Artist; have written, and curated, also. Head of Programme, Writing MA, at the RCA, London. jeremymillar.org Profile: https://jeremymillar.org/Notes-on-Gesture-for-H-C-2015 Header: https://jeremymillar.org/Neutral-Diluted-2007
Many people outside the UK have been asking me who Rod Liddle was. Here's Stewart Lee (from 08:53 onwards) on the man described by Fraser Nelson (former editor of The Spectator) as 'the greatest satirist since Swift.' Let this be the last word on the subject. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFt3...
Stewart Lee Comedy Vehicle - 4.5 MigrantsYouTube video by Ian Kennywww.youtube.com
If I were going to go really out on a critical limb, I would say that Nolan interpreted Odysseus as the guilt-ridden creator of a giant spectacle that eventually leads to mass illiteracy because he (Nolan) is ambivalent about his status as an auteur of big tentpole pictures.
Haters focusing on Liddle's violence toward his pregnant partner, his galloping racism, or his repeated defences of paedophilia, should remember to mention he was also one of the worst writers to ever do it. A calorie-free hack of the first water. Just absolute dogshit, back to front.
Ukraine Foreign Affairs Minister: "We have detected intensive Russian propaganda campaign across Europe using pictures from Ceuta to sow destabilisation." Far-right from EU (& US!) falls with open eyes for hybrid threats from the weaponisation of migration, even fan the flames. #unity #solidarity
It is good for the culture to have widely popular, capably made, aspirational middlebrow artworks.
Anna Kornbluhfor a few shining weeks, we have culture! lovers, haters, nerds, auteurs, popcorners, stunt guys all communing, summer action blockbuster meets humanist canon, art making ideas making more ideas, this is the middle ground
"Details, in their singularity and idiosyncrasy, point to the capaciousness of human experience." New today in the Society's journal 'Transactions': Joe Moran 'On Detail in Historical Writing': bit.ly/44UMi8C Now available OA @joemoransblog.bsky.social @massobsarchive.bsky.social #Skystorians 1/2
