Blog – Page 24 – Culture Matters

Tough at the Top

8 January 2024 / 374

Tough at the Top by Paul Francis Though Paula Vennells has this business brainshe moonlights as a handmaid of the lord – a vicar with an eagle... Continue reading

Paul Francis

Poetry

Stripped

8 January 2024 / 328

Stripped by Bernie Crawford Always go for the strong imagethe one that stalks the mindwhen the book is closedlet it do the work, I encourage my students... Continue reading

Bernie Crawford

Music

Using high art as an enrichment, not an escape

3 January 2024 / 370

In October 2023, I had the pleasure of reviewing a book by Jack Van Zandt – Alexander Goehr: Composing a life – published by Carcanet Press, the... Continue reading

Ben Lunn

Films

The Enemy Within: A Review of ‘Saltburn’

2 January 2024 / 484

Michael Jarvie urges us not to bother with Saltburn Saltburn, directed by Emerald Fennell, is a feature film from 2023, currently available to watch on Amazon Prime.... Continue reading

Michael Jarvie

Poetry

Paseo de los Refugiados Celtas

2 January 2024 / 313

Paseo de los Refugiados Celtas by Declan Geraghty Hands calloused strainedon our knees we are Celtic refugeesour country long deaddear citizens of Eireyou matter we give this... Continue reading

Declan Geraghty

Films

Theaters of War: How the Pentagon and CIA took Hollywood

30 December 2023 / 355

Brett Gregory, UK Desk for Arts Express on WBAI-FM Radio (New York) interviews Dr. Matthew Alford, Lecturer in Politics, Languages and International Studies at the University of Bath... Continue reading

Brett Gregory

Religion

Christ Beneath the Rubble

28 December 2023 / 480

In the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus, city and church leaders cancelled all Christmas festivities this year to mourn the more than... Continue reading

Jim Aitken

One more just war or just one more war? The New York Times and all the military propaganda that’s fit to print.

26 December 2023 / 425

The so-called ‘Biden Neocons’ are part of the Uniparty of Democrats and Republicans who have minor quibbles but one major agreement. That is their unequivocal support for... Continue reading

Dennis Broe

Cultural Commentary

A Babel of Thoughts: Creon, Antigone and Mandela

26 December 2023 / 391

In each new outbreak of conflict in the world, there are different sets of structures of feeling at work, that is to say ways of thinking about... Continue reading

David Betteridge

Poetry

should an agency cleaner in the basement

24 December 2023 / 339

should an agency cleaner in the basement of the British Museum find in some forgotten room an old earthenware lamp and choose to rub it, rub it... Continue reading

Steve Pottinger

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