Black Sky Thinking
Essays, investigation and opinion on today’s cultural landscape
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It’s Time For Brits To Stop Fawning Over US Politics & Set Our House In Order
From the reaction to this just-completed American election, you'd think that Britain was the 51st State. Luke Turner argues that it's time for us to stop looking over the Atlantic, and prepare for 2015 in our own back yard
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For Those About To Mope: How Rock Learned To Love The Smiths & Morrissey
The battle lines were clear in the 1980s: you either loved Iron Maiden or you loved The Smiths, you couldn’t love both. So how did it come to pass that Morrissey would release a pop punk album and become one of the most dropped names in metal and heavy rock? John Doran investigates
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An Olympic Cynic On Why Britain Won More Than Medals
Olympic cynic Luke Turner was largely won over by the achievements of the London Games. Here he argues that, despite all the still-extant reservations about how the Olympics are run, the true legacy ought not be Team GB's bling, but a Coalition-proof sense of our National identity
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Martin Amis, Geezer-Prat, & His Unfortunate Clichés Of Britishness
With the release of cynical new novel Lionel Asbo: State Of England, argues Alex Niven, Martin Amis continues the patronising run of form that helped install the pernicious and cliché-ridden notion of 'Cool Britannia' and ultimately Boris and Dave's Big Society
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Vive La France! Lessons The UK Can Learn From Hollande’s Election Victory
Hollande's victory for the French Socialist Party in the weekend's Presidential Elections provoked outpourings of emotion and solidarity of the sort rarely seen in the UK, says Joe Kennedy. Photograph thanks to Valerio Berdini
