Mark Perryman defends the ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans at Villa Park At ‘best’ this from Sir Keir is ill-informed, at worst it is naked and... Continue reading
A Brief History of Sentimentality, Bloomsbury, ISBN 978-1-3994-21881-1, £20 Soft is both a hard and a slippery book to review. It is interesting, though, to observe Ferdinand Mount, third Baronet... Continue reading
By Lydia Unsworth There are flags all over the high street. Union Jacks, St George’s flags, and ones printed with text such as VE Day and VJ... Continue reading
Live literature every third Sunday Sunday 19 October, 5:00pm, RESPONDERS Gale Burns, Keith Jarrett, Selina Rodrigues – Three poets of different ethnicities, backgrounds, social class and sexuality... Continue reading
Gaza: The Story of a Genocide, edited by Fatima Bhutto and Sonia Faleiro. Verso, 2025 By Jon Baldwin In a recent paper, Pre-Emptive/ Neo-Fascist Capitalism, Marxism and... Continue reading
By Nick Moss We started a poetry and open mic night at the Cockpit Theatre in Marylebone, London NW8 after we organized a “farewell festival” for Smokestack... Continue reading
St Francis of Assisi Church stained glass window, Churches Complex, Dubai By Alan McGuire “The Church is the only society that exists for the benefit of those... Continue reading
Workers at the brewery in House of Guinness By Dennis Broe Steven Knight’s House of Guinness, about the famous brewery which in the latter half of the... Continue reading
Indigenous radio, a victim of the cuts By Dennis Broe In the old days, when protests were allowed, a popular slogan on any march was “Don’t Mourn,... Continue reading
By Jenny Farrell Fun fact: Guinness, the quintessential Irish drink, exported around the world, originated in the working-class pubs of early eighteenth-century London. Known as porter, this... Continue reading