Comic Books
William Brown turns one hundred
“I’ll thcream and thcream and thcream until I’m thick”
Happily devoid of consequences
The Beano magazine retains its quality but not all its character over the decades
Back from the dead
The UK has a rich comics tradition often obscured by the cultural dominance of Marvel and DC
What’s the point of university during a freedom of speech crisis?
Students should be taught to do more than agree
London and the laggards
In the eighteenth century London was booming, but many towns weren’t doing so well
The death of conservatism?
Individually and collectively, we must choose life
The perversity of the Oasis reunion
The cultural optimism of the nineties has been lost
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
The Tory beauty contest
The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright embarrassing
Afrocentrism with a Labour twist
Dawn Butler’s Black History Month video was disturbing as well as weird