pitch-perfect opening salvo for Tony Blair's Cool Britannia.A post-ideological antidote to the conscience-pricking social realism of such politically-driven directors as Peter Watkins and Ken Loach, its purpose was not to evoke sympathy for those enslaved to a drug habit; rather, it was to cash in on their … [Read more...] about Drugs, poverty and entertainment Pt 2
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Drugs, poverty and entertainment
Few reputations can have crashed as sensationally as that of the Sacklers, one-time cultural benefactors par excellence, now pariahs without peer, their name indelibly linked to America's opioid epidemic, their philanthropy unceremoniously dumped by the Louvre, the Tate, and the National Portrait Gallery.Drug abuse kills around 70,000 users a year in the USA, according to … [Read more...] about Drugs, poverty and entertainment