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Global: Charlie Brooker | guardian.co.uk
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Charlie Brooker is a Guardian columnist. He currently writes Screen burn, a G2 comment piece every Monday and he produces, writes and presents Screenwipe for the BBC
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Behold: the Marvel Avengers Assemble 3D experience | Charlie Brooker

Its as good as superhero films are ever likely to get, which is excellent news because they can stop making them nowLast Monday, because Ive been feeling out of the loop, I resolved to catch the new ...

20 may 12

Charlie Brooker: When you lose touch with popular culture, its tough to get back

I havent seen The Voice, cant name anyone in Britains Got Talent and dont use Facebook any more. This will never doWhen a monk takes a vow of silence, is he still allowed to post messages on the inte...

13 may 12

So you want to get elected? Then think like a clown. Or a penguin | Charlie Brooker

As last weeks elections proved, when it comes to the crunch, the public prefers penguins to politiciansSo huge swaths of the electorate seem to have finally decided that peevish gump David Cameron is...

06 may 12

Sumo: martial art or fight in a pub doorway?

To some people Japans national sport looks like a scrap between two men in nappies. Would a live sumo tournament in Tokyo change Charlie Brookers mind?The Japanese have successfully enthralled Wester...

02 may 12

What is the difference between The Hobbit and the news? Not as much as there should be | Charlie Br...

News reports are looking more like movies – and movies are looking more like news reports. How are we supposed to tell them apart?Quick, close your eyes for a second and picture the 1920s. What did y...

29 apr 12

Not excited by the Olympics? Then thank God for the sponsors | Charlie Brooker

British people dont appear to care about the Games, so its handy there are the Olympic sponsors to help us get into the spirit of thingsThe Olympic games trundle ever closer, and already you can smel...

22 apr 12

Charlie Brooker: Some people are gay in space. Get over it

Video game players can now identify their characters as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. Which is wonderful, unless youre a sad homophobeIt must be awful, being a homophobe. Having to spend all...

15 apr 12

For one week only, Im allowed to say it: I get babies | Charlie Brooker

Call me dense or cold or both, but I wasnt anticipating the wave of euphoria Im experiencing now that Ive become a fatherLast week, I became a parent. Can I tell you what Im not going to do? Im not g...

01 apr 12

Charlie Brooker: The future of the NHS? Cough up, fleshbags

Introducing competition to the health service will, so the theory goes, improve it. And it doubtless would, if businesses behaved like selfless nunsWhod want to be Andrew Lansley right about now? Hes...

18 mar 12

Charlie Brooker: The Sun needs to reinvent itself – less bullying, more of the zany fun of Twitter

The paper called me a shouty third-rate TV presenter, which seems firm but fairSo then, witch-hunted tip-top soaraway tabloid the Sun will soon be available in a sizzling Sunday edition. Turns out th...

19 feb 12

Im all for sharing, but why the online obsession with revealing every detail of your life? | Charli...

Facebook and Spotify automatically want to share my every waking action, so that Im like a character in The Sims. Hover the cursor over my head and watch that stat feed scrollSharing. Now theres a ba...

29 jan 12

Charlie Brooker: the dark side of our gadget addiction

We are addicted to gadgets – but what are their side-effects? In his new drama series, Black Mirror, Charlie Brooker explores the dark side of our love affair with technologyEvery life includes signi...

01 dec 11

Charlie Brooker: It must be great having a passion for sport. Which is why Im going to develop one

Cricket? Unwatchable. Rugby? Chaotic. Athletics? No. Just noSo the other day I nonchalantly tweeted a link to a "Save BBC4" petition. Why? Because what with the licence- fee freeze, BBC4s ran...

04 sep 11

Poor A-levels? Dont despair. Just lie on job application forms | Charlie Brooker

OK, it may be dishonest, but its cheaper than spending £9,000 on a university courseThis ones for underperforming students, and anyone who got rubbish exam results. The rest of you can walk away. Go ...

21 aug 11

Charlie Brooker: Bring back hanging? Only a wuss would want to do that

If you want to reinstate the death penalty, go for a means of execution that provides maximum agony and maximum publicityThe death penalty debate refuses to die – a bit like 17-year-old Willie Franci...

