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(n.) the act of turning round or back; degeneration, the act of making worse

Ahead of their appearance at the Byline Festival, Salena Godden introduces an interview with the poet Matt Abbott about the Nymphs & Thugs poetry record label and his co-hosting of LIVEwire.

Chris Sullivan hails a new addition to the Marvel franchise, that marvels with its spectacle when all else fails.

Salena Godden writes the sixth episode of Pessimism for Lightweights on Bravery in Peckham, Dystopia on Love Island and Comfort in Books

Otto English on why celebrities, who know very little about the political issues they are offering views on, should stick to their métier.

Salena Godden on how our ancient dreams of the impossible became today's realities and prove that 'Pessimism is for Leightweights'

Salena Godden's fourth episode of 'Pessimism is for Lightweights' warns of the dangers of too much bad news and the need for hope.

aberglaube (n.) belief in things beyond the rational or verifiable.

Salena Godden writes her third episode of 'Pessimism is for Lightweights' about a testing week that had a precious moment of solidarity

Chris Sullivan, DJ and writer remembers Steve Strange, lead singer of Visage and the New Romantic Movement on what would have been his 60th birthday.

On the road with her LiveWire poets, Salena Godden finds hope in youth and poetry's ability to help us mourn our passing world.

Writer and DJ Chris Sullivan explores how 'Amazing Grace', the new Sydney Pollack film finally released nearly 50 years after its original due date, got him thinking about the origins of Gospel music.

Chis Sullivan searches for impoverished drug-fueled reality in the late Nat Finkelstein's Photography Exhibition, 'In and Out of Warhol’s Orbit' from his past interviews with Nat and the people who knew the the Factory best.

Willem Dafoe's performance as Van Gogh is "beyond brilliant" says Chris Sullivan, who ponders whether creativity is always close to madness.

The tolerance and acceptable of 1980s Britain is to be admired far more than Dallas, big shoulder pads and synth pop, says Chris Sullivan.

Prolific songwriter Don Mescall will be headlining the St Patrick’s Day Festival at London's Trafalgar Square.

Undeniably, the opioid/heroin epidemic sweeping the United States is the greatest drug endemic to ever hit the country. Indeed, more people died of overdoses in 2017 than all US military personnel killed during both the Vietnam and Iraq conflicts and more than those killed by guns, car, AIDS in any single year in the US.

Journalist and DJ Chris Sullivan on the tired "magic formula" for gaming the Academy Awards system

The conflict in Ukraine came with the suppression of hopeful young people waving the blue and yellow flag of the EU. They saw in that symbol a sign of hope that we have all but lost sight of in the UK.