Filmmakers have a long history of raking over crashes and exposing the iniquity of markets.
We learned about the absurdities of surviving on £3.24 a day, and the iniquities of unpaid caring.
(Sheen came into contact with Soering's writing on Catholic theology and the iniquities of the prison system).
He improvises a verse about Tony Blair's resignation and the iniquities of the smoking ban, topping it off with a rhymed invitation to his after-show party.
To the contrary: his recent fulminations about Islamic sharia law sweeping America and the iniquities of Barack Obama's "secular socialist machine" suggest that he sees the ultra-right of the party as his key to the nomination.
Serge's conversation runs through modern slavery, voodoo, cuisine, art, music and the iniquities of Minustah, the UN stabilisation mission that still exerts a powerful influence in the country.
And there is nothing on the horrors of that era that matches his vivid, first-hand account of the bloody suppression of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989.The book accurately describes China's precipitate abandonment of socialism in all but name by Deng Xiaoping and his successors, and the iniquities of the unfettered capitalism that has replaced it.
The new Archbishop of Canterbury had barely blown the dust off the doilies at Lambeth Palace before laying into the government on their indifference to deepening poverty, stepping quietly out of the way of equal marriage reform, savaging Atos and the iniquities of the work capability assessment and tearing a strip off Lord Freud for demonising benefit claimants and food bank users.
Against the running backdrop of the miners' strike, poll tax riots, mass unemployment and conflict, political stand-up had its 80s-early 90s heyday in this claustrophobic cellar, with Mark Steel, Jeremy Hardy et al raging against the injustices of Thatcherism and the iniquities of the world at large.
