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Henrietta Foster / 17 Jul 2023
Tommy in the Sky with Pain
The Stephen Tomlin Story
What is it about the Bloomsbury Set that keeps us so enthralled? Beats me. But there is an ever-growing, insatiable interest.(...)
Josh White / 26 Jun 2023
Animal Drag as Gender Hysteria
Britain’s Tabloids Get Dirty
Kids all over the UK identify as cats, dogs, horses, and sometimes even the moon.
Joel Schalit / 20 Feb 2023
Retro World
The Battleground’s Spring Books List
Protests and war belong together. Not because they reflect each other but because conflict stirs the pot. Not just about itself but everything else.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 14 Dec 2022
The Sexism of Everyday Life
Jeanne Dielman, Directed by Chantal Akerman
When Sight and Sound’s once-a-decade poll about the greatest films of all time was published two weeks ago, people were shocked to see Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai de Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles at the top.(...)
Krystle Thorpe / 04 Aug 2022
No Apologies to Chris Rock
What Will Smith Should Have Said
Everyone has something to say about the violence at the 2022 Oscars, whose host called “the greatest night in the history of television”.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 25 Nov 2021
Past and Present
Pip Blom’s Welcome Break
Although it’s easy to list Pip Blom’s forebears, especially the Riot Grrl-inflected pop of the 1990s, their second album Welcome Break still sounds like it was made from scratch. (...)
Josh White / 15 Mar 2021
Harry, Meghan and Sarah Everard
The Tory Hate Machine
Somehow Piers Morgan became the big story of last week. This wasn’t a natural outcome.(...)