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Akala: Find No Enemy
Racism, sexism and nationality / Just to me it all seems like insanity / Why must I rob you of your humanity / To feel good about mine?
Ken Loach: If you’re not angry about the world today, what kind of person are you?
Another world is possible, says Ken Loach, there is a sense that we really have to change things now.
Bob Dylan: fake, cultural thief, shameless and now… Nobel Prize winner
Heathcote Williams doesn’t join the mountain of praise heaped on Bob Dylan for winning the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Chimes of Freedom: the Politics of Bob Dylan’s Art by Mike Marqusee
Dylan’s songs of the sixties offer both a bracing protest against enduring enemies and a salutary critique of some of our own worst habits.
Akala: The Thieves Banquet
Which thief can stake his claim as the greatest messenger of murder upon the planet?
Akala: Shakespeare and Hip-Hop
Artist, writer and historian Akala explores the connections between Shakespeare and Hip-Hop, language and power.
Ken Loach: Visions of the future inspired by Jeremy Corbyn’s victory
Film director Ken Loach spells out his vision of what the future can hold for British politics.
Another Day – new album by Steve Ashley
“Clever, well-crafted and heartfelt songs by Steve Ashley, one of our finest songwriters.”
London’s original graffiti artists were poets, playwrights and revolutionaries
Roger Perry’s photos capture a uniquely English take on graffiti; charged with subversive humour and heartfelt poetic sentiment
Spraying the 70s: the pioneers of British graffiti
From Malcolm McLaren and the Angry Brigade to Madness and Heathcote Williams, tracing the story of Britain’s graffiti pioneers.
I, Daniel Blake: filmmaker Ken Loach and the scandal of Britain’s benefits system
Ken Loach’s new film I, Daniel Blake turns abstract concepts of inequality and social justice into lives that matter.
What’s it good for? Almost nothing. The trouble with second-hand clothes
Donating clothes to charity is not as ethically sound as it seems, says Tansy Hoskins.
Why Brian Eno refuses to let Israeli government use his music as propaganda
Eno is one of 1,700 artists who have signed the Artists’ Pledge for Palestine, refusing funding from or cultural contacts with Israel’s government.
Q&A Tansy Hoskins: author of Stiched Up – the Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion
Imagine clothing where the restrictions of class, race, and gender don’t apply, says Tansy Hoskins.
How prophetic was Bob Dylan when he said the times were a-changing?
Inspired by the 1960s movements for peace and equality, Dylan wrote The Times They Are a-Changin’, But were they? asks Jeff Goulding.
