Charlie Bertsch / 22 Nov 2023
Communist Sentimental
Vittorio de Sica’s Bicycle Thieves
Vittorio De Sica’s 1948 film Bicycle Thieves is hard to watch but easy to rewatch.(...)
Class
John Foster / 23 Sep 2023
Class or Identity Politics?
The Brenner-Riley Controversy
It sparked a revolution, at least in terms of debate, that was years in the making.(...)
Josh White / 01 May 2023
Britain on May Day
Angry and Directionless
It’s not often we get May Day off in the UK. It’s only when it happens to be the first Monday of the month that we get the bank holiday.(...)
Josh White / 19 Sep 2022
Capitalists Never Lie
Why Read The Financial Times
Above the entrance of Bracken House, sits the face of Winston Churchill, set in a gold sunburst on an astrological clock.(...)
Josh White / 04 Jul 2022
Enemies Within
The Press vs. the Workers
Not everyone can handle TV appearances, least of all on live TV shows. No one expected RMT leader Mick Lynch to do so well in televised clashes with broadcast journalists.(...)
Josh White / 04 Oct 2021
Punching Down
UK Tabloids and the Poor
The Tories are cutting benefits again. (...)
John Foster / 09 Oct 2020
The Return of the White Republic
David Roediger’s The Sinking Middle Class
The middle class is the quintessential American category. It’s of foundational significance, although it is only since the Reagan era that it has had its current degree of political cachet.(...)
Josh White / 17 Feb 2020
Destroying the Labour Party
The False Promise of Centrism
“You can’t change things if you’re in opposition,” says the centrist dad. “Labour has to get back into power to help the majority of people. That means we have to appeal to the centre-ground. Otherwise, you’re just a protest party.”(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 20 Nov 2019
Council Estate of Mind
The Case for Slowthai
Whenever a record receives as much attention as British rapper Slowthai’s debut LP Nothing Great About Britain has, it can be hard to hear. (...)