Archive - Rupert Russell’s Writings

PRICE WARS - How Responsible is Wall Street for the Cause & Consequences of the War in Ukraine?

New articles I wrote for Tribune and Jacobin try to answer this question.

Aug 14, 2022 •

June 2022

PRICE WARS - How to draw a 'crisis picture'?

Thinking about Adam Tooze's Krisenbilder and making Price Wars

Jun 28, 2022 •

March 2022

PRICE WARS - Act Now to Stop a Decade of Disorder

In The Guardian, I outline the cresting wave of commodity-driven chaos, and what we can do to stop it.

Mar 20, 2022 •

February 2022

PRICE WARS - How the Commodity Markets Made the Chaos in Ukraine

Putin's aggression confirms the predictive model of PRICE WARS - that real world chaos is created, spread, and amplified by the chaos in the commodity…

Feb 27, 2022 •

PRICE WARS - OUT NOW

I couldn’t help but wonder... could a book about the chaotic 2010s say much about the coming 2020s?

Feb 10, 2022 •

October 2021

PRICE WARS - Available for Pre-Order

My investigation into the commodities markets has been commodified

Oct 12, 2021 •

February 2021

PRICE WARS - Steaming on ARTE

Price Wars documentary airs on ARTE, available to stream too.

Feb 8, 2021 •

September 2020

My father Ken Russell, the 'domestic' director

From the archives… published originally in The Independent shortly after my father died. Why do you deliberately set out to shock your audience?", a…

Sep 17, 2020 •

July 2020

Rupert's Writings

A eclectic blog on creating films and books.

Jul 5, 2020

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