Only 8% Of Humans Can See This Number
Look carefully at the image above. Stare intently at the centre of the screen as though you were penetrating far beyond its shallow depth of however many centimetres. Try not to blink for at least thirty seconds. If you have to blink then do it several times quickly, shut your eyes for one minute, then resume viewing. Have you spotted…
Tories To Administer Test Before Vote Over Grammar Schools
It’s the rule rather than the exception when it comes to British politics, but the case of grammar schools offers an especially egregious example of wealthy, typically ageing and privately educated Conservatives telling the working class to forego their principles and do as they say if they wish to be better off. The sole argument in favour of the grammar…
‘Lunar Baedeker’ by Mina Loy (1923)
A silver Lucifer serves cocaine in cornucopia To some somnambulists of adolescent thighs draped in satirical draperies Peris in livery prepare Lethe for posthumous parvenues Delirious Avenues lit with the chandelier souls of infusoria from Pharoah’s tombstones lead to mercurial doomsdays Odious oasis in furrowed phosphorous – – – the eye-white sky-light white-light district of lunar lusts – – – Stellectric signs “Wing shows on Starway”…
Economic Shock As Britain Not Yet In The Trough
When it comes to the economic consequences of Brexit, there were always two things to consider. The first was and remains the very real long-term consequences involved in foregoing the freedom of movement, leaving the single market, and subjecting Britain to regulatory barriers in its trading relationship with the EU. The second was the financial sector’s propensity to shoot itself and…
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The Movie Guide: Pulp Fiction (1994)
If you think that Quentin Tarantino’s films are nothing but gratuitous violence, undignified tales full of sound and fury more often than not told out of sync, then just look at ‘The Gold Watch’ story strand from Pulp Fiction. In a scene that comes midway through the movie but precedes every other from a chronological standpoint, a young Butch Coolidge…
Chuka Umunna Squares Circle By Advocating Free Movement For Rich
Chuka Umunna has kept more or less to the shadows since withdrawing last spring from the race for the Labour leadership – just three days after he announced his candidacy, when he realised to his horror that by running he might draw the attention of the press. He has remained politically active, but has largely carried himself within the confines of…
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The Movie Guide: Jour de fête (1949)
Whether he was scuttling about the village or seaside, or gently satirising modern architecture and the impersonal clunk of automated machines, Jacques Tati always took circuitous routes but more often than not ended up right in the heart of his viewers. His films provided the inspiration for such worrying works as David Lynch’s Eraserhead and Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York,…
‘Hands Up, Don’t Sit’ Santa Clara Police Tell Colin Kaepernick
As the new NFL season closes in and San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick still refuses to stand for the national anthem, solutions from both interested and disinterested parties have rushed forth, at times with the desperation of a Hail Mary. Some say that the 49ers should demand that Kaepernick stand, or else take steps to dock the pay of the player…
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The Movie Guide: The Godfather (1972)
These days when someone suggests a night in with a movie trilogy, it feels like they’ve made you an offer you can’t refuse. We’re all well versed now when it comes to bingeing on series, content with sustaining our interest over drawn out periods and across lingering parts. But The Godfather by Francis Ford Coppola began the first American film with a…