by Jennifer Johnson When the Council owns the building you live inyou may find that the front is detaching itself from the back,the underpinning needed too expensive... Continue reading
by Anne Irwin The world comes tumbling down When sense is toppled from its crown By tic-toc gasúns who give lip To the common citizenship, Their insecurities... Continue reading
After the spiritual, Mary had a baby By Janet Hatherley Set out from Nazareth, can’t get through Ninety miles to Bethlehem At Jalamah checkpoint Flanked by a... Continue reading
Brett Gregory: In today’s episode I’ll be discussing with Dr Laura Minor, Lecturer in Television Studies at the University of Salford, her extremely refreshing, sobering yet vital... Continue reading
destroying angel by Fran Lock this delicate supremacist, our cipher. tonightunder the fractioned moon, we wait. we arewaiting. for the angel, rankly warriored outof soft ground. or... Continue reading
What Three Words by Marilyn Longstaff A clever app pinpointing a precise location,useful, simple, when it works: if you understand,if there’s a decent signal. what3wordssaw we oldies... Continue reading
Around 60 people gathered last Saturday in Barnsley for the Communist Party’s first-ever conference on culture. Called ‘Class and Culture’, the conference was held in the inspiring... Continue reading
More than 1,000 authors have launched a boycott of Israeli publishers complicit in the dispossession of the Palestinian people, and Culture Matters supports the boycott. These writers... Continue reading
The following four poems are taken from the What Rough Beast anthology of poems about Trump and Trumpism, available to download here. Image above: Rise Up My Pretties, by Martin Gollan, who... Continue reading
Fair Play Cabaret With the backing of Equity, a cultural campaign is being launched which is centred around an ongoing series of events across the country. They... Continue reading