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Sad Season: Ze Records’ Christmas Album, 40 Years On

Ian MacMillan looks back 40 years to Ze Records’ classic festive compilation, and finds a Yuletide ‘state of the nation’ that captured an America burdened with financial struggle, loneliness, broken relationships and malaise

Black Sky Thinking

Sensation Nation: Blair, Oasis, Cocaine, Diana & British Maximalism 1997

Twenty-five years ago, Ian MacMillan was an arts writer and TV producer witnessing the madness of the YBA's Sensation exhibition first hand. Looking back, he argues it was representative of a shallow yet maximalist moment in British culture

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