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| Tuesday 5 October 2010 |
Not just a factory-
made feelgood film
Made in Dagenham eschews the fashionable disdain for the working classes to remind us how equality is really won.
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| Tuesday 7 September 2010 |
How ‘relevance’ killed the public library
For fear of being branded elitist, British libraries have ruinously sacrificed silence and good books for cafés and DVDs.
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| Friday 20 August 2010 |
East Germans don’t have a monopoly on nostalgia
Yes, getting misty-eyed over the old Stasi state seems mad - but others in the West also have a hankering for long-gone pasts.
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| Wednesday 18 August 2010 |
Serge and the soul
of modern France
By celebrating Gallic daring and flashing back to anti-Semitism, Gainsbourg captures France’s identity crisis.
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| Friday 30 July 2010 |
East Germans don’t have a monopoly on nostalgia
Although the GDR was little better than an open prison, a surprising number of its former citizens hanker after the old days. Such a longing for old certainties exists elsewhere in the West, too.
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| Monday 26 July 2010 |
Why mad inventors don’t survive the Dragons’ Den
The hit BBC show reveals the bean-counting cautiousness and lack of entrepreneurial spirit of today’s capitalists.
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| Wednesday 12 May 2010 |
The slapstick side to Islamic terrorism
Chris Morris’s depiction of jihadists as dunces who hate slags and Maccy D’s is scarily accurate.
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| Wednesday 14 April 2010 |
What this Twitterstorm reveals about Labour
Stuart MacLennan’s real crime was to spout Labour’s prejudices against chavs and old people in an uncouth way.
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| Thursday 8 April 2010 |
An initiation into the culture of unfreedom
Clamping down on students’ boozy socialising will only give rise to a society of life-long adolescents.
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| Wednesday 10 March 2010 |
The Miles Davis of anti-capitalism
Riffing off one glib observation after another, Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story is his weakest film yet.
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| Friday 26 February 2010 |
When indie music was truly independent
Death to Trad Rock, John Robb’s splendid recollection of the noisenik experimentalism of the Eighties and early-Nineties indie music scene, is not just nostalgia for fortysomethings – it’s a timely reminder of less sanitised, conformist times.
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| Friday 15 January 2010 |
Ian Dury: je t’adore, ich liebe dich
Sex & Drugs & Rock’n’Roll is a fantastic evocation of Seventies Britain and the funny, aggressive world of an unlikely pop star.
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| Monday 11 January 2010 |
There was nothing edgy about Wossy
It is elite self-flattery to think Jonathan Ross was hounded out of the BBC by a Puritanical Middle-England lynch mob.
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| Wednesday 6 January 2010 |
Why the Tories really hate Tesco
The Conservatives’ declaration of war on supermarkets shows just how elitist and snobby is today’s anti-Tesco sentiment.
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| Tuesday 22 December 2009 |
Rage Against The Masses
The chart victory of the preposterous RATM suggests today’s yoof might be the uncoolest generation in history.
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| Thursday 3 December 2009 |
Whatever happened to the class struggle?
There are two things all progressives should demand in this era of recession: more freedom and more prosperity.
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| Thursday 27 August 2009 |
You say underclass, we say white trash
Chris Grayling’s comparison of Moss Side with The Wire was silly, but his critics have vilified the working class, too.
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| Thursday 20 August 2009 |
A low level of educational ambition
While A-level grades may be rising, UK education remains as culturally impoverished as the public life that informs it.
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| Wednesday 15 July 2009 |
The return of the aristocrats
Radical greens who encourage Prince Charles to butt into politics are setting history back hundreds of years.
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| Friday 26 June 2009 |
China’s factory girls: nobody’s victims
At last, a book on China’s growth that doesn’t paint migrant workers as pathetic victims but rather as aspirational individuals who now have far more choices than marrying the village idiot.
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