Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Thursday, 15 February 2024

Andrew McMillan's debut novel, Pity, packs a big punch

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Pity , award-winning poet Andrew McMillian’s debut novel, is, at under 200 pages, feels hardly much longer than the  archetypal  ‘slender vo...
Tuesday, 12 December 2023

Bernarda Alba – a warning from Spanish patriarchy and fascism

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Frederico Garcia Lorca completed   The House of Bernarda Alba , his final play, in June 1936. On 16 August, he was arrested by the fascists ...
Tuesday, 5 December 2023

Drag as protest in award-winning doc Queendom

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“I just hope people get it and don’t think I’m some sort of propaganda freak,” says Gena Marvin, as they prepare to take their performance a...
Thursday, 27 October 2022

Taking a sledgehammer to the uber rich

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Triangle of Sadness many not exactly be up there with Brecht in terms of being a subtle approach to class, but Swedish film maker Ruben Öst...
Monday, 13 December 2021

West Side Story – winding up the gammons

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There’s a film for me, somewhere a film for me ... Well, perhaps I have just found the one. Let’s be clear: I’m talking about Stephen Spielb...
Sunday, 24 October 2021

Sir David Amess: Blaming social media is a distraction

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The murder on 15 October of Sir David Amess, the MP for Southend West, was horrifying by any metric. A 25-year-old has been charged and will...
Tuesday, 19 October 2021

The Tories care about people? Well, some of them don't

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If anyone ever tells you that the Conservatives don’t care about people, ignore them. The Conservative and Unionist Party most certainly car...