Josh White / 07 Feb 2023
Government Policy Advocate
The BBC and Austerity
Not every media organisation can bear criticism, even self-criticism, but others require it to keep going.(...)
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Charlie Bertsch / 25 Jan 2023
The Dub Perspective
Rob Smith’s Jungle Archive Collection 1 and 2
How can we think about music historically without turning it into a museum piece, a beautiful butterfly impaled on a pin? Bristol legend Rob Smith’s new Jungle Archive Collection 1 and Jungle Archive Collection 2 pose this question forcefully.(...)
Josh White / 23 Jan 2023
Guilty as Charged
Nigel Farage’s Legacy
Brexit will turn three on the last day of January, over six years since the 2016 referendum kickstarted Britain’s race to the bottom.(...)
Josh White / 05 Dec 2022
Soviet Collapse, National Decline
Russia 1985–1999, by Adam Curtis
Adam Curtis is a collagist who deals with ideas and their emotional impact.(...)
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 / 17 Oct 2022
Reflections on The Labour Files
Al Jazeera English and UK Media
Al Jazeera is the only mainstream news outlet that would make a Labour Files.(...)
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.(...)
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 / 05 Jan 2022
The Toxic Tory
Boris Johnson’s Legacy
Boris Johnson will be out of power by 2023. He will be dragged out, kicking and screaming, by his own party.(...)