The Hijab Story | Sarah Stook
A furore was created after Boris Johnson’s weekly Telegraph column described the women who wear burkas as ‘letter boxes’ and looking like ‘bank robbers.’ Though the rest of the article pushed to defend the...
Category: Culture
The Conservative Woman | Sarah Stook
When conservativism and women are mentioned in the same breath, there is usually confusion. For the left, there seems to be no reason for women to support the Conservative Party, Republican Party or any...
The Ritual, the Symbol, the Myth│ Jake Scott
Proceeding on from an article I wrote not long ago in defence of useless things, I hope the reader will continue to allow me an indulgence in my mediocre understanding of aesthetics and explore...
The Future of Socialist Strategies: For a Left Populism, by Chantal Mouffe (Book Review)
Book Review Title: For a Left Populism Author: Chantal Mouffe Place: Great Britain Publisher: Verso Publication date: 14th July 2018 Edition: First Pages: 85 Special features: None Price: £10.99 ISBN: 978-1786637550 Mouffe is...
The Intellectual Darkweb (II): Naughty New Right │Rory Johnston
In my previous articulation of the Intelletual Dark Web (IDW), I justified that one of the most important tenets shared by those belonging to the IDW was the shared sense of dissidence. Those of...
Crime and Punishment: A Critical Analysis (Book Review) │ Ben Khamis
‘Will I Really – I mean, really – actually take an axe, start bashing her on the head, smash her skull to pieces?… Will I really slip in sticky, warm blood, force the lock,...
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...
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...
