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The UPSIDE DOWN: This Too Shall Pass – What Defoe’s Plague Journal Can Still Teach Us
, 30 March 2020
As the Coronavirus pandemic changes all of our lives, John Mitchinson reflects on how the observations of humanity revealed in such moments of crisis transcend time and place.
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Culture
CORONAVIRUS CRISIS
The Upside Down
Arts
Coronavirus
History
Literature
Public Health
The Year of Living Distantly: Making Lemonade
, 27 March 2020
ames Melville shares his thoughts about how we are more together, while more apart, than we have ever been during the Coronavirus crisis.
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Culture
CORONAVIRUS CRISIS
The Year of Living Distantly
Coronavirus
Public Health
Social Media
Society and Welfare
Tech, Data and Algorithms
The Year of Living Distantly: A Dark Relishing
, 26 March 2020
Conrad Egbert provides his insights on dealing with the COVID-19 outbreak from Copenhagen.
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Culture
CORONAVIRUS CRISIS
The Year of Living Distantly
Coronavirus
Denmark
Public Health
The Fantasies of Video Game Cities Can’t Escape Real Social Contradictions
, 24 March 2020
Jon Bailes looks at why even video games – as fantasies – can’t seem to consciously address the antagonisms of our political, economic and social lives.
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Culture
Tech, Data and Algorithms
Video Games
The Year of Living Distantly: The Stuff that Happens Somewhere Else
, 24 March 2020
Christina Patterson explores how she is coming to terms with our terrible new reality – and the snatches of beauty within it.
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Culture
CORONAVIRUS CRISIS
The Year of Living Distantly
Boris Johnson
Coronavirus
Economy
Philosophy
Public Health
Society and Welfare
UK Politics
Postcards from the Red Wall: A Town with Contradictions
, 23 March 2020
Graham Williamson visits Doncaster, which voted to Leave the EU by 69% in 2016, and welcomed a Conservative MP to one of its constituencies in the 2019 General Election.
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Culture
Postcards from the Red Wall
England
Society and Welfare
UK Politics
The Year of Living Distantly: The Empty Hours
, 23 March 2020
Chris Keulemans reflects on what living with the Coronavirus might teach us about the kind of life we really want.
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Culture
CORONAVIRUS CRISIS
The Year of Living Distantly
Coronavirus
Europe
Holland
Philosophy
Public Health
Society and Welfare
Sociology
The Year of Living Distantly: A Letter to My Mum
, 20 March 2020
Otto English pens some thoughts to his 89-year-old mother, who he visited this week in the Coronavirus chaos.
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Culture
CORONAVIRUS CRISIS
The Year of Living Distantly
Coronavirus
The Herd Instinct and ‘Herd Immunity’: The Etiology of a Bad Idea
, 17 March 2020
The science didn't change – the politics did. Peter Jukes follows an inflammatory and disastrous theory as it spread rapidly through the British body politic.
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Culture
Fact
CORONAVIRUS CRISIS
BBC
Boris Johnson
Broadcasters
Conservative Party
Coronavirus
Dominic Cummings
Health
Media
Newspapers
Public Health
UK Politics
THE UPSIDE DOWN: Raising Hell – The Long Afterlife of William Blake
, 16 March 2020
John Mitchinson explores the lasting resonance of the works of the English poet and artist who attracted little acclaim during his lifetime.
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Culture
The Upside Down
Arts
History
Literature
Philosophy
Poetry
‘Misbehaviour’ Misses the Mark
, 11 March 2020
Chris Sullivan reviews a new take on the 1970 Miss World pageant and explores the debate about sex and race which it exposed.
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Culture
Activism
Arts
Equality and Diversity
Film
Identity
Racism
Society and Welfare
Fiction in the Age of Fake News
, 9 March 2020
After 40 years as a theatre director and author, Stephen Unwin sees the avant-garde as powerless against the Alt-Right and argues we need a new respect for reality.
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Culture
Sorealism
Media
UK Politics
THE UPSIDE DOWN: The Lie of the Land – We Need to Talk about the Enclosures
, 9 March 2020
John Mitchinson considers the economic and psychic dangers of land appropriation.
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Culture
The Upside Down
Environment
History
‘The True Story of Ned Kelly’: Criminal or Freedom Fighter?
, 6 March 2020
Chris Sullivan reviews an adaptation of the Booker Prize-winning novel that explores the boundary between banditry and rebellion.
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Culture
Arts
Australia
Film
Postcards from the Red Wall: The Other Baker Street
, 6 March 2020
83% in one suburb of Middlesborough voted to Leave the EU. But Graham Williamson sees self-sufficiency and a new spirit despite stereotypes of 'Northern Towns'.
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Culture
Postcards from the Red Wall
Brexit
England
Society and Welfare
UK Politics
Odeon of Death Film of the Month: 28 Kids Later
, 3 March 2020
The Odeon of Death takes a look at the month's events through the medium of cinema.
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Culture
Odeon of Death
Arts
Film
‘Dark Waters’: Bringing A Corporation To Account
, 28 February 2020
Chris Sullivan reviews a new film exploring corporate destruction and greed and the tenacity of lawyers and litigants to achieve accountability and justice.
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Culture
Arts
Courts
Drugs
Film
Health
Law
United States of America
Fowl Play: How US Chicken Imports will Pollute Britain’s Poor
, 28 February 2020
Since joining the EU British food has gone from bog-awful to top-notch, but Otto English reveals how a US Trade deal will unravel 40 years of progress.
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Culture
Fact
Boris Johnson
Brexit
Europe
Food and Drink
Foreign Affairs
Health
Poverty
The European Union
UK Politics
United States of America
‘Downstream of Culture’: How Identity Politics Swept Labour Away
, 28 February 2020
While the right has turned politics into a culture war, the left has yet to tackle the politics of culture, says Hardeep Matharu.
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Culture
2016 EU Referendum
Boris Johnson
Brexit
Cambridge Analytica
Conservative Party
Donald Trump
General Election 2019
Identity
Jeremy Corbyn
Society and Welfare
Sociology
Steve Bannon
UK Politics
US Politics
From Sunderland to the Bullingdon Club: Englishness Unravelled
, 26 February 2020
Unsatisfied with George Orwell's description of patriotism, John Mitchinson digs deep into his own personal history to untangle the complex roots of his Englishness.
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Culture
Class
England
Identity
Philosophy
Sociology
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