The Joy Of Air Crash Investigation
We live in an age of sensationalism. There are only so many pairs of eyes that can be directed in any one direction at any time, and our fractured media landscape means that there...
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Can The FA Cup Relight My Fire?
It’s ten past two on a Saturday afternoon, and I’m walking across a field towards a turnstile. There’s one thing, though. This isn’t a metal gate at which I’m greeted by an old man...
4chan, Emma Watson & Cultural Acceptability
It can occasionally seem as if, when a news story comes along and hogs the headlines for a few days, we get too caught up on its specifics and cast anything like a broader...
The Hits Barometer – Making Love – The Very Best Of Air Supply
“Soft rock.” Think about that dread phrase for a moment. This is a genre of music that has largely slipped under my radar over the years. It was, I had always presumed, music for...
The Very Strange World Of Anthony Newley & Gurney Slade
It can be easy, sometimes, to look back upon the past through a prism of it being inherently conservative in its tastes. To watch a television programme from the past is to look look...
Catching The Mood: The Stylistics & The New York Fiscal Crisis Of 1975
A new series, in which we take a look at songs that, whether by accident or design, somehow capture the spirit of the period during which they were first released. First up, made in...
The Politics Of Polarsation
So I ummed and ahhed for a considerable amount of time over whether to include politics on the revised version of this website, I have to admit. On the one hand, there can be...
Oh, Hello There!
Long-term readers of this site may well have been wondering what has been going on around here for the last couple of months or so. Well, it should have been reasonably obvious for the...
Hamilton vs Rosberg
The coming together between Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg on the second lap of last Sunday’s Belgian Grand Prix was not a premeditated act of dastardly foreign intrigue, nor was it the death knell...
