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Charlie Bird

Charlie Bird is a freelance writer.

Why We Need Socialist Spotify

The exploitation of artists by streaming services like Spotify has been fully exposed by the Covid pandemic – but there is an alternative to corporate monopoly music: a platform built for the common good.

No-Places and Good-Places

Massive Attack’s new EP consists of three audiovisual lectures on basic income, tax avoidance and climate change as an attempt to visualise a ‘eutopia’ – an attainable ‘good-place.’