Amy Winehouse, addiction, and the pity of capitalism
The extraordinary response to the early death this weekend of Amy Winehouse reveals the extent of the affection in which she – and her music – were held. But her life and public engagement with it...
View ArticleThe riots and the state of exception
The best responses to the riots in London and other British cities have come not from the main British media outlets, particularly not the ideologically collusive BBC (the Guardian and Independent...
View ArticleWe know no one crueller
We know no one crueller by J. P. E. Harper-Scott is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at...
View ArticleHas capitalism done as much for gays as Pride?
Today the fortieth Gay Pride march takes place in London. I have a natural sympathy with protest movements and as a particularly striking and long-lived one, the gay pride movement has much to be...
View ArticleIs opera really all that expensive?
The Proms season has begun, so it’s time for the media to laud and damn high culture all at once. I didn’t get far in a little Guardian discussion between Roger Wright, the director of the BBC Proms,...
View ArticleBrief thoughts on Lily Allen
Lily Allen’s ‘feminist’ video ‘Hard Out Here’ is old news, a couple of months old, but I’m behind the times and I’ve just encountered it, and its critical responses, today. Its flaws have already been...
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