Ross Bradshaw keeps calm while reviewing Owen Hatherley’s latest book of essays on nostalgia. This set of essays starts with the well-known image, in Gill Sans type,... Continue reading
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David Betteridge introduces some of the cartoons of Bob Starrett, the official cartoonist of the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Work-in of 1971-2. When we look at Starrett’s cartoons,... Continue reading
Burnsiana Scroll back from the cosmos,To inner space.The mind’s micro-structureNanoscientists mind-mappingThe brain’s hundred billion neurons,Its thousand trillion connections,Processing 0.1 quadrillion thoughts per second.Vastly more sophisticatedThan any computer.What... Continue reading
My word you can’t know Burns unless you can hate the Lockharts and all the estimable bourgeoisand upper classes as he really did – the narrow gutted... Continue reading
David Betteridge presents two poems to help you enjoy an alternative Burns supper. At An Alternative Burns Supper His short life and his fertilitylift his perfection... Continue reading
Phil Brett looks analyses crime fiction from a socialist perspective. You don’t need to be a professor of English to know that crime fiction is very popular... Continue reading
Paul Robeson died 40 years ago this month. Gerald Horne writes about the great singer, actor and communist, victimised by McCarthyism and the US apartheid system…….and what ‘the... Continue reading
In the first of a series of articles on Chartist poetry and working class struggle, Dr. Mike Sanders traces the background to its development. Andy Croft in... Continue reading
On Tuesday 15th December, 2015 Christie’s Auction House held a sale of property that had belonged to the late British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. The sale realised... Continue reading
They were gathered together in the rehearsal room – actors, directors, backstage workers for an out of the ordinary meeting. Alf Simpson was there, in his 40s... Continue reading
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