THE FANTASTIC HOPE

I'm not quite sure of the of the origins of this series, but I was flattered to be asked to contribute by esteemed Manchester blogger, ...

With Easter approaching, here's a short, obliquely religious reading of Live Forever by Oasis (pruned and abstracted, as you might imag...

Right folks, the campaign trail for this here Oasis book is starting to stammer into life, just as the 20th anniversary season approaches ...

Reading Sterne's Sentimental Journey , I'm struck by how much its ethical guidebook for the haute bourgeoisie resembles our own...

Dream swelling soar here

Bit of a late one this, but if you're in central London tonight you could do a lot worse than come along to this event , which I'm ...

A ballad (21st-century North)   We drove by the ruined mills of Leek In the dead time of the year When the land had become li...

Now this is what I mean when I get steamy about 2010s pop ... Man called Futurebound ffs.

There's been a lot of debate about intersectionality recently. But all too often, it seems to me, what's being termed intersecti...

Further to this debate about retromania (see below, here and here ), there's a very interesting article by James Parker and Nicholas ...