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Stewart Lee is a Snowflake!

26 June 2022 / 414

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 / 345

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 / 331

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 / 346

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 / 343

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 / 404

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

Poetry

Britishness

3 June 2022 / 397

Britishness, or A Riposte To The Platinum Jubilee by Jim Aitken B – Backwardness, best exemplified by BrexitR – Royalty, the pinnacle of a class-ridden societyI –... Continue reading

Jim Aitken

Poetry

Poetry against the monarchy

26 May 2022 / 382

Fran Lock presents four poems which capture the oddity and the horror of living in a country without class solidarity and where we are encouraged to accept a... Continue reading

Fran Lock

Poetry

Gaza

25 May 2022 / 782

Gaza: two haiku in Irish and English by Gabriel Rosenstock in response to street artworkby Banksy. abair, cá bhfuil sé?an clós súgarthain Gaza where . . .... Continue reading

Gabriel Rosenstock

Music

Culture for All: Why Choirs Matter

24 May 2022 / 381

As part of the Culture for All series, supported by the Communication Workers Union, we’re proud to present a short film about why choirs matter, by Boff Whalley. Continue reading

Culture Matters

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