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Disobedient Objects, an Archeology of the people’s struggles

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Disobedient Objects, an Archeology of the people’s struggles

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by Esther Carrera (words). and Chiraz Aich (pictures) It is the first week of January, and its back-to-work, back to reality. And, we may wonder if there is any good news? Well, there is. Till the end of the month an unusual but necessary exhibition is taking place in the V & A Museum, which I would […]

Review: Nightcrawler, a fantastic rendering of capitalism

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Review: Nightcrawler, a fantastic rendering of capitalism

by Jen Izaakson The Nightcrawler works as a contemporary insight into working conditions in the post-economic crisis West, one still reeling from the 2008 crash. Lou Bloom (Jake Gyellenhaal) relentlessly embodies all that is alienating about contemporary life. Lou casts a hollowed out figure onscreen, representing different positions within capitalist employment, shifting from lumpen criminal, […]

Book review: Beaten But Not Deafeated

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Book review: Beaten But Not Deafeated

Book Review of Beaten but not Defeated: Siegfried Moos – A German Anti-Nazi who Settled in Britain by Merilyn Moos. Chronos Books, Winchester 2014. £17.99 by Louis Bayman   You might be forgiven for asking, who was Siegfried Moos? There is little reason for fame to accrue to an academic at the Oxford Institute of Statistics […]

Exploring Camden Market’s Street Art

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Exploring Camden Market’s Street Art

Louis Bayman takes a guided tour of some of Camden’s street art. “It was activism that got me here. Too much of entertainment is a factory world. I attended protests and started to see placards as a willfully ignored form of art.” It’s easy to walk past images. They stare at us from every shopfront, […]

Review: Pride – a brilliant, feel good story

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Review: Pride – a brilliant, feel good story

Review of Pride, out today, by Jim Jepps. For people of my generation The Miners’ Strike of 1984 was a defining moment. For good and ill, it shaped our ideas and beliefs about this country for decades to come. Just like the movement against the Iraq war it was not only a set of events that […]

Dear Nora: I read a book by Julie Bindel… and I liked it

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Dear Nora: I read a book by Julie Bindel… and I liked it

Dear Nora, I have a very delicate and personal problem, please help me, I’m desperate. You see, it all started when I was looking for some holiday reading. On a whim I picked up Julie Bindell’s new book “Straight Expectations” thinking “well, if nothing else I can write a scathing review of it.” It started […]

Review: The Kilburn Passion

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Review: The Kilburn Passion

by Natalie Bennett (a version of this article first appeared at blogcritics)   Kilburn is a marginal area of London – on the edge, with lots of people living life on the edge, although as everywhere else in the city, the creeping force of gentrification is visible, at least occasionally. It’s a place of characters, of chances, of […]

Review: ‘The Story of Walter Tull’

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Review: ‘The Story of Walter Tull’

by Merilyn Moos A remarkable and poignant production of ‘The Story of Walter Tull’ was put on by the newly formed Tottenham Theatre (dir. Lynda Brennan), in partnership with the Bruce Grove Youth centre, and supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund. The play was chosen for the theatre’s first production partly because of Tull’s links to […]

Review: Wonderland

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Review: Wonderland

by Hope Liebersohn Beth Steel was the daughter of a Nottinghamshire miner, and her play about the miners’ strike of 1984-5 at the Hampstead Theatre in Swiss Cottage runs until 26 July only, and is well worth a visit. You’ll get an insight into the cold, determined cabinet minister, Nicholas Ridley and the Coal Board […]