Category Archives: Culture, style and the arts

Blog on culture, style and arts

Guided by science?

The Secretive Group Guiding the U.K. on Coronavirus The British government frequently says it’s “guided by the science'. By Mark Landler and Stephen Castle April 23, 2020 LONDON [..]

Culture, style and the arts

How top Labour officials plotted to bring down Jeremy Corbyn

By Jonathan Cook Published in Middle East Eye The findings of a leaked, 860-page report compiled by the British Labour Party on its handling of antisemitism complaints is [..]

Culture, style and the arts, Guest writers, Political

DAY 1 JULIAN ASSANGE

By Craig Murray Woolwich Crown Court is designed to impose the power of the state. Normal courts in this country are public buildings, deliberately placed by our ancestors [..]

Culture, style and the arts, Guest writers, Political

Garbage TV

The Jeremy Kyle show was not a program designed to shed the light of wisdom – but to box, entrench, widen and comodify ‘ignorance’.  It bordered on the [..]

Culture, style and the arts, Political

Mick’s pop videos

Culture, style and the arts

AFTER THE FALL

by John Lancaster Some of the more pessimistic commentators at the time of the credit crunch, myself included, said that the aftermath of the crash would dominate our [..]

Culture, style and the arts, Guest writers, Political

On the EU referendum

  By Michael Skywood Clifford The EU is already a failed project, but if we remain in, then over forthcoming decades things will get far worse. First, let [..]

Culture, style and the arts, Political

The Today Programme

I wrote this some time ago but I thought it was worth running again By Michael Skywood Clifford. An email from a BBC executive said that the BBC [..]

Culture, style and the arts, Political

Whimsical entertaining television

For the past few weeks I have been watching the television drama Father Brown, which has been on daily at 2.15pm on BBC1. This crime drama lasts an [..]

Culture, style and the arts, Reviews

Persona by Ingmar Bergman

by Michael Skywood Clifford Persona is a disturbing film. Its a visual feast and an uncomfortable journey. It's a bit like an-edge-of-your-seat, not-knowing-whats-going-to-happen horror film. It's remarkably simple [..]

Culture, style and the arts, Reviews