Josh White / 28 Mar 2022
The Opposition Newspaper
Morning Star and the UK Left
Walking down Beachy Road, you’ll miss William Rust House if you don’t know the address.(...)
London
Josh White / 14 Mar 2022
Lord of Siberia
Boris Johnson’s Oligarch
Walking into Hampton Court Park, you might expect to get away from the hectic flux of London. You’d be right. (...)
Josh White / 28 Feb 2022
Left Against Putin
The Downing Street March
Walking up Whitehall towards Downing Street, the demonstrators flew the flag of Ukraine and shouted “Stop Putin! Stop the war!”(...)
Josh White / 04 Oct 2021
Punching Down
UK Tabloids and the Poor
The Tories are cutting benefits again. (...)
Charlie Bertsch / 29 Sep 2021
Grenfell Dub
Fire, by The Bug
Fire, the new album by The Bug, hits hard, even harder than its rather distant predecessors, London Zoo (2008) and Pressure (2003). But it also hits soft. (...)
Josh White / 02 Aug 2021
Government-Approved Media
Meet the Westminster Lobby
We’re all familiar with the sight of reporters standing outside Parliament, doing their talking heads thing.(...)
Joel Schalit / 09 Jul 2021
Everything is Field Recording
Learning From the BBC
Women were screaming. Gunfire echoed in the distance. A British accented voice drifted in and out, periodically commenting on the upheaval.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 30 Jun 2021
The Art of Listening
This is What Europe Sounds Like, by Joel Schalit
This is What Europe Sounds Like makes for uneasy listening. Not because of strident guitars, disturbing lyrics, or aggressive atonality, but because it refuses to meet the expectation of music at all.(...)
Duncan Simpson / 25 May 2020
Life Under Lockdown
London Calling (COVID-19 Remix)
I've been very lucky in lockdown. I'm on the first floor of a small block, not two dozen floors up, shut into a little box where the windows don't open and the lift is always broken.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 13 May 2020
The Power of Failing
Lorenzo Senni’s Scacco Matto
Scacco Matto sounds like a mosaic of Europop hits from the early 1980s. The album is made from pieces so tiny, their arrangement so abstract, that it transcends the referentiality of so much postmodern music.(...)