Opinion Opinion Alienation and the pop song ANDY HEDGECOCK explores the implications of a recent statistical study of music lyrics that highlights the role of monopoly capital in silencing complexity
Book Review Thursday 22nd Apr 2021 Book Review We Have Never Been Middle Class by Hadas Weiss Acute interrogation of how social perceptions, values and beliefs influence economic behaviour
Friday 16th Aug 2019 Nostalgia for the 1960s is a complete waste of time It’s the left-wing activism of Jeff Nuttall where inspiration can be drawn from, writes ANDY HEDGECOCK
Book Review Thursday 22nd Apr 2021 Book Review Telling insights into ‘the war on the principles of liberty’ ANDY HEDGECOCK recommends a revelatory new history of the Peterloo Massacre
Book Review Thursday 22nd Apr 2021 Book Review Rebel Footprints by David Rosenberg New edition of the indispensable radical walking guide to London
Book Review Thursday 22nd Apr 2021 Book Review On track for dystopia A new book on profiling reveals just how far down the road to a Big Brother society we've gone, says ANDY HEDGECOCK
Fiction Review Thursday 22nd Apr 2021 Fiction Review It's Gone Dark Over Bill's Mothers by Lisa Blower Short stories give voice to the underclass judged inarticulate by the literary establishment
Book Review Thursday 22nd Apr 2021 Book Review Soccer vs the State: Tackling Football and Radical Politics by Gabriel Kuhn A timely and entertaining read on the history and development of the ‘beautiful game’
Thursday 22nd Apr 2021 Book Review: People's Republic of Walmart ANDY HEDGECOCK recommends a challenge to conventional thinking on a socialist planned economy
Book Review Thursday 22nd Apr 2021 Book Review How virtual power is imprisoning us in a surveillance society Monitored: Business and Surveillance in a Time of Big Databy Peter Bloom(Pluto Press, £16.99)
Book Review Thursday 22nd Apr 2021 Book Review The downside of data A book on the 'metric society' details the use of statistics and digital information for malign political, social and economic ends, says ANDY HEDGECOCK