Commons image of Ahmed Samir Odeh By Nick Moss ONEAdministrative detention sounds like nothing much,Sounds like a formality, like a temporaryBureaucratic hold; like a traffic... Continue reading
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Commons image of Ahmed Samir Odeh By Nick Moss ONEAdministrative detention sounds like nothing much,Sounds like a formality, like a temporaryBureaucratic hold; like a traffic stop.Unless you’re…
Black Hole: Mining communities after the Miners’ Strike
Photograph: Joe Copley Gary Wilkinson introduces his exhibition BLACK HOLE about the socio-political-economic black hole the mining communities found themselves in following the miners’ strike. Following the…
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By Jeff Gallagher Your hunger makes you smack your lips –what will you take away? – and then yougape astonished at the menu:all he seems to serve…
A Man for All Treasons
Prime Minister Burnham: commons image By Chris Norris Eeny-meeny-miny-moe,Catch McSweeney by the toe;If he hollers, don’t let go –He’ll run to Mandy, Josh & Co!He’ll tell you:…
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Why can’t Women Be Priests?
Photo credit: Stephen Brash By Geoff Bottoms Why can’t women be priests? It’s a good question whose time has come, and in many parts of the universal…
Ten books that shook the World Cup
Philosophy Football’s Mark Perryman recommends ten reads that reveal the tournament at its best and worst.
Bass, Big Beer & popular demand
By Keith Flett Can a campaign from below, a democratic campaign on a social and cultural activity like beer drinking, have any effect? Yes, it can. The…
Neither Trump nor Infantino but International Footballism
Canada, Mexico, USA Mark Perryman explains how despite the worst efforts of FIFA and the White House, three hats symbolise what remains of a fans’ World Cup I am not…
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Photograph: Joe Copley Gary Wilkinson introduces his exhibition BLACK HOLE about the socio-political-economic black hole the mining communities found themselves in following the miners’ strike.... Continue reading
By Jeff Gallagher Your hunger makes you smack your lips –what will you take away? – and then yougape astonished at the menu:all he seems... Continue reading
Prime Minister Burnham: commons image By Chris Norris Eeny-meeny-miny-moe,Catch McSweeney by the toe;If he hollers, don’t let go –He’ll run to Mandy, Josh & Co!He’ll... Continue reading
Wikicommons image of pro-Palestinian and anti-Israeli protest By Willie Hershaw Brekkin intae a fousty auld lock-upand flingan a can o pentower some evil, pizzenous aeroplane... Continue reading
Il Quarto Stato / The Fourth Estate by Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo (1868-1907) By Adam Page There is a silence, almost physically heavy, which settles... Continue reading
Photo: Wikicommons By Chris Norris I’m Handy Andy, I’m your manWhen urgent jobs need doin’,Like sticking to the Osborne planTo save the rich from ruin.... Continue reading
Poster: ‘All militias are merged into the People’s Army’ Mark Perryman celebrates the fusion of progressive politics with visual art 90 years ago, on the... Continue reading
Book cover The Spanish Civil War erupted in late July, 1936. To mark the anniversary, Culture Matters has just published this book, an anthology of... Continue reading
Photo credit: Stephen Brash By Geoff Bottoms Why can’t women be priests? It’s a good question whose time has come, and in many parts of... Continue reading