Who is right?   The Tories have just trounced Labour at the polls. Amid the political point scoring, finger pointing, character assassination and messianic zealotry, I wonder if it might […]

On #puppetgate In Homo Sacer (1998), the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben explores the nature of sovereign power and production of bare life, describing homo sacer as someone whose ‘entire existence […]

Trans Europa Xpress The days of Empire are long gone… Because the UK won WW2 (with the Soviets and the Americans and the forces fighting from across The Empire) and […]

Starting points Going back to them is always interesting but hazardous. The first reflection is that when Arts Council England (ACE) began in 1946, it was a starting point, and […]

When a Cornish councillor resigns well into the second year after stating that all disabled children should be put down to save money, we can sleep well in our beds […]

I have been trying to work out why I found Bowie’s Where Are We Now? so affecting. At first I thought it was because in the video he comes across […]

Brussels – its not a capital city I have had a sense of, like Paris or Amsterdam or Berlin. French / Flemish – neither flesh nor fowl, rather in bureaucratic […]