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Peregrine Mission One

21 January 2024 / 345

Peregrine Mission One by Lisa Kelly for Gene Roddenberry, aka the Great Bird of the Galaxy, 18 January 2024 Peregrine was supposed to boldly gowhere no man’s... Continue reading

Lisa Kelly

Books

A Brief and Biased History of Love

18 January 2024 / 421

‘A soft, blunt, insistent rhythm in Alan Humm’s lines beats time to accounts of absent friends, of urban landscapes, of past and present violence, of love’s uncertainties.’... Continue reading

Culture Matters

Books

Rebel Admin

18 January 2024 / 382

The poems in Rebel Admin are visually intense, and syntactically jagged; they create a sort of fragmentary cinema, one that works to signal the irrational absurdity of... Continue reading

Culture Matters

Films

Grim, glorious visions of broken Britain: a review of the film ‘Tish’, and the photography of Tish Murtha

17 January 2024 / 492

Brett Gregory reviews ‘Tish’, directed by Paul Sng, 2023, and presents some of Tish Murtha’s photographs ‘My use of photography and the approach to it is based... Continue reading

Brett Gregory

TV, internet and other media

A lurid labyrinth of bestial bureaucracy: Julian Assange and Wikileaks

12 January 2024 / 461

Brett Gregory interviews Dr. Matthew Alford, Lecturer in Politics, Languages and International Studies at the University of Bath (UK) BG: Hi, this is the UK Desk for... Continue reading

Brett Gregory

Mr. Bates Goes to London: The Post Office scandal and the series that exposed it

11 January 2024 / 412

A simple four-part television series, Mr. Bates vs The Post Office, has prompted the head of that agency to give back her title as a CBE (Commander... Continue reading

Dennis Broe

Poetry

Ceasefire Now!

10 January 2024 / 309

Gabriel Rosenstock

Cultural Commentary

On Wednesday, 30 October 1929, the following article was published in the German Frankfurter Zeitung, translated into German by M. Schillskaya from a Soviet newspaper. The original... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Poetry

Halley’s Comet Burning Over Mark Twain’s Head

8 January 2024 / 339

Halley’s Comet Burning Over Mark Twain’s Head by Fred Voss I didn’t have to go to war in Italy like Ernest HemingwayI just walked into a Los... Continue reading

Fred Voss

Poetry

To breathe the air of peace: a review of ‘Tomorrow’s feast’, by Gerda Stevenson

8 January 2024 / 419

Tomorrow’s Feast by Gerda Stevenson is her third poetry collection. It is presented in several sections with a prologue called Albatross that tries to understand why the... Continue reading

Jim Aitken

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Peregrine Mission One

A Brief and Biased History of Love

Rebel Admin

Grim, glorious visions of broken Britain: a review of the film ‘Tish’, and the photography of Tish Murtha

A lurid labyrinth of bestial bureaucracy: Julian Assange and Wikileaks

Mr. Bates Goes to London: The Post Office scandal and the series that exposed it

Ceasefire Now!

A monument to Lenin

Halley’s Comet Burning Over Mark Twain’s Head

To breathe the air of peace: a review of ‘Tomorrow’s feast’, by Gerda Stevenson

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