Liam Denning is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering energy. A former banker, he edited the Wall Street Journal’s Heard on the Street column and wrote the Financial Times’s Lex column.

Dystopian movies serve as powerful warnings of extremism and corruption in society. Films like "Children of Men" and "District 9" critique xenophobia and societal collapse. Directors like Terry ...

With demagogues, oligarchs and dictators rising like the sea levels, it seems that state powers around the globe are increasingly being used to benefit the few rather than the many, putting the ...

Trump’s obsession with Canadian annexation has quickly gone from an awkward joke to a serious security concern. With more tariffs due April 2, Canadian leader Mark Carney has said Canadians ...

BBC iPlayer is now streaming a gripping dystopian action thriller by an acclaimed director. Set in 2027, Children of Men sees a world on the brink of collapse due to two decades of human infertility.

HOW DO YOU concoct a plausible fictional near-future, in which people’s reliance on technology has gone too far? If you read “The Dream Hotel”, a gripping new novel, you can discern one recipe.

A gripping dystopian action thriller with stellar direction is set to be available for free viewing in the UK. The film, Children of Men, is set in 2027 and depicts a world on the verge of ...

Where it diverges from its predecessors is the room it creates for hope. In Snowpiercer, a bleakly comic eco-dystopia, the oppressive society in which the film is set is overthrown when a train ...

According to The Times, citing sources within the British government, the United Kingdom is considering relocating migrants whose asylum applications have been rejected to Balkan countries ...

The CBC radio commentator over the weekend chirped optimistically of the latest presidential perfidy, “Well, (U.S. President Donald) Trump won’t be around in four years, so…” *Billed as $4 ...

Polish directing duo Helena Ganjalyan and Bartosz Szpak make an auspicious debut with this enigmatic drama about a trio of young women whose comfort comes at a cost. Appealing primarily to ...

TV enthusiasts are being pointed towards a lesser-known dystopian drama, touted as more terrifying than Black Mirror. First aired by the BBC and HBO in 2019, the limited series was crafted by ...