“Rethink, reskill, reboot”: An arrogant, ignorant and belittling threat to the arts
Like many of us living in the slowly boiling pot that is 2020, you are likely to have also despaired at the government’s most recent belittling of creativity, independent thinking,…
Poem of the Week: Having a Coke with You
To read Frank O’Hara’s ‘Having a Coke with You’ is to infatuate yourself with the beautiful impermanence of the everyday. Included in his 1965 collection Lunch Poems – a series…
Queen & Slim
Melina Matsoukas’ Queen & Slim, released in UK cinemas on January 31, seems almost made for going viral. Centred around the aftermath of violent encounter between a white police officer…
The quiet radicalism of ‘they’
As 31st December ushered in the arrival of a new decade, an inevitable onslaught of think-pieces and ‘best of’ lists have dominated media channels seeking to analyse the 2010s and…
Land of the free? Voter surpression in the US
With next year’s presidential election drawing ever closer, and impeachment proceedings going forward against current leader Donald Trump, American citizens are facing existential questions about the nature of their democracy.…
The Grenfell Tower inquiry: A continuing search for justice
Spectators of this week’s Prime Minister’s Questions were, unsurprisingly, greeted with the familiar sight of Britain’s highest elected officials jeering across the Commons Chamber. While such behaviour has become an…
Redefining a hybrid mode of democracy, is it possible?
Another day, another Brexit-related constitutional crisis. This week saw the Prime Minister Boris Johnson (who is noticeably without a mandate) prorogue parliament — trying to stop Members of Parliament from…
Redefining a hybrid mode of democracy, is it possible?
Another day, another Brexit-related constitutional crisis. This week saw the Prime Minister Boris Johnson (who is noticeably without a mandate) prorogue parliament — trying to stop Members of Parliament from…