June 28, 2016
Against the Continent
The walls are going up.
What was striking about the referendum debate was its solipsism.
Jon Day
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June 22, 2016
Breaking Point
It feels as though this referendum has unleashed the worst in us.
No one seems to know whether the stakes are very low or extremely high, or precisely what it is we’re debating.
May 8, 2015
Barring London, England is a terribly right-wing place, and it is ashamed of the fact.
The UK Election Disaster
September 24, 2012
Lionel Asbo constantly tells us how we should be hearing its characters speak, rather than letting us listen to them.
Down and Out
August 23, 2012
Now the runners are gone, and the tennis lessons are no longer free.
After the Olympics
April 5, 2012
Confessions of a Cycle Messenger
The Cycle Messenger World Championships are usually quite a lo-fi affair. In 2010 the race took place in Panajachel, a tiny town in the Guatemalan highlands, and resembled something from Mad Max. Guatemalans are allowed to carry guns as long as they’re kept on display, and a few messengers in Panajachel sported pistols alongside the radios and mobile phones they carried bandoleer style across their chests.
November 29, 2011
The familiar conflict between corporate and public interests is here being played out against a backdrop of ermine trim.
