Dave Lordan adds his support to the boycott of apartheid Israel I am proud to be among the many Irish and Ireland-based artists from across creative disciplines... Continue reading
Fran Lock interviews Alan Morrison about Anxious Corporals, a polemical and poetic history of post-war working-class culture, which can be ordered here Fran Lock: Hi Alan, thanks for... Continue reading
Jenny Farrell reviews a new book on the fight to write by women writers in Ireland And perhaps, before literature dies, there will come a day when... Continue reading
Stuart Cartland on Conservative populism and anti-Woke TV: how the launch of GB News represents updated versions of familiar, tired tropes. GB News represents an updated version... Continue reading
Mike Sanders presents an appreciation of Tommy Jackson Thomas Alfred “Tommy” Jackson (1879 – 1955) has been described as “the most brilliant proletarian intellectual to come out... Continue reading
Mark Perryman has been reading up on the sport we’ve lost, and what sport might become, as what seems like a never-ending lockdown gradually eases Way back... Continue reading
Kimberley Reynolds describes how radical and transgressive circuses in twentieth-century children’s literature make the case for social and personal transformation. Above image: Family of Saltimbanques by Pablo Picasso, 1905 The... Continue reading
Keith Flett celebrates the key social role of the pub As we enter the New Year the Dry January campaign is once again active. It is a... Continue reading
Jim Aitken describes how so much of popular culture reflects and legitimises the values of the Tories and the ruling class. Image above: Downton Abbey There was... Continue reading