Blog – Page 92 – Culture Matters

Secrets, crimes and the schooling of the ruling class: how British boarding school stories betrayed their audience

31 May 2019 / 460

Nicholas Tucker asks why authors of children’s stories about boarding schools chose to concentrate on escapist fantasy, rather than telling the truth Asked by a magazine in... Continue reading

Nicholas Tucker

Visual Arts

Walter Wolfgang

31 May 2019 / 358

Walter Jakob Wolfgang, 23 June 1923 to 28 May 2019, was a German-born British socialist and peace activist. He was Vice-President and Vice Chair of the Campaign for... Continue reading

Anon

Films

Young Ahmed: the fear and anguish of a young radical working-class Muslim

23 May 2019 / 366

Rita di Santo reviews Young Ahmed, which won the Best Director prize at Cannes recently Like Britain’s Ken Loach, Belgium’s most renowned filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne... Continue reading

Rita Di Santo

Films

Ken Loach’s Sorry We Missed You: the gig economy as agony, not freedom

21 May 2019 / 335

From Cannes, Dennis Broe reviews Ken Loach’s latest film, about the slow breakdown of a family exposed to the ‘freedom’ of the gig economy The first scene... Continue reading

Dennis Broe

Visual Arts

Narbi Price introduces his new exhibition of paintings, set in Ashington and inspired by the Pitmen Painters. Image above: Untitled Wall Painting (Kwik Fit), acrylic on board, 50x70cm... Continue reading

Narbi Price

Visual Arts

Boss

16 May 2019 / 335

(under capitalism) are eating destroying (eating up – not literally of course) other mammal species. Continue reading

Mike Quille

Visual Arts

Gustave Courbet: the working class becomes the subject of art

16 May 2019 / 495

On the 200th anniversay of Gustave Courbet’s birth, Jenny Farrell looks at his revolutionary choice of theme and form, called ‘socialist propaganda’ by his critics A constant... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Poetry

Green Shadows

15 May 2019 / 349

Green Shadows by William Hershaw Poor old Johnny Clare!Driven mad by Society, protected by Poetry,Flapping like an owl, daftman on the roadBetween London and The Bluebell Inn.You’d... Continue reading

William Hershaw

Poetry

This poem has a title

14 May 2019 / 365

This Poem has a Title by Lisa Kelly This poem must take medication in order to be read at any future event. It has been found that... Continue reading

Lisa Kelly

Poetry

helpston

8 May 2019 / 333

helpston by Fran Lock the brazen head has spoken: heat. and now, the summerlifts its loaded pitchforks to the light. the pewit in the dog-whistle of its... Continue reading

Fran Lock

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Secrets, crimes and the schooling of the ruling class: how British boarding school stories betrayed their audience

Walter Wolfgang

Young Ahmed: the fear and anguish of a young radical working-class Muslim

Ken Loach’s Sorry We Missed You: the gig economy as agony, not freedom

Against the day

Boss

Gustave Courbet: the working class becomes the subject of art

Green Shadows

This poem has a title

helpston

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