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Craft beer and competition

24 October 2016 / 329

Keith Flett continues his selfless quest at beer festivals to identify the economics of producing craft beer in a competitive, capitalist market – and what tastes nice.... Continue reading

Keith Flett

Stop consuming and do it yourself

20 October 2016 / 326

Via email interview, Robb Johnson introduces his new album and talks about politics, protest music, and plum pudding. Q. Can you tell us something about your new... Continue reading

Robb Johnson

‘the bravest of the brave’

16 October 2016 / 316

‘the bravest of the brave’ by Fran Lock We will never again – in any future conflict – let those activist, left-wing human rights lawyers harangue and... Continue reading

Fran Lock

‘Bomb the river’: space, class, and masculinity in Shane Meadows’ films

13 October 2016 / 349

Steve Presence looks at the way space, class and masculinity are represented in two films directed by Shane Meadows. Introducing his book Cinematic Countrysides (2007), Robert Fish... Continue reading

Steve Presence

Football’s culture wars

13 October 2016 / 389

The recent exposure of greed and possible corruption at the highest levels of English football raise questions about the way sport in Britain, under tremendously strong and... Continue reading

Martin Cloake

Animal Farm: a powerfully written allegory but an untruthful, gender-blind analysis

11 October 2016 / 337

Following her appearance on the In Our Time radio programme discussing Orwell’s Animal Farm, Professor Mary Vincent reflects on its powerfully written but fundamentally untruthful and simplistic... Continue reading

Mary Vincent

Communism in the gunsights

11 October 2016 / 554

Graham Stevenson reviews the recent In Our Time radio programme about George Orwell’s Animal Farm. Melvyn Bragg’s discursive radio series, In Our Time, recently considered Orwell’s Animal... Continue reading

Graham Stevenson

You Say You Want a Revolution? Records and Rebels at the V and A

5 October 2016 / 362

Phil Brett finds an intoxicatingly high level of class struggle in the latest V and A exhibition. Rock music is ageing and whilst not dead, does appear... Continue reading

Phil Brett

Marketing a culture of overconsumption

5 October 2016 / 380

Dr. Emma Boyland continues her series with a look at marketing strategies by Big Food to promote overconsumption. A drum-playing gorilla. An orange tiger saying “grrrreat!”. Even... Continue reading

Emma Boyland

Cultural Commentary

Placing the art of the people at the heart of our public life

5 October 2016 / 337

Andrew Warburton continues his series on arts policy by interviewing Dr. Ben Walmsley, professor of audience engagement at Leeds University. Socialist policies for arts and culture are... Continue reading

Andrew Warburton

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