April 2013

A Dame of Thrones: Bowie weekender at the V&A Museum with Charles Shaar Murray and Barry Miles

My birthday celebrations (30th April, if you really must buy me a drink) got off to a cracking start on Saturday with the Bowie weekender and two days of mostly free events at the V&A museum augmenting their stunning Bowie Is exhibition. Charles Shaar Murray and Barry Miles gave four talks on the 1960s counter-culture […]

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The Book of Mormon review: South Park creators’ gentle mayhem in London

Here’s my review of The Book of Mormon for the Morning Star Thursday 25th April 2013. The Book of Mormon may not represent the much-heralded death of satire but, with full-page ads taken out in the show programme by lampooned subjects The Lion King and the Mormon church itself, this effervescent musical inches us ever

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A Bad Case of the Trots and Stop the War: current anti-feminism has VERY deep roots in the left

“Just imagine, the whole place being upset by one little Chinese girl in the scullery.” (Anna May Wong in the scullery in Piccadilly, 1929)  I’m reposting my article, A Bad Case of the Trots, which was published in Tribune magazine, September 2003 following my time establishing and running the Socialist Alliance (SA) and Stop The

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Thatcher dies, Judy Garland banned: BBC asks Wizard for brain, courage and heart

Flying monkeys force Wizard of Oz to ban “Ding Dong, the Witch is Dead”. Munchkins furious and appeal to Glenda the White Witch to intercede. Judy Garland banned, the Lollipop Guild crushed. Rainbow privatised and handed over to the chaps in the Emerald City. It would take a heart of stone not to laugh at

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