History is made at night

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 ...

The death of artist Lucian Freud this week reminded me of going to his big exhibition at Tate Britain in 2002. As a sometime mandolinist th...

Took this last week in Laurie Grove, New Cross (that's South London for you out of town people). Just around the corner from Goldsmiths ...

As the uprisings of July 1981 died down, the focus shifted to the defence of those arrested. The most remarkable trial was that of the Brad...

Rock Against Racism was a significant cultural force in Britain during the late 1970s, mobilising some of the best punk, post-punk and regga...

A Radio 4 profile earlier today revealed that Rebekah Brooks, who resigned today as Chief Executive of News International, was a youthful fa...

Another in the series of posts on the 1981 summer riots . Thirty years ago today, on 15 July 1981, Brixton exploded for the third time that...

I found this CBS inner sleeve in an old record the other day - actually it was Leonard Cohen's Songs from a Room from 1969. It sets out ...

The punitive UK immigration controls against musicians have been highlighted here before . A particularly poignant example this week, with a...

Another in the series of posts on the 1981 summer uprisings . 30 years ago today, on Saturday 11 July, riots raged in Leicester, both in the...

Another in the series of posts on the 1981 summer riots . 30 years ago today, on Friday 10 July, Brixton exploded for the second time in thr...

Number five in a series of posts on the 1981 summer riots - following on from Southall , Liverpool Manchester and Wood Green , on Thursday...

All this talk of the short hot summer of 1981 has naturally got me thinking about continuities and discontinuities between then and now. On...

The fourth in a series of posts on the summer riots of 1981 . On Tuesday 7 th July 1981, on the same night as the first stirrings of the up...

The third in a series of posts on the summer riots of 1981. The fighting in Toxteth died down on Monday, but the following day the torch (...

The second in a series of posts on the 1981 summer uprisings in England: Night number two was in Toxteth, Liverpool, 30 years ago on Saturd...