No Return to Political Inertia
New Labour was marked by its failure to break with Thatcherite continuity. Today, in everything from politics to pop culture, that sense of stasis is making its return.
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David Lee Astley writes on culture and politics.
New Labour was marked by its failure to break with Thatcherite continuity. Today, in everything from politics to pop culture, that sense of stasis is making its return.
Scottish director Bill Douglas made compelling cinema about his upbringing in a mining village and the Tolpuddle martyrs – but in the decades since his death, it has become far harder to be a working-class filmmaker.