I'd say the cognitive dissonance of 'left-wing Nazis' isn't quite as huge as 'Russian communists who borrow the iconography of a regime which killed 40 million of their countrymen'.

Thank God you gave us advance notice.

Ten million people live in Moscow. That's larger than the population of several countries - but definitely not genocide.

It has a genuine political movement called the 'National Bolsheviks' whose logo is a Nazi flag defaced with a hammer and sickle.

I don't think the Russian people were in a position to 'enable' anything in the 1980s, and I highly doubt that even the KGB has the deaths of 'millions of people' on its hand.

I mean, sure, as far as UKIP and the far-right go and certain hand-wringing elements of the Maily Telegraph opinion columns and the Conservative Party backbenches, but it should be noted that it was a right-wing government (admittedly in coalition with the Liberal Democrats) that introduced the law which approved…

Anyone making flippant remarks about nuking Moscow should probably familiarise themselves with the 1990s, which was such a traumatic experience for Russians that it's amazing they're only led by someone as self-evidently awful as Putin.

Except that exhaustive research (or even reading the Wikipedia page) will reveal that, in the words of the man himself, Nineteen Eighty-Four "was based chiefly on communism, because that is the dominant form of totalitarianism, but I was trying chiefly to imagine what communism would be like if it were firmly rooted…

I feel that Idiocracy is 'liberal' insofar as it represented much of the disquiet about popular support for Bush despite him being 'stupid', which led to much concern about how intellectuals could no longer connect with Middle America.

I saw a copies of Wuthering Heights in a ferry bookshop which had not only been Twilightified but also defaced (literally and proverbially) with a huge badge saying "Bella and Edward's Favourite Book!"

I think what this article highlights is that people are too rooted in the present to make effective predictions for the future, so we end up simply rendering the future as a more excessive version of the present.

I really hate this "don't listen to the critics, find out for yourself" logic because it's actually rather elitist.

I really hope all its dialogue was transcribed in a thick Scottish accent.

How did we get this far into the conversation without anyone mentioning the infamous incident when Miriam Margoyles regaled will.i.am with the tale of her tugging off a soldier at the Edinburgh Tattoo?

A decade is the difference between Obama being elected age 47 and Obama being elected age 37. One is plausible; one beggars belief.

The president of the United States is not exclusively elected from the College of Cardinals, a body based on seniority whose majority membership tend to be octo- or even nonagenarians, and whose youngest entrant is a sprightly 55 and about as likely to become pope at that age - let alone anything younger - as Anton…

I refuse to believe that any one - let alone the vast majority of people - didn't realise that Tarkin was CGI. He was just about passable when he was stationery and shrouded in darkness, but the moment he jerked into movement he looked like a Thunderbird puppet with Peter Cushing's skin stretched over him.

Trump is no neo-liberal. Neo-liberalism is an economic system in which the markets operate with minimal - if any - intervention from the state, and where economic decision-making is delegated to technocrats. A neo-liberal wouldn't, say, lean on a particular company to keep their workforce in Indiana, nor would they…

Mohd isn't a name; it's a Malaysian honorific.

Maybe not by yourself, but I've met more than a few people who grossly inflated Clinton's perceived hawkishness in order to give themselves a moral get-out-of-jail-free card for Trump. Naturally, they elided over the fact that Trump has surrounded himself with a coterie of retired generals, one of whom appears…