National Right Makeover
NatCon in London
Arriving at the Emmanuel Centre, I was confronted by loud classical music of the bombastic, patriotic variety.(...)
NatCon in London
Arriving at the Emmanuel Centre, I was confronted by loud classical music of the bombastic, patriotic variety.(...)
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
When The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover first hit the screen in 1989, it inspired the sort of intense reactions normally restricted to horror films.(...)
Free Market: The History of an Idea, by Jacob Soll
It’s as though the 1980s never happened. For many Gen Xers like me, until the 2008 financial crisis, the free market was the only game in town.(...)
Web of Lies/Death Won’t Even Satisfy, by AMMO
On their debut full-length Web of Lies/Death Won’t Even Satisfy, AMMO reminds us that hardcore punk can embrace more musical diversity than we tend to think.(...)
The End of the USSR
The Liz Truss Plunger
If Prime Minister Liz Truss is the joke, Britain is the punchline.(...)
Two Books About Punk and Politics
Ronald Reagan was elected to a second term as America’s president in November 1984.(...)
JG Ballard’s Science Fiction Future
Walking around Shepperton, you would have no idea this area was home to one of the greatest English writers of the twentieth century.(...)
America in Afghanistan
When William Westmorland led American forces in Vietnam, he kept a copy of Bernard Fall’s devastating critique of the French war in Indochina, The Street Without Joy, on his night table.(...)
The America Problem