History is made at night

A while ago I posted chronologies of police and parties from 1996 and 1997 . Here's some more from 1994 and 1995, all from England unles...

The Acid House moment of the late 1980s, like the Punk moment a decade or so previously, is often presented as a kind of Year Zero where som...

Bruce Turner's painting 'Pavlova' is a remarkable early modernist image of a dancer in motion painted in around 1912. I saw it y...

I've been meaning to post for a while on the Irish hunger strike in 1981, an event that had a big impact on me when I was growing up. 3...

Summer police and party news from England.... Police use taser in North West London ( Harrow Observer , 7 September 2011) 'Riot police ...

A global economic crisis is leading to global austerity - yet paradoxically in places at the sharp end populist nationalism is resurgent ami...

Robert Beckford's 'Jesus Dub: theology, music and social change' (London: Routledge, 2006) offers a 'dialogue between the cu...

In A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens describes a gathering of the wealthy in pre-revolutionary France: 'But, the comfort was, th...

The state and media's targeting of social media following last week's riots in England started out as an absurdity, with twitter, fa...

Two front covers from The Sun thirty years apart. The first from 1981 during riots, an image of police behind riot shields in Liverpool 8 an...

The news today from Ethiopia is grim, as it has been at many times in the past, with drought , food shortages, torture and political repre...

Today is Hiroshima Day - on August 6th 1945, the first nuclear weapon was dropped on Japan, killing perhaps 70,000 people in an instant, and...

Lebanese musician Zeid Hamdan, from the band Zeid and the Wings, was arrested last week for allegedly defaming Lebanese President Michel Sul...

The following text is still one of the best things I've read on Star Trek. It was originally published in a magazine called Melancholic ...