Blog – Page 15 – Culture Matters

‘Poetry is the Last Stand of the Soul’: Out of Gaza, New Palestinian Poetry

3 April 2024 / 387

Jim Aitken reviews the new antholgy from Smokestack Books, edited by Alan Morrison and Atef Alshaer ‘Poetry is a duty because it records the last stand of... Continue reading

Jim Aitken

Education

Public libraries: an island of socialism in a sea of capitalism

2 April 2024 / 575

Libraries and communism are like Marx and Engels – you can’t have one without the other. Marx did some of his most important work in the British... Continue reading

John Pateman

Eating & Drinking

At the Chocolate Factory: negotiating cocoa illusion in fact and fiction this Easter

2 April 2024 / 490

Indelibly racist Roald Dahl was called upon by Hollywood profit-brokers again last year for yet another adaptation of his 1964 children’s novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.... Continue reading

Amy K Grandvoinet

Poetry

Gremlins

1 April 2024 / 362

Gremlins by Fran Lock “having gotten in, it’s coming out one of two ways: walking or writing.” / we want axioms, maximum sky. not you./ an immobile... Continue reading

Fran Lock

Sport

What’s there to get hot under England’s collar about?

1 April 2024 / 499

Mark Perryman gets to grips with Nike v St. George, with image above by Hugh Tisdall “This virtue signalling, namby-pamby, pearl-clutching, woke nonsense must stop now. Any... Continue reading

Mark Perryman

TV, internet and other media

The imperialist problem of ‘3 Body Problem’

1 April 2024 / 447

Dennis Broe outlines 3 Body Problem’s imperialist problem. Image above: the Chinese Cultural Revolution as a moment of chaos In Culture and Imperialism, Palestinian scholar Edward Said details... Continue reading

Dennis Broe

Poetry

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson

1 April 2024 / 428

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson(A bilingual limerick by Gabriel Rosenstock) The whole thing’s a bit of a blurI admit, I have caused a wee stir Please, don’t be unkind... Continue reading

Gabriel Rosenstock

Poetry

Good Friday

29 March 2024 / 421

Good Friday by Steven Taylor When you’ve climbed up on the roofof the last remaining house in Gazathrow away the ladder and dare themto demolish you, safe... Continue reading

Steven Taylor

Films

‘Zone of Interest’ and Glazergate: The director’s challenge and the Zionist reaction

29 March 2024 / 407

Jonathan Glazer is the Academy Award and BAFTA winning director of Zone of Interest, a film that highlights the “dehumanization” going on outside the Nazi death camp... Continue reading

Dennis Broe

Visual Arts

‘Everyone is an artist’: but how good is the access of women to culture?

29 March 2024 / 525

Reading the Communist Party’s recent Class & Culture pamphlet led Ruth McCann to consider the diminishing space for women to socialise and create When it comes to... Continue reading

Ruth McCann

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