The Greatness of “The Wicker Man”│ Ben Khamis
We are browsing the HMV at Westfield in London when I happen across The Wicker Man – The Directors Cut. I turn to my friend and ask if he has seen it. “Yeah. It...
Category: Culture
Don Quixote: A Critical Analysis (Book Review)│ Ben Khamis
I refuse to be defeated by any book. Unless I have some serious moral problem with a given work, I will almost never return a book to the library just because I got “bored”...
Free Speech: Dead as a Dodo? | Sarah Stook
Count Dankula. There’s no doubt that you’ve heard the name, the screen name of Scot Markus Meechan. If you’d not heard of the YouTuber before, there is no doubt that you haven’t now- the...
Vasily Grossman’s Life & Fate – A Review│ Ben Khamis
In Postmodernism or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism – a difficult book, but, it seems increasingly clear, the most important critical work of the last twenty years – Fredric Jameson observes that ‘the...
Let’s Hear It For the Boy | Sarah Stook
2018 has seen the push for equal rights reach a forefront in society. Everywhere you look, politicians, businesses and newspapers proclaim to be the person/thing for equal rights, dedicated to fighting inequality and implementing...
Opinion: Why I, As a Woman, Am Sick of Paternalism | Sarah Stook
In 2018, the push for equality is still one which is strong in many areas of society. For some, we have not gone far enough and for others, it has gone too far. Never...
In Defence of Useless Things │ Jake Scott
“All art is quite useless” declared Oscar Wilde, and in doing so summarised succinctly the traditional discipline of aesthetic appreciation, and beauty. “Art is useless,” thought Wilde, “because its aim is simply to create...
The American Gun Issue: A Crash Course for the Bewildered Brit | Karl Cooper
“A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” – The Second Amendment The United States Constitution,...
The Intellectual Darkweb (I): The Origins│ Rory Johnston
The Intellectual Dark Web. This new frontier of news and political analysis. Coined by mathematician extraordinaire, Eric Weinstein, the term largely denotes the movement for freedom of speech and free thought in alternative media....
Awards Season – Is It Over Yet?│ David Bone
Now that the award season is over and the film-stars/celebrities/musicians have all had their congratulatory, self-love fests for yet another year, all to dismal viewing figures, for the production of cultural output most of...
