Culture
Taking our cue from Raymond Williams’ ‘culture is ordinary’, we explore how politics works through old and new media, books, film, stage and screen, music and sport – prioritising the grassroots voices democratising creative channels of communication.
Taking our cue from Raymond Williams’ ‘culture is ordinary’, we explore how politics works through old and new media, books, film, stage and screen, music and sport – prioritising the grassroots voices democratising creative channels of communication.
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What happened to Local TV?
Local TV promised to platform grassroots politics and marginal voices, but weak regulation saw the sector thin out. Andy Brain surveys the survivors and asks: can communities reclaim the airways?
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Chloe Slater and the politics of young Britain
Political messaging, generational tensions and deepening class conflict are fuelling Chloe Slater’s popularity, argues John Newsham
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Jude awakening
Juliet Jaques celebrates the work of Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude, whose incisive social commentary prioritises laughter, substance and style
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An interview with Pussy Riot’s Maria Alyokhina
Maria Alyokhina explains the power of music and political will at a time of war, rising authoritarianism and right-wing radicalisation
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Selling DOPE
Rory Robertson-Shaw describes how DOPE magazine spreads radical left ideas while earning money for its homeless and financially precarious vendors
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Sinners sinks its teeth into Irish settler colonialism
Aisling Walsh celebrates Ryan Coogler’s thriller, which points a rare spotlight on Irish complicity in Indigenous genocide and racist violence
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Shaking up the sector: an interview with Art Workers for Palestine Scotland
A coalition of culture industry workers are refusing to let the Scottish Arts sector stay silent on Palestine, an organiser tells Red Pepper
