“You can count me out… in” — Alan Bradshaw on fifty years of the Beatles’ “Revolution”
Author | Alan Bradshaw
On the fiftieth anniversary of the Beatles’ “Revolution”, Alan Bradshaw, co-author of Advertising Revolution: The Story of a Song, from Beatles Hit to Nike Slogan, recounts the story of one of the most famous and controversial adverts of all time. Fifty years ago, on 26 August 1968, the Beatles
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Altered Grammar: Re-reading Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four in the Time of Trump
Author | Darren Ambrose
Darren Ambrose, editor of k-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher (2004-2016), on Orwell, through Pynchon, in the age of Trump. There is a terrifying moment in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four just after Winston and Julia have spent their final stolen afternoon together in the attic room of the old
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“Football from Below” — An extract from 1966 and Not All That
In this edited extract from 1966 and Not All That, Sanaa Qureshi discusses the relationship between football and nationalism, and whether football can be used subversively to achieve social justice. 1966 and Not All That (paperback + free ebook and free shipping to the UK) is currently half price
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Football’s Coming “Home”—David Stubbs on Euro ’96, Three Lions and 90’s football lads
Author | David Stubbs
This is an edited extract from David Stubb’s 1996 & the End of History– available here and currently just £4.50 including UK postage in our half price World Cup sale. 1995 may have been the year that Britpop burst through, but 1996 was the year in which it loomed largest and was
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The World Cup, nationalism, and authentocracy — an extract from Games Without Frontiers
Author | Joe Kennedy
In this edited extract from Games Without Frontiers, Joe Kennedy analyses the relationship between the World Cup, politics, nationalism and authentocracy. Games Without Frontiers (paperback + free ebook and free shipping to the UK) is currently half price as part of our World Cup sale. His new book Authentocrats, was published last week
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Tariq Goddard in conversation with Brett Anderson from Suede
Author | Tariq Goddard
Tariq Goddard, Repeater publisher and author of Nature and Necessity, had a chat with Brett Anderson from Suede as part of Radio 4’s Only Artists series, which brings two artists together to talk about their creative work. You can listen to the programme in full here.
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