The Guardian recently ran an article on plagiarism in poetry by Will Storr. Andy Croft, author of two very widely read and influential articles on Culture Matters, The Privatisation of Poetry and Poetry Belongs to... Continue reading
Mark Perryman of Philosophy Football criticises the commercialisation of football, and explores the possibilities of fan culture as a social movement. During the international break, a mini-spat... Continue reading
The Trouble with Monsters by Chris Norris Quick way with monsters: send a hero outFor mortal combat: sometimes he’ll prevailAnd kill the beast, while other times he’ll... Continue reading
Sarah Alderton gives a clear and detailed account of how the profit motive affects our culture of eating and drinking. Fat, salt and sugar are used to make... Continue reading
Daniel Clarkson Fisher reviews Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk, and discusses the moral obligations of the artist, the WW2 combat genre, and the potential for a ‘truly radical flowering’... Continue reading
Greg Godels traces John Coltrane’s revolutionary music against its 60s background of class conflict and Black liberation struggles. John Coltrane died fifty years ago this past July.... Continue reading
Michael Roberts reviews the recently released Dunkirk. Taught to children in schools up and down the country, the evacuation of Dunkirk is ingrained into the very culture... Continue reading
Jenny Farrell takes us through one of the greatest political artworks ever, Picasso’s Guernica. There are a handful of pictures that may be said to be almost... Continue reading
Keith Flett gets the round in again, tracing the political impact of Mrs. T on bright fined beer with his usal wit and clarity (geddit?). It’s not... Continue reading
Mike Sanders writes about Shelley ‘the Chartist poet’ as a catalyst for working class creativity, how he envisioned a communist society, and how the privileged classes refused... Continue reading