@stellduffy @chrisplol funeral is Tory attempt to show we’re all Thatcherites now and support #welfarecuts. That must be challenged. — Stephen Newton (@stephennewton) April 15, 2013 All being well, my train should be pulling in to London Euston around now, just a couple of hours before Thatcher’s coffin is due to arrive at Continue reading
Margaret Thatcher is dead. While this day has been long expected, Thatcher’s death remains one of those events about which you don’t know how you’ll feel until it happens. Now is a time to brace oneself for the endless media coverage and many will have their crocodile tears well rehearsed, desperate to find Continue reading
It’s a common observation that Shelia Heti could easily be a character in Lena Dunham’s excellent Girls. Both explore the experiences, concerns and aspirations of relatively privileged (though they rarely feel it) young women trying to make sense of the world. They have much more social and political freedom than any previous generation Continue reading
An inevitably melancholic film — the eponymous Monsieur Lazhar is the new teacher who replaces one who has committed suicide — this remains a tender well acted movie. The classification as comedy may leave some a bit confused. I found even the lightest comic relief to be thin on the ground and this does underline Continue reading
The holocaust, it seems, has fired the imaginations of more writers, film makers and other artists than any other event in history. And yet new stories, new ways of approaching the subject continue to emerge. Sarah’s Key, set partly in 2002 and partly in 1942, succeeds so well because it makes the history Continue reading
