As sparks fly up from the welding rods, the beak of a bald eagle emblazoned on the welder’s mask curves menacingly towards the viewer. With comic-book subtlety the image screams: American industrial ...
Our first stop in east Las Vegas was drenched in ersatz gore: fake zombie limbs, scattered femurs, a plastic skull.
There comes a moment when people realise that all these manifestations of ‘liberal values’ are cover for what is happening on the ground. The number of signatories to the boycott open letter has now ...
When Verdi’s Nabucco was first performed in 1842, Milanese audiences were quick to see their own situation under Austrian ...
Analogies with 20th-century fascism are not particularly helpful for understanding our times, but one parallel ...
At the beginning of the 20th century, the French ‘drank substantially more than any other people in the world’.
On budget day, Tom Johnson joins Malin Hay to discuss the revolution in numeracy and use of numbers in Early Modern England, from the black and white squares of the ‘reckoning cloth’ to logarithmic ...
By 1993, BP had already spent millions of pounds in Azerbaijan. But it was still a long way from being ready to ...
The enduring impact of war, poverty and neoliberal transformation are visible everywhere. Late Ottoman areas of ...