Long Live Satie!
Alexander Billet assesses the life and impact of composer Erik Satie, 150 years after his birth.
There are a great many fun and entertaining ways one could celebrate the 150th birthday of Erik Satie. The...
Bad comedy and bardolatry: on the politics of Shakespeare in the age of mechanical...
It's 400 years since Shakespeare died, and Kate Bradley doesn't care.
This year, the BBC tells me, 'Shakespeare Lives'. Apparently, it's 400 years since Shakespeare died, and the BBC is using it as an excuse...
Can we afford to laugh at ourselves in Broken Britain? A review of The...
In the bleak years of Stalinist Russia Nikolai Erdman wrote a grim satire about a man planning to take his own life. In the bleak years of neoliberal Britain Suhayla El-Bushra has updated the...
‘Your lunacy fits in nicely with my own’ (from ‘Sea Song’)
Starting out as drummer and singer for Soft Machine, Robert Wyatt has been making music for over 5 decades. Neil Rogall reviews 'Different Every Time', a new biography of him by Marcus O'Dair
Robert Wyatt, now in...
Kes: a tale for our times. Remembering Barry Hines.
Barry Hines, the author of such books as A Kestrel for a Knave, which became the film Kes, has died aged 76. Colin Revolting offers an appreciation of his seminal work.
Kes, or A Kestral...
On cultural appropriation, from American Spirit to Palmyra
While symbols and their deployment undoubtedly structure our experience, Charlie Jarsve argues that power relations have a materiality that an uncritical understanding of 'cultural appropriation' can obscure.
I still remember the first time I came across American...
Critiquing empire through the white man’s gaze – a review of The Revenant
The Revenant has been widely praised, not least for its apparent critique of colonial expansion. However, while its de-romanticisation of the frontier is an improvement on recent cinematic glorification of imperialist violence, the colonised subjects remain...
“You can’t organise a riot”: racism, riots and arrests in 1981
In memory of John "Brad" Bradbury of the Specials who topped the charts with Ghost Town whilst Britain burst into flames of riots and racism in 1981 - Colin Revolting remembers how anti -...
“Important Speech on why we should go to war, just released”
Michael Rosen reports on an "Important Speech on why we should go to war, just released".
"We can drop bombs through the eye of a needle.
We can't always find the needle.
But we drop the bombs anyway.
And...
Ten radical poems for National Poetry Day
Like the song says, socialism is about bread, but also roses. With the help of rs21 members we've gathered ten poems about the fight against capitalism, racism and women's oppression, and our dreams for a better...