We could slip away

It sent me down a rabbit-hole of early twentieth century US socialist publishing

Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Tolerate the Algorithm

There’s an oft-quoted maxim that “writing about music is like dancing about architecture”, usually attributed to musician and actor Martin Mull.

I was very struck by music critic Simon Reynolds’s latest book Still in a Dream, whose contents page is a veritable index of ‘bands I like’ - from the Cocteau Twins, through Felt and the Smiths and C8...

George Lansbury, women's suffrage and the 1912 Bow and Bromley by-election

News that former City trader turned Youtube economics influencer and wealth tax advocate Gary Stevenson is taking a break from the online world got me thinking about how mainstream opinion reacts to c...

Historian and writer, author of 'James Connolly: Socialist, Nationalist and Internationalist' (Merlin Press, 2022) - trade union rep and music obsessive. Click to read Liam's Substack, by Liam McNulty...

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