Liberal comedians as lapdogs for power
13
Feb
Chalk and cheese. Lee Camp talks to Chris Hedges about the few comedians who really do call out the crimes of power – and the many who play at it. * * *
Category Archives: life
Porn in the Park probe: “arrests imminent”
8
Feb
Endcliffe Park Cafe, where stunned witnesses gathered for hot tea and mutual solace South Yorkshire Police say they are closing in on the Endcliffe Park snow-pornography ring that today left park visitors, many with small children, in shocked dismay. Some … Read More »
Tony Blair: “the NHS is safe in our hands”
7
Feb
In 2021, Blair told ITV News, “vaccination is your route to liberty.” He called unvaccinated people “idiots” and urged the UK government to introduce vaccine passes. What he didn’t say was that his Tony Blair Institute for Global Change had … Read More »
Raising the pension age in Britain
6
Feb
Media yesterday announced a new report that the state pension age for Britons “may need” to rise to 71. I got mine – plus free bus travel in England, also under threat – at 65. The threshold now stands between … Read More »
TV Review: Mr Bates v the Post Office
10
Jan
It’s not easy taking on a corporate body better funded and more powerful than yourself. In its small way my nine year battle with Sheffield Hallam University testifies to that. Many aspects of this week’s ITV offering, Mr Bates v … Read More »
The lighter side of horror
2
Jan
This is for all in desperate need of a good laugh – and who the fuck isn’t? – without it taking a scintilla from the genocidal insanity of its subject. Steel city reader Dave Hansell sent this not half an … Read More »
The parable of the sower
29
Sep
Never has the world seemed a more dangerous place, nor more in the thrall of power-servingly mendacious accounts of why. The first fills me with alarm but also an imperative. The second can throw those like me – seeking, with … Read More »
The night the cops tried to break Thelonius Monk
23
Aug
Hear Eric Dolphy’s tribute to Monk. From his 1964 album, Out to Lunch, Hat and Beard was an early steel city tune for the day . A fine piece of writing on an undisputed giant of jazz appeared in CounterPunch … Read More »
Sinéad O’Connor: artist and heroine
6
Aug
I’m not in the Socialist Equality Party, hosts of WSWS, and while I respect that entity, have a few bones of contention with its worldview. But if you think Trotskyist groups necessarily reductive in their approach to the arts, think … Read More »
Steel city house gets new keyboard mat!
5
Aug
Steel city scribblings is back in the steel city, after nigh on five years in Nottingham. Its news room, control panel and nerve centre is sited in the attic of our typically Sheffield – two-up, two-down with an attic – … Read More »