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Portraits from the pandemic: Artists highlight the role of NHS workers

4 June 2020 / 393

Nicholas Baldion discusses art, portraiture and the Covid-19 crisis, illustrated by some of his portraits of NHS workers. The painting above is of Karl, who works for... Continue reading

Nicholas Baldion

Films

Back in Old New York

3 June 2020 / 305

Rita di Santo reviews Woody Allen’s new film, A Rainy Day in New York, with a good deal of scepticism “Don’t you see the rest of the... Continue reading

Rita Di Santo

Poetry

Plague Songs – It Cures What Ails Ya!

3 June 2020 / 338

Plague Songs – It Cures What Ails Ya! by Martin Rowson One should not mock the chronic sick,And nor should we mock DominicWhose road-based therapies recall,Damascus-bound, those... Continue reading

Martin Rowson

Eating & Drinking

The future of breaking bread

3 June 2020 / 346

Charlie Clutterbuck continues the joint Culture Matters/Morning Star series on the future of cultural activities after the Covid-19 crisis, looking at what will we have on our... Continue reading

Charlie Clutterbuck

Cultural Commentary

The countryside, class and culture

1 June 2020 / 382

Stuart Cartland looks at the cultural and political representation of topography, at how landscape becomes mythscape, expressing class power and national identity. The painting is Mr and Mrs. Andrews, by... Continue reading

Stuart Cartland

Poetry

Darkening

1 June 2020 / 312

Darkening by Steve Pottinger for george under a darkening skywe sit round a log fireout there cities are burningthe planet is burning and i can’t breathe out... Continue reading

Steve Pottinger

Poetry

breath

31 May 2020 / 334

breath by Fran Lock, with image by Martin Gollan inside this symmetrical fiction of skins, we do not courtthe carnivore attentions of a cop with eyes like... Continue reading

Fran Lock

Poetry

The Last Hurrah

31 May 2020 / 333

The Last Hurrah by Hamish Wilson In thanks, we gave our NHS a clap,banged saucepans, hooted, whistled, strummed and sang,gave glad hands for heroes, joyful urban rapwith... Continue reading

Hamish Wilson

Religion

Apocalypticism Now

28 May 2020 / 366

James Crossley reflects on the dangers and possibilities of the Covid-19 crisis. Image: Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Albrecht Durer, 1497-8 Towards the end of March, it... Continue reading

James Crossley

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