What Shall it Profit You, Starz, Hulu and Trump?
Every time I try reluctantly to accept that my Buffy -related saga's time has come and gone ( that's the lost story arc, Dear Miss Landau and the Dru Quartet ), something else seems to happen to make sure it stays dead and buried (a bit like a fledgling vampire, really) rather than - oh, I don't know - revitalising a faded piece of intellectual property in a new and unexpected manner, bringing jobs and employment to at least one small part of what's left of Hollywood and giving the fans what they may actually want. This time, it's ESTA. ESTA stands for electronic system of travel authorisation and is the means by which myself and others from forty-two countries worldwide are able to visit the States for ninety days without a visa. The Trump administration in, I think, its latest paroxysm of racism and intolerance intends to make the amount of hoops we have to go through to get the ESTA visa waiver increasingly intricate and probably impossible completely and corre...