Singer songwriter Sean Taylor has released a new song, Little Donny Returns, a sharp piece of musical commentary landing on the anniversary of January 6th, at a... Continue reading
Image courtesy of B’Tselem By Steve Pottinger Squint, and you can almost imagine itstretching out as far as any eye can see,curving unexpectedly round a parcel of... Continue reading
Politics is a concentrated expression of economics – Lenin. Image: public domain By Jim Aitken Venezuela’s oilis now America’s oil.That’s democracy! Continue reading
Image by the author ‘The Last Olive Tree’ is an allegorical short story by Dr. Abdulghani Al-Shuaibi that captures the endurance of the human spirit in Gaza... Continue reading
By Steve Pottinger This poem would like to make it clearthat it is here to subvert nothing whatsoever,here to challenge nothing at all, that it wouldnever ever... Continue reading
Image by Steev Burgess Over the Rainbow On any given morning that the worldslaps hate into its blue selfin a sedated town overlooked by factories,that contain their... Continue reading
The Class Ceiling conference, December 2025 By Elise Brown For a long time, conversations about inequality in classical music have existed at arm’s length from those who... Continue reading
Image: Wikimedia MarsOr nuances on a theme in W.H. Auden’s ‘September 1, 1939.’ Minister of war, wherever men have walkedYou have followed –Thermopylae, Austerlitz, Gaza, Ukraine –Ruddy... Continue reading
July 18th 2025 Ribs like tree branches wrack through the undergrowthCarving out a path of spikes and sharpnessThe shoes shred, leave traces of themselves on the shattered... Continue reading
In an era where art and society are being shaped by technology and globalisation, composer Jan Foote represents an interesting dialectic: one grounded in working-class Yorkshire roots... Continue reading