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The Sikh Snowman: Review by Jan Woolf

15 December 2020 / 395

Jan Woolf reviews the latest children’s book from Culture Matters In homage to Raymond Briggs’ classic book and animation The Snowman, this is a charming tale about... Continue reading

Jan Woolf

Cultural Commentary

Popular culture, Brexit and One Nation Toryism

14 December 2020 / 329

Jim Aitken describes how so much of popular culture reflects and legitimises the values of the Tories and the ruling class. Image above: Downton Abbey There was... Continue reading

Jim Aitken

Poetry

The Sword and the Sickle: William Blake and class struggle

4 December 2020 / 329

To celebrate his 79th birthday, David Betteridge writes about swords, sickles and class struggle I Have a slow look at the drawing shown above. Is it not... Continue reading

David Betteridge

Poetry

Amnesia of the Asylum-seeker

4 December 2020 / 324

Amnesia of the Asylum-seeker by Leah Fleetwood Who we were back then, it’s hard to recall:lawyers, actors, fruit-sellers at a stall;street-singers, clerics, or newssheet writers?How were we... Continue reading

Leah Fleetwood

Music

A proclamation of universal human community: Beethoven’s Ode to Joy

4 December 2020 / 365

Jenny Farrell discusses Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, on the eve of the 250th anniversary of his birth Like few other composers, Beethoven expresses the will for freedom, the... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Books

Where We Get Magic From

3 December 2020 / 375

We tend to think that feeding and watering our kids is enough. Job done. We’re so busy making a living ourselves that we gladly hand them over... Continue reading

Mike Quille

Poetry

2020

3 December 2020 / 305

2020 by Tom Hubbard Cardboard covers the flesh in a smitten street,While, immunised from sudden empathy,Flesh covers pasteboard as high chancers greetDank festivals of mediocrity.Their very bodies... Continue reading

Tom Hubbard

Theatre

An Enemy of the People

2 December 2020 / 363

Anthony Squiers reviews an astonishingly relevant production of Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People, performed on Zoom by the J.T. and Margaret Talkington College of Visual... Continue reading

Anthony Squiers

Poetry

The myth of the self-made man

1 December 2020 / 378

Paul Dovey

Life Writing

A barricade of resistance: Review of From the Plough to the Stars

29 November 2020 / 367

Paul Simon reviews From the Plough to the Stars, edited by Jenny Farrell This anthology is another impressive book from the Culture Matters imprint and is funded... Continue reading

Paul Simon

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