What made us human?
Simon Wells reviews Chris Stringer’s ‘The origin of our species’ Professor Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum is one of the world’s leading experts on human fossils, famous for…
Reviews
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Nobody’s laughing
// Regular readers of this website will have become increasingly accustomed to my particular mode of passive-aggressive vituperation. The world throws something at me, and my first response is to…
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Riots and rock’n'roll
// Harley Filben went to Onedotzero’s New British Talent 11 (BFI Southbank, Thursday November 24) In the beginning, it is a bit of a cliché to say, all films were…
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Love me, I’m a liberal
// Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School Of Medicine live in London As we were watching Jello Biafra advocating “non-violent direct action” from the stage of the O2 Academy in…
Red Mist blog
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Me and my low sense of wrongness
Posted on November 18, 2011 | No Comments// A couple of weeks ago, as I very often do, I got into a pretty heated argument (the bellicose sort, is old Comrade Filben). I and two fellow Marxists... -
On the Atzmon affair
Posted on October 25, 2011 | 4 Comments// In a small corner of the already small radical publishing industry, the circulation of radical gestures and Badiou citations (just why is he so big, anyway?) has been interrupted... -
Never trust a hippie: Steve Jobs and the neoliberal work ethic
Posted on October 20, 2011 | 1 Comment// The overlord may be gone, writes Tiziana Argento, but the bad stench remains A couple of days after the much-publicised demise of the former CEO of Apple, an acquaintance...