The rebellion of the red lip
When I was young, I would watch my mother getting ready in the mornings. I would sit on the side of the tub in her bathroom swinging my legs and…
Literature and its Influence on Protest
One of my English Literature role models is a Cambridge academic named Dr Jason Scott-Warren. I have met him twice (once by fluke coincidence when we happened to be interrailing…
Cult Column: If….
Lindsay Anderson’s If…. (1968) is a somewhat under-appreciated masterpiece. Produced in the midst of the sixties’ counterculture movement, it explores themes of rebellion in a way that is both evocative…