I didn’t go to Jeremy Corbyn’s rally in Leamington Spa yesterday. I didn’t need to. I (and almost everyone else) already knew what he was going to say.
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Should Punk Stay Or Should It Go?
A closer look at the age-old question of whether punk is dead reveals quite the opposite – the sentiments behind the genre may have changed, and it may have but a shadow of its former social relevance, but punk is very much alive and kicking despite today’s naysayers.
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Angels in America
To say the National Theatre’s revival of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America has been hotly anticipated, is an understatement. It was an instant sell out and boasts a heavy weight, award winning team. The play is divided into two parts – The Millennium Approaches and Perestroika. So, does the 7-hour double bill live up to…
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#MakeScienceCoolAgain – just how damaging is scientific inaccessibility?
The March for Science took place in cities across the world yesterday, with Washington’s protest seeing tens of thousands in attendance. People poured onto the streets in defiance of the impending budget cuts to research, vocalising the importance of science both on personal, and universal levels. However, in the midst of this positive solidarity, I was particularly struck…
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2017 General Election
Brutalism’s revival: The forgotten ethics
Brutalism, identified by its chunky peculiarity and concrete oddity is both adored and loathed, understood and condemned. But as its national demolition is routinely being called for, an insurgence in its popularity has emerged, only to illuminate the current isolation between politics and architecture – a relationship once intrinsic to our fabric of life.
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The Great Brexit War
13 Reasons Why
A show that both embodies and defies teenage cliché, 13 Reasons Why tackles the suicide of a girl, Hannah Baker, and her reasons why she did it. It is a gripping drama that questions the accountability of each person in turn over thirteen episodes, a mystery for the viewer and protagonist.
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Roman Tragedies – Toneelgroep Amsterdam
The jagged concrete outline of the Barbican Centre, in all its brutalist glory, lends itself fittingly to my mood as I enter – it is hard not to wince, at least subconsciously, at the prospect of six hours of Shakespearean text to be performed sequentially and without interval, in a language you do not speak.…
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On Breakups: Part I
Me and my first love did not break up because we did not love each other anymore. We didn’t have any arguments. We were so happy together. But we had also moved very fast. Getting into a relationship at the age of fifteen and then being together for three years was a surprise to us…
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