STEPHANIE BROWN draws attention to the hidden labour of the female embroiderers, and how a 19th century replica made no such error
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Climate Change and the Nation State
Arguments for national autonomy in confronting environmental crisis
MIK SABIERS revels in a band that ploughs an idiosyncratic furrow of expletive laden, guitar-driven alt rock
ANDY HEDGECOCK, MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Synthetic Sincerity, Our Hero, Balthazar, Heartstopper Forever, and A Year In London
The bard invites readers to a gig, raps for Clacton, and lays out the Burnham-Hurzeler conundrum
RON JACOBS recommends an important book that enhances the oppositional theories put forth by Fanon and, in doing so, remakes psychology itself
JAN WOOLF relishes an extensive history of our long relationship to trees in Britain that underlines the current emergency
DIANE WATT argues that while evidence of sex is not there, a 16th‑century lesbian poet could be Scotland’s answer to Gentleman Jack
“CLIMATE change will be a battle between uncontrolled capitalism and the planet,” Anatol Lieven declares in his conclusion to this thought-provoking book. In his view, it is far more of a threat to the world’s great powers than they are to each other.
Yet, while the 2008 National Security Strategy of the United Kingdom states that climate change is
“potentially the greatest challenge to global stability and security and therefore to national security,”nothing has been done.
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