Cover Page, 28 October 2021, Issue 298 Welcome to our latest edition. This week we consider: trusting the police with new powers; Mrs Thatcher, Glasgow and some rats; a despatch from the Culture Wars; ideology’s distorting effect on art; laughter as the best medicine; a review of two exhibitions at Tate Modern; a Corbynista’s week;… Continue reading Issue 298: 2021 10 28: Cover page
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Issue 298: 2021 10 28: Trusting the Police
28 October 2021 Trusting the Police A question of new powers. By Robert Kilconner The bill on assisted suicide is now well on its way through Parliament. The public generally are in favour, presumably taking the view that there is no point in keeping people alive just to suffer, and it now seems likely that… Continue reading Issue 298: 2021 10 28: Trusting the Police
Issue 298: 2021 10 28: Strikes Again
28 October 2020 Fatcher Strikes Again by J. R. Thomas Only a few more days and Glasgow will have its moment in the sun. Nobody who has been awake for the last few weeks can have missed that Glasgow is the United Kingdom’s choice for hosting the CoP26 conference where the nations of the world… Continue reading Issue 298: 2021 10 28: Strikes Again
Issue 298: 2021 10 28: Culture Wars
28 October 2021 Culture Wars Not the way forward. By Lynda Goetz In a week when we have had everything from Benin artefacts being sent back to Nigeria; reports of the Royal Opera House (ROH) carrying out a review of classic opera and casting; three museums agreeing that it is time to stop ‘fashionable’ reviews… Continue reading Issue 298: 2021 10 28: Culture Wars
Issue 298: 2021 10 28: Diary of a Corbynista
28 October 2021 Diary of a Corbynista A Banquet of Effluent by Don Urquhart 21 October Message Board responses to Corbynista in Shaw Sheet 297: Walsall: I would take issue over A/V being a form of PR when, in some circumstances it is even less proportionate than FPTP. The ‘2 votes’ argument is nonsense, BTW.… Continue reading Issue 298: 2021 10 28: Diary of a Corbynista
Issue 298: 2021 10 28: Art and Politics
28 October 2021 Art and Politics Don’t mix. By Neil Tidmarsh There’s something very odd and very interesting at the heart of Ridley Scott’s new film The Last Duel, a serious flaw which tells us much about our current society and culture even though the film is set in the fourteenth century. The film tells… Continue reading Issue 298: 2021 10 28: Art and Politics
Issue 298: 2021 10 28: Time to Laugh
28 October 2021 Re-establishing Laughter Well done, Brighton girls. By John Watson Of all the disgraceful news in Monday’s edition of The Times the most outrageous came from Brighton Girls, a progressive independent school which is introducing laughter therapy sessions to help counteract the depressing effect of lockdown on its pupils. What is worse is… Continue reading Issue 298: 2021 10 28: Time to Laugh
Issue 298: 2021 10 28: Rodin / Anicka Yi
28 October 2021 The Making of Rodin Tate Modern, 18 May – 21 November 2021 Anicka Yi Tate Modern, 12 October 2021 – 16 January 2022 Reviewed by William Morton Somewhat late to be reviewing ‘the Making of Rodin’… This is partly due to the pandemic (which has meant that one has failed to see… Continue reading Issue 298: 2021 10 28: Rodin / Anicka Yi
Issue 298: 2021 10 28: Crossword
21 October 2021 Crossword By Boffles Crossword No 298 Click for this Week’s interactive online crossword Click for a printable version of this Week’s crossword Click for solution to crossword 297 Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
Issue 298: 2021 10 28: Cartoons
28 October 2021 Cartoons By AGGro Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
