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Apr 18 2018

Simon Jay’s Anti-National Portrait Gallery

Simon Jay’s Anti-National Portrait Gallery

When an artist/writer/performer meets that breaking point…

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Categorized: Culture, New

Mar 09 2018

If uncertainty is today’s central narrative are we commuting straight into the abyss?

If uncertainty is today’s central narrative are we commuting straight into the abyss?

Profound uncertainy and the abyssal commute.

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Categorized: Culture, New

Feb 23 2018

Normies under siege: eyes wide open in A Clockwork Orange sunset

Normies under siege: eyes wide open in A Clockwork Orange sunset

There are new Droogs on the block and they’re taking no prisoners

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Categorized: Culture, New

Jan 26 2018

Over! Over! The insights of the unutterable, and why we’ll miss Mark E Smith

Over! Over! The insights of the unutterable, and why we’ll miss Mark E Smith

He was not appreciated

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Categorized: Culture, New

Dec 04 2017

Booming for the real: how Banksy saved Basquiat from the Barbican

Booming for the real: how Banksy saved Basquiat from the Barbican

Magpie culture and the freedom to be.

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Nov 22 2017

A 21st century educational dystopia

A 21st century educational dystopia

Amidst the financial meltdown of the United Kingdom and its political chaos – the two may well be linked – the parlous state of education in the UK may seem a lesser problem. But are we not falling behind much of the rest of the world because of the way our education system, much like […]

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Categorized: Power, Recent

Jun 07 2017

Thoughts About The Future On The Eve Of The 2017 General Election

Thoughts About The Future On The Eve Of The 2017 General Election

We are now on the eve of one of the most discussed and fractious elections in the last fifty years. We have a leader of the main opposition whose own party was trying to hound him out just four months ago . The sections of the electorate most likely to respond to the new ideological […]

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Categorized: Power

Jan 28 2017

The Argument For Responsibility, Optimism And Creative Resistance In The New Twilight Zone

The Argument For Responsibility, Optimism And Creative Resistance In The New Twilight Zone

A message to the creative community. Seems like the Left got lazy. As liberalism got liberally spread through societal channels the accepted ‘norm’ shifted and gave us gay marriage, trans-rights, paralympian role models and a host of other progressive symbols that conservatives of all persuasions would previously have laughed off the table. The western world […]

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Categorized: Power

Dec 31 2016

Farewell 2016, and all that

Farewell 2016, and all that

2016. For a year that began with the death of David Bowie and ended with the election of Donald Trump to the White House the rabbit hole has truly opened. Some might say that the events of 2016 have answered questions that were posed by the darkness of events in 2001, others that questions for […]

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Nov 24 2016

Technology for the Hard of Believing – the 60s in the 21st Century

Technology for the Hard of Believing – the 60s in the 21st Century

Throughout the ages mankind has had to cope with change. New rules, new laws, new discoveries. New faiths. New ideas. In more recent history there has been foreign travel, with its accompanying new foods and new materials. The arrival of train travel broadened horizons. The industrial revolution made massive changes to the lives of working […]

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Categorized: Power

Sep 22 2016

The future of politics in the age of Trump, Brexit and delusional beliefs

The future of politics in the age of Trump, Brexit and delusional beliefs

It started with Michael Gove, a T shirt and the New Scientist…

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Sep 17 2016

‘High Rise’ film review—surreal, violent, decadent. But is it Ballardian?

‘High Rise’ film review—surreal, violent, decadent. But is it Ballardian?

Ben Wheatley’s film of J.G. Ballard’s ‘High Rise’ has been mostly well-received but Tony Eddicott asks: is it Ballardian enough? →

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