The Good Old DaysMy first job after leaving education was waiting tables for a large catering company. I was attempting to start out in a career in theatre…Dec 16, 2020Dec 16, 2020
At The End Of The Storm, There’s A Golden SkyThere is a passage in B.S. Johnson’s autobiographical novel Albert Angelo, where Johnson describes attending a football match with his…Jul 25, 2020Jul 25, 2020
The Pleasures of AnalogueThere has been a curious vacuum of noise surrounding the BBC’s revival of Alan Bennett’s classic monologues Talking Heads which began to…Jul 5, 2020Jul 5, 2020
My Country: right or wrong?Russia is in the news again this week. Reports have emerged that Sir Christopher Steele, former head of the Russia desk at MI6, has given…Jun 25, 2020Jun 25, 2020
On Democracy and its LoopholesThe Indian political scientist Partha Chatterjee once wrote of the ‘Mythical Space of Normative Theory’. His compelling argument was that…May 29, 2020May 29, 2020
Hey You With the Pretty Face, Welcome to the Human RaceTucked away in the acknowledgements of The Ministry of Truth, Dorian Lynskey’s excellent new biography of George Orwell’s Nineteen…May 9, 2020May 9, 2020
You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’It’s a fact of our hyper-connected post-crash existence that younger people are settling into relationships later. Economic conditions…Apr 28, 2020Apr 28, 2020
Event Television in the Age of LockdownAlan Bennett writes in The History Boys that “our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground…Apr 16, 2020Apr 16, 2020
They think it’s all over…it is now?Karl Marx once wrote that “all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice…the first time as tragedy, the second…Apr 8, 2020Apr 8, 2020
Rose, RevisitedLast week saw the fifteenth anniversary of the return of Doctor Who to BBC One. To mark the occasion, Emily Cook of Doctor Who Magazine…Apr 1, 2020Apr 1, 2020