07 aug 11

Charlie Brooker | Lets think outside the box here: maybe blue-sky thinking is nonsense

Steve Hilton, David Camerons wacky policy chief, is famous in government for his crazy ideas. Its just a pity theyre all so crapIf you can judge a man by the company he keeps, David Cameron is a pinb...

31 jul 11

The news coverage of the Norway mass-killings was fact-free conjecture | Charlie Brooker

Lets be absolutely clear, it wasnt experts speculating, it was guessers guessing – and they were terribleI went to bed in a terrible world and awoke inside a worse one. At the time of writing, detail...

24 jul 11

Charlie Brooker | Rupert Murdoch: what will MPs do without someone to fear?

Britains politicians have reacted to Murdochs troubles like medieval villagers realising that God may not existYou know the liberating feeling when someone unpopular leaves the room and everyone brea...

17 jul 11

Charlie Brooker: The last News of the World was downright odd

The final edition of the paper was so rose-tinted that you could almost smell the petalsToday I bought the News of the World. Last week Id joined in with the obligatory Twitter hashtag-boycott-pass-t...

10 jul 11

The Ed Miliband loop and the media reality deficit | Charlie Brooker

Politicians and interviewers are locked in a pantomime. For sanitys sake, we must interveneBy now, theres a good chance youve seen the video of Ed Miliband using almost precisely the same words over ...

03 jul 11

I almost felt a glimmer of jealousy about not being at Glastonbury, until I remembered the mud | Ch...

And while staying at home, I learned that BBC2 sometimes still shows Pages from CeefaxSo, Glastonbury. How was yours? Mine was pretty good. I was standing just off-stage when Jessie J encouraged that...

26 jun 11

So they want to vajazzle Television Centre? Id rather they just knocked it down | Charlie Brooker

Rather than tart up the BBCs Television Centre with a load of unimaginative creative renewal space, it would be much better to demolish it and flog the bricks on eBayAs buildings go, its not even ver...

19 jun 11

Charlie Brooker: If the Daily Mail is so worried about the sexualisation of children, all they have...

Starlets and sex, sex and starlets – all of it on plain view on the Daily Mail website which, to the best of my knowledge, has no age restrictions in placeHey you – what are you doing to halt the sex...

13 jun 11

Charlie Brooker: If the internet gave free back rubs, people would complain when it stopped because...

Spotifys problem is that no one wants to pay for anything they access via a computerIts incredible how quickly we humans can develop a languid sense of entitlement over even the simplest of things. F...

06 jun 11

Charlie Brooker: Why idolise footballers? Its like living in a world where half of us worship shire...

Society rewards athletes with astronomical sums. Its wonky and demented, but thats the way it isThe worst thing about this ongoing kerfuffle over superinjunctions is that it keeps forcing me to conte...

30 may 11

Charlie Brooker: Hollywood shuns intelligent entertainment. The games industry doesnt. Guess whos w...

LA Noire and Portal 2 are video games that challenge the mind instead of the thumbsDo you remember the days when you used to be able to head out to the cinema safe in the knowledge that even if the f...

23 may 11

Charlie Brooker: Winning a superinjunction no longer guarantees super-anonymity. In fact, it delive...

Most cases were learning about arent shocking corporate coverups but dreary shag-and-tellsIve been in India of late, and spent most of my time not looking at the internet, not reading newspapers, and...

16 may 11

Charlie Brookers royal wedding TV Go Home

What the nation will be watching on the big day8am Extreme Dress ConjectureTop scientists take turns speculating about Kate Middletons dress, bypassing trite discussion of its potential colour and st...

27 apr 11

Charlie Brooker: The AV campaigners have created a stupidity whirlpool that engulfs any loose molec...

Both sides are treating the public with outright contemptWith not long to go until the AV referendum, the waters are muddier than ever. Its confusing. One minute the anti-camp claims a vote for AV wo...

25 apr 11

Charlie Brooker: The real victims of the phone-hacking scandal are the tabloid hacks

Their days of making the world a worse place with ease are overWeek 396, and the phone-hacking affair continues, prompting onlookers to wonder how much more pus can possibly seep out. Rather than lan...

18 apr 11

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