Coming to Club Popular on Thursday? Well, now you can sing along![…]

So if you’ve taken my advice and wandered up to Cork Street in London’s Mayfair to look at the giant jelly babies, please take a few minutes to have a look at the Redfern Gallery. The main show at the moment is a series of very simple wor[…]

THINGS I HAVE LEARNED FROM GROWING MY OWN BASIL
1. Pinch off the top of your plant after 4 sets of leaves to make it more bushy and less beanpoley
2. If you buy cheapo compost from Poundland, you will get a bonus crop of mushrooms[…]

ANTHEMS (Part 4 of 4)
Continued from New York London Paris Munich
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ENVOI
A conclusion to this somewhat forced ramble might better belong somewhere else than here, but there is no political blog as such (or at least not a permanent one) here an[…]

ANTHEMS (Part 3 of 4)
Continued from Do You See?
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DURUTTI COLUMN
“Royal Infirmary”
MARK HOLLIS
“A Life (1895-1915)”
PIANO MAGIC
“Artists’ Rifles”
The extent of World War I’s impact in the British[…]

ANTHEMS (Part 2 of 4)
Continued from The Brown Wedge
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ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
Dir. Lewis Milestone
The first version of this story I saw — though I barely remember anything about it, I was only eight at the time and didn’t h[…]

ANTHEMS (Part 1 of 4)
This is a somewhat quixotic attempt to write a cross-blog entry inspired by recent reading, viewing and listening. Whether or not it works, well, it’s up to you…
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TOMMY
Auth. Richard Holmes
It wasn’t i[…]

The Open Access Debate : To be Free, or Not to be Free?
Preamble: I was endlessly undecided about this issue. I mulled this over, wrote some stuff, mulled some more, wrote more a few days later, decided everything I wrote was crap, mulled again, deci[…]

For those of you interested in the origins on of the “movie based on a computer game” we can go back a lot further than Streetfighter, Mortal Kombat and Super Mario Brothers. I give you David Cronenbergs lost masterpiece: Repton: The Movi[…]

MON DIEU, C’EST UN RIP OFF!
The French market held in Glasgow on Saturday as part of the Merchant City Festival looked promising. A long row of colourful stalls stretched the length of Candleriggs and only the addition of a couple of peasants w[…]