Sycophantic and subservient to procedures of the British state, Starmer is truly law-brained. He's the ultimate politician: dangerous and boring, like bleach.
Netherlands correspondent Sean Morley documents the experience of
moving from Sheffield to North Holland – and the political epiphany of
not living in England anymore.
Alex Niven’s The North Will Rise Again looks at the North’s cultural history
of modernism, progressivism and radicalism. Sean Morley speaks to Niven about Brian Ferry, regional devolution – and how the
North invented sci-fi.
How did the world’s richest troll disintegrate a fortune through the power of their own corrupted personality? It's a morsel of poetic justice to be savoured like a precious twiglet.
Why are millionaires displaying the worst artwork you’ve ever
seen? Why is my worst uncle trying to sell me imaginary internet money? Welcome
to the year of the NFT.
Now that the pandemic response is being led by a focus group of anti-mask Facebook comments, what does the future look like for those of us radical enough to want to retain our sense of smell?
Sean Morley looks at the history of policing, the propagandising effect of detective fiction, and asks whether the police force really keeps the peace or creates more violence.
We've glimpsed a society in which non-essential work is paused and people are allowed to be as calm as multiple catastrophes allow. Now we're revving up the Global Warming Machine and preparing to forget that another world was ever possible.
Examining the friction between a desire for an overhaul of oppressive hierarchies through confrontational direct action versus my other desire to sit in a dark room and sweat all the liquid out of my body.
Scorched Britons jerk their bodies upright, shake sand from
puckered skin and crane their eyes towards a fixed position in the
centre of the sun. It is time to commence The Clap.
The most popular reasons for not going to the moon included "not enough to do" (23%), "would rather visit places on Earth" (10%), and "reject premise that safe return could be guaranteed" (9%).
