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.(...)
England
John Foster / 28 May 2021
Rage Against the Machines
Breaking Things at Work, by Gavin Mueller
Technology is so thoroughly imbricated in our lives that questioning it has become taboo. Particularly on the left, where it's synonymous with the emancipation of labour.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 27 Jan 2021
The Impossibility of Being Original
The Buzzcocks’ Complete UA Singles 1977-1980
Next to the Sex Pistols and the Clash, the Buzzcocks were probably the most important British punk band. And, although they never attained the international notoriety of those other groups, they were in many ways the most influential of all.(...)
Josh White / 06 Jan 2020
Another England is Possible
The Problem With Patriotism
Labour’s devastating defeat has reopened an old debate about England’s future. Labour leadership contenders David Lammy and Rebecca Long-Bailey have issued calls for ‘civic nationalism’ and ‘progressive patriotism’.(...)