The Residents
Few bands can be described as “marmite” as much as The Residents. Spanning a career of over fifty years and countless recordings, they...
The only thing worse than politicians trying to be “down with the kids” (other than the phrase “down with the kids”) is right-wing Tories...
Bernie Gunther stands among the most distinctive figures in late-twentieth-century crime fiction — a detective forged in the fire of Weimar Germany, tempered by...
The brilliant Luke Wright with an equally brilliant poem summing up the flaggers.
Luke Wright is a prominent figure in the contemporary British poetry scene,...
In Retrospect, We Could Have Avoided World War 2 and the Holocaust. What Would You Have Done?
The Shot Not Taken: A Moment That Haunts...
Understanding the comedy of Lenny Bruce, one has to remember that it was a time when people had a reasonable understanding of what truth...
These days, most music consumption is done through digital streaming platforms (DSPs), like Spotify, Apple Music, etc. I mean… why the hell not?! It...
In our contemporary discourse, criticism of Islam is frequent and often vociferous. It focuses on issues of religious texts, social policies, and the actions...
The two poles of politics often come into conflict on cultural issues. We end up with a Manichean debate in which only two outcomes...
In the noisy theatre of British politics, accusations of "cancel culture" are now routinely traded across the despatch box. Yet, while the term is...
