I'm not naive enough to pretend that on its own cinema can capture the very soul of significant social and cultural problems.

I'm not naive enough to pretend that on its own cinema can capture the very soul of significant social and cultural problems.

Film and the other creative industries are being transformed by digital technologies.

At least in the West, politicians, corporations and media moguls can no longer take for granted their power to control the public discourse - and have it go unchallenged.

Newspapers and their editors have to become as accountable as the rest of us - they are not 'a special case,' and they have only themselves to blame for having lost the argument for 'exceptionalism' - and with it the right to 'self-regulation.

There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher.

What is certain is that plurality and diversity are not, and never can be, a natural 'byproduct' of unregulated market forces.