Cask Ale Week, backed by Cask Marque, is an annual promotion of cask ale which runs in early Autumn each year. Its aim is to get the... Continue reading
The poetry world hates poor poets. Discuss if you’ve ever been told your poem has been accepted for publication (hurrah!) but there’s no fee (how do I... Continue reading
The current implosion at RTÉ is not merely a short-term issue of corporate governance and public accountability. Its provenance goes a long way back in the history... Continue reading
Hollywood writers and actors are on strike, the first time both unions have been on strike at the same time since 1960. It’s thrown the industry into... Continue reading
Business ontology was described by Mark Fisher: “Over the past thirty years, capitalist realism has successfully installed a ‘business ontology’ in which it is simply obvious that... Continue reading
Ed Edwards asks how does a dramatist create realistic characters in the context of Empire and the end of Empire? When I first became aware of the horrors... Continue reading
As England and Australia continue the age-old clashes for the Ashes this summer, one name always hovers over the collective psyche of both teams as they take... Continue reading
Last year, I wrote a book that disappeared. I’m not sure why, but it might have had something to do with the culture wars. If this is... Continue reading
Dennis Broe, in the first of to articles, describes how corporate media in all its forms downplays climate destruction. Above: New York skyline, with soot Fredric Jameson’s famous... Continue reading
Wedges Some thoughts on solidarity, democratic deliberation, and class struggle by David Betteridge Cartoon by Bob Starrett I Whoever is without fault among us, let them be the... Continue reading