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‘… a child who was robbed of his belongings by a greedy world’.[1] Sex, love, power and variations of politics in the world of developing queer sexualities and why queer men feel they have to ‘learn to face loss’ in a rather wider range of life-situations than their heteronormative peers. This is a blog on … More ‘… a child who was robbed of his belongings by a greedy world’. Sex, love, power and variations of politics in developing queer sexualities. A blog on: Chukwuebuka Ibeh (2024) ‘Blessings’.

‘It is not surprising that each year Balfour Day is celebrated by the friends of Israel and mourned by Palestine’s Arabs’.[1] Does a thrilling and beautiful film like Michael Winterbottom’s Soshana (2024) help us to understand the role of British colonialism in creating the problems of the land between ‘the river (Jordan) and the sea’. … More ‘It is not surprising that each year Balfour Day is celebrated by the friends of Israel and mourned by Palestine’s Arabs’. Does a thrilling and beautiful film like Michael Winterbottom’s ‘Soshana’ (2024) help us to understand the role of British colonialism in creating the problems of the land between ‘the river (Jordan) and the sea’.

In Jack Thorne’s script from The Motive and The Cue, the character  named as the film actor Hume Cronyn, the husband of Jessica Tandy, says when he is reminded of the fact that his wife is better known than him, says: ‘Darling, better to touch the stars than never to know them at all’.[1]  This … More This blog is a preparation for seeing the National theatre screening of ‘The Motive and the Cue’ at the Gala cinema, Durham, on the 21st February 2024.

Sean O’Hagan says in recounting an interview in The Observer with Jonathan Glazer that the film he directs, The Zone of Interest, is ‘… the embodiment of the Jewish writer Primo Levi’s insistence that it is ordinary people, rather than monsters, who are capable of committing atrocity. “Monsters exist,” wrote Levi, a Holocaust survivor, “but … More Sean O’Hagan says that ‘The Zone of Interest’, is ‘… the embodiment of the Jewish writer Primo Levi’s insistence that it is ordinary people, rather than monsters, who are capable of committing atrocity. This is a blog on Jonathan Glazer’s film.

This is a blog that reflects on a fine biography, perhaps the best I have ever read of anyone, of Frantz Fanon. The book is Adam Shatz (2024) The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon London, Head of Zeus, Bloomsbury Publishing Co. Frantz Fanon has fascinated me for a long time. I can’t … More This is a blog that reflects on a fine biography, perhaps the best I have ever read of anyone. The book is Adam Shatz (2024) ‘The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon’.

‘History is all omissions and distortions of the truth’.[1] Would there be any point in writing a novel using evidence of facts from queer history, if the truth was easily sifted from the lies? This is a very brief blog on Neil Blackmore (2023: 272) Radical Love London, Hutchinson. This blog is just a speculation … More ‘History is all omissions and distortions of the truth’. Would there be any point in writing a novel using evidence of facts from queer history, if the truth was easily sifted from the lies? This is a very brief blog on Neil Blackmore (2023: 272) ‘Radical Love’