Margaret Thatcher

John Foster / 03 Nov 2023

When Left is Right

The Sahra Wagenknecht Experience

It was inevitable that Sahra Wagenknecht ditched Die Linke. From her perspective, she was the only thing keeping the party afloat.(...)

Brian Welsh’s Beats

Brian Welsh’s 2019 film Beats wants to revise our understanding of recent British history.(...)

Josh White / 15 May 2023

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.(...)

John Foster / 16 Dec 2022

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.(...)