London
John Foster / 03 Mar 2023
Britain Gives Up
Post-Brexit Ireland
The end of Ireland’s Brexit crisis shouldn’t be noteworthy. As Fintan O’Toole noted in The Guardian, the Windsor Framework could have been agreed upon two years ago.(...)
Josh White / 07 Nov 2022
Still a Tory Tabloid
The Daily Star Gets Veg
It’s not every night that a national tabloid beams a picture of a lettuce onto Parliament. This image may be more memorable than Liz Truss’s actual policies.(...)
Josh White / 24 Oct 2022
Tabloid Party Publishing
Remembering Modern Review
The Groucho Club is a Soho institution. It’s an old haunt for celebrities, artists and journalists, and the kind of people who want to mix with them.(...)
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.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 10 Aug 2022
Post-War Youth
400 Blows After Netflix
François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows is one of cinema’s all-time classics, the 1959 film that demonstrated how deftly a new generation of French critics could transform themselves into the filmmakers of la nouvelle vague.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 21 Jul 2022
Sonic Anti-Colonialism
Escapology, by Kode9
Kode9’s new record, Escapology: Music from Darien, is a strange document, yet all the more compelling for that strangeness.(...)
Josh White / 18 Jul 2022
Last Days of Neoliberalism
London 2012 Nostalgia
Take the Overground to Hackney Wick. Get off there and walk into the nearby maze of decay and graffiti. Believe it or not, this is not far from the regeneration hub of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.(...)
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.(...)
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. (...)