Josh White / 19 Dec 2022
Britain on Strike
Sunak’s Austerity Crisis
The UK is a broken country. As 2022 comes to a close, the disaster couldn’t be any clearer.(...)
Neoliberalism
Charlie Bertsch / 26 Oct 2022
Transcending the Crisis
Streetlands, by Burial
Burial’s new Streetlands EP may be his most beautiful work to date.(...)
John Foster / 12 Aug 2022
Marx on Neoliberalism
Hyperculture, by Byung Chul-Han
Korean-German philosopher Byung Chul-Han is the quintessential postmodern figure. Having to come to Germany to study metallurgy, he switched fields and mastered the argot of German philosophy.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 28 Jul 2022
Remembering the End of the Millennium
Until the End of the World, Director’s Cut
The director’s cut of Wim Wenders’ 1991 film Until the End of the World is both a masterpiece and a remarkably astute commentary on its demise as an artistic category, shattered into fragments by the technological advances it both celebrates and repudiates.(...)
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.(...)
John Foster / 08 Jul 2022
Stupid and Dangerous
The Starmer Project: A Journey to the Right, by Oliver Eagleton
Boris Johnson has been a dead man walking for months. His resignation has been more of a relief than a shock.(...)
Josh White / 04 Jul 2022
Enemies Within
The Press vs. the Workers
Not everyone can handle TV appearances, least of all on live TV shows. No one expected RMT leader Mick Lynch to do so well in televised clashes with broadcast journalists.(...)
John Foster / 10 Jun 2022
Status Quo Apologist
Liberalism and Its Discontents, by Francis Fukuyama
Francis Fukuyama has a fraught relationship with history. In the late 1980s, he thought it was over.(...)
Josh White / 09 May 2022
Dead Centre
Blairism Without Blair
Twenty-five years after winning a landslide victory, Tony Blair haunts the Labour Party.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 08 Dec 2021
Rock Without Workers
Dignity of Labour, by The Ex
While The Ex’s post-punk has enjoyed several revivals since their 1980 debut, it always felt too fresh to be a forebear. (...)