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St Vincent’s new album ‘Daddy’s Home’ delivers modern pathos in vintage clothes

  • Posted on May 20, 2021May 20, 2021
  • A Struggle for Culture

Given the ubiquity of 1980s sounds and aesthetic in modern pop music (recently taken past the point of tedium by Miley Cyrus’s Plastic Hearts and The Weeknd’s ‘Blinding Lights’), it was only a matter of time before someone asked, “Why is no-one tapping the vast…

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Thrilling Eve — Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s dazzling wit saves Killing Eve from its ridiculous plot

  • Posted on March 18, 2021March 18, 2021
  • A Struggle for Culture

First published on July 8, 2019, on Medium It’s worth pointing out, given the justified popularity of Killing Eve, that it succeeds despite its plot being preposterous. Both at the macro level of premise and the micro level of events, the hit BBC series is almost…

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Angela’s Fascists

  • Posted on May 7, 2018May 8, 2018
  • A Struggle for Culture

Review of Kill All Normies by Angela Nagle, originally published in Medium on October 19th, 2017.  Is there something about the internet which brings out the worst in people? It’s a question one has reason to consider every day. But a new book by Angela…

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Empathy for the Devil

  • Posted on May 7, 2018April 11, 2021
  • A Struggle for Culture

Review of The Rage by Julia Ebner, originally published in Progress magazine on October 5th, 2017. The Rage – out today from IB Tauris – is part dedicated to the memory of Jo Cox, the slain member of parliament who suffered the kind of death…

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Thomas Frank’s Angels and Demons

  • Posted on May 7, 2018May 8, 2018
  • A Struggle for Culture

Review of Listen, Liberal by Thomas Frank, originally published in Prospect magazine on March 15th, 2016. One of the notable features of this carnival of bunkum we agree to call the US presidential election, with its insurgent candidates and controversial rhetoric, is how none of…

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