Blog – Page 48 – Culture Matters

Apocryphal Idols

30 June 2022 / 366

Apocryphal Idols by Cheryl Vail, with image above by Martin Gollan Liberty’s a goddess yet how can she embody her name when she isn’t permitted to be ... Continue reading

Cheryl Vail

Fiction

The working class liberates itself: Review of ‘Joe Stafford: A Tale of Revolution’, by Charles Andrews.

29 June 2022 / 453

When is the last time you read an exciting story about the working class engaged in determined and successful struggle? This is just what Charles Andrews sets... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Cultural Commentary

Tackling the neoliberal, capitalist culture of Scotland: Review of ‘A New Scotland: Building an equal, fair and sustainable society’

27 June 2022 / 453

This book, edited by Gregor Gall, is both a timely and ambitious work that seeks to take Scotland further forward along the road to self-determination. It is... Continue reading

Jim Aitken

Books

This collection of beautifully illustrated love poems ranges from protesting the inequities and cruelties of our fragmenting world to delight in the variety and beauty of creation,... Continue reading

Culture Matters

Life Writing

Stewart Lee is a Snowflake!

26 June 2022 / 395

Michael Jarvie reviews Stewart Lee’s show, Snowflake Tornado Stewart Lee is the undisputed master of anti-comedy, or, if you like, meta-comedy. Drawing on Bertolt Brecht’s theatrical technique, which in... Continue reading

Michael Jarvie

Poetry

Shelley’s poetry: an integral part of the culture of the labour movement

26 June 2022 / 327

Shelley was born shortly after the French Revolution, heir to a substantial estate and also to a seat in Parliament, on 4 August 1792 in Sussex, England.... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Poetry

queeny land / ’er indoors

10 June 2022 / 321

queeny land / ’er indoors by Fran Lock i coined us a country. ’er indoors is a branked scold crowned at the kirk, hands in the hingedpillory... Continue reading

Fran Lock

Poetry

Levelling Up

8 June 2022 / 325

Levelling Up by Jenny Mitchell, with image by Martin Gollan They will not show this on the evening news – our mother kneeling down at Number Ten... Continue reading

Jenny Mitchell

Poetry

The Holding Pen

8 June 2022 / 325

The Holding Pen by Rita Ann Higgins When did we becomeso filled with anxiety and fearat the prospect of a holiday in the sunor a visit to... Continue reading

Rita Ann Higgins

Films

Top Gun – Maverick: expelled from the bowels of the Military-Entertainment Complex

7 June 2022 / 388

In 1990, Tom Cruise, star of the 1986 blockbuster, ‘Top Gun’, said: ‘Some people felt that “Top Gun” was a right-wing film to promote the Navy. And a... Continue reading

David Edwards

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Apocryphal Idols

The working class liberates itself: Review of ‘Joe Stafford: A Tale of Revolution’, by Charles Andrews.

Tackling the neoliberal, capitalist culture of Scotland: Review of ‘A New Scotland: Building an equal, fair and sustainable society’

Declarations of Love

Stewart Lee is a Snowflake!

Shelley’s poetry: an integral part of the culture of the labour movement

queeny land / ’er indoors

Levelling Up

The Holding Pen

Top Gun – Maverick: expelled from the bowels of the Military-Entertainment Complex

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