Josef Steen
Josef Steen is a freelance writer who has written for Bright Wall/Dark Room and The Quietus
Jonathan Glazer’s speech was an affirmation of Jewishness
Critics who accuse him of denying his identity have things backwards
The bastard son of democratic aestheticisation
How Donald Trump made populism funny
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
Why personal insults fail
Getting personal might be mean, but it is also ineffective
Keeping your head may just save your soul
Hyperreality meets holocaust denial in the insanity of the social media age
In praise of Elon Musk
He deserves respect for his defence of free expression online
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
Why young men like Donald Trump
He cuts through the sterility and severity of modern life
The death of Britannia Agoraia
Deindustrialisation has done damage even beyond the realms of economics
Exilic yearnings
Miklos Rozsa: violin concerto (LSO Live)