Josh White / 15 May 2023
National Right Makeover
NatCon in London
Arriving at the Emmanuel Centre, I was confronted by loud classical music of the bombastic, patriotic variety.(...)
Ronald Reagan
Charlie Bertsch / 27 Apr 2023
The Horrors of Neoliberalism
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.(...)
John Foster / 16 Dec 2022
Fantasy Island
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.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 07 Dec 2022
Music for Drone Wars
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.(...)
Natalie Sarkic-Todd / 06 Sep 2022
Life Under Gorbachev
The End of the USSR
When Mikhail Gorbachev was appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR in 1985, I was studying Russian at university.(...)
Josh White / 05 Sep 2022
Race to the Bottom
The Liz Truss Plunger
If Prime Minister Liz Truss is the joke, Britain is the punchline.(...)
John Foster / 15 Oct 2021
More Than a Nostalgia Exercise
Two Books About Punk and Politics
Ronald Reagan was elected to a second term as America’s president in November 1984.(...)
Josh White / 20 Sep 2021
United Kingdom of Suburbs
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.(...)
John Foster / 10 Sep 2021
Born to Lose
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.(...)
Joel Schalit / 17 Jun 2020
George Floyd in Germany
The America Problem
All of the signs were in English. For most Berliners, the language is so common, they take it for granted. Especially for a city in which a quarter of the population is international.(...)