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May 25 2020

The Fool of Man — A UK Tragedy

What is currently in play with COVID-19 and the collapse of the financial structure and future of the United Kingdom is all a massive shit show, certainly, but could anyone have devised a more humiliating premiership for Boris Johnson than has been the case? His is a fall of Shakespearean proportions, unravelling before the very […]

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Categorized: Politics, Power, Recent

Feb 07 2019

Time’s Not Revolution’s Fool

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At the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, President Xi Jingping delivered a speech that lasted for 3 hours and 23 minutes. In it he set out his ‘China Dream’. It was time, he said, for his nation to transform itself into ‘a mighty force’ that could lead the world on political, […]

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Categorized: Politics, Recent

Dec 10 2018

The Last Refuge in the Age of Technology

Mercy By Martin Godleman

History will be accessed by those who still read, those who let words on a touched page dance in their head.

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Categorized: Culture, Recent

Oct 15 2018

Who owns the Dark Agenda?

The Dark Agenda

Now that we’re all visible and connected who’s manipulating who?

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Categorized: Culture, New, Recent

Jun 02 2018

To The City & The City for the love of an idea: the unseen paradox

On The City & The City by China Miéville

Miéville’s novel as a door to aporetic space.

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Categorized: Books, New, Recent

May 03 2018

The agenda that dare not speak its name

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Life in the interregnum years.

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Categorized: Culture, New, Recent

Apr 18 2018

Simon Jay’s Anti-National Portrait Gallery

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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?

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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

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

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Categorized: Culture, New, Recent

Jan 26 2018

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

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Magpie culture and the freedom to be.

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Categorized: Culture

Nov 22 2017

A 21st century educational dystopia

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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

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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

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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

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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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Categorized: Dystopian

Nov 24 2016

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

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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

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

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Categorized: Power, Recent

Sep 17 2016

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

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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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Categorized: Culture, Recent

Aug 12 2016

The Dystopian Interview: Noam Chomsky at Boston MIT

Noam Chomsky interview.
Read a partial transcript and watch the film of our meeting with the linguist and social critic →

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Categorized: Power

Aug 05 2016

The approaching Trumpageddon: Simon Jay at the Edinburgh Fringe

Trumpageddon Simon Jay The Dystopian

Donald Trump could be elected the most powerful man in the world… so laugh yourself to Trumpageddon. Simon Jay at the Edinburgh Fringe →

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Aug 05 2016

The great dystopian writers—Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World

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Some things you didn’t know about Aldous Huxley and his Brave New World →

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Categorized: Culture

Jun 21 2016

Chapter one of Martin Godleman’s dystopian novel, ‘1909’

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The earth has been blown out of orbit and there are 1909 years before total annihilation. Read the first chapter of Martin Godleman’s dystopian novel which includes a compelling twist on sexual politics →

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