On not hanging around
Since the pandemic, and this lockdown life, I’ve been asked to speak in many webinars, for a wide range of
Category: Asides
Changing the culture
My Twitter feed glows today with pictures of cultural activities and places, as people celebrate 25 years of National Lottery
Álvaro Restrepo: ‘Education is useless’
‘If education does not strengthen us, if it does not reveal us our vocation, our inner voice, and if it
It’s the end of the world as we know it
There’s been a lot of talk in recent years about the arts (and culture) being in crisis. There will be
Beyond control
I want the heart, I want the soul, I want control right now Badlands (1978) Bruce Springsteen ‘Shackled and Drawn’ During
Men to boys
I was in my teens when Morecambe and Wise were in their BBC glory days, each Christmas Special more keenly
Artists (still) teaching art
Many people read the post about the problems faced by artists teaching in Further Education recently, which described the threat
Artists teaching art
Mik Godley, the artist with whom I worked on Winter Fires, is threatened with redundancy from his part-time teaching post
Artful scientists
The relationship between art and science has been fractious since the Enlightenment, when practices that had often been seen as
A child’s view of the Miners’ Strike
Yesterday morning, Margaret Thatcher died. Her death has been followed by an explosion of polemic, encomium and vitriol, about what
Parliament of Dreams 