Defund culture

Gary Hall ~ RP 2.12 (Spring 2022), pp. 62–68 ~ Commentary

Following the spread of the Omicron variant this winter there have been renewed calls for the UK Government to fund the arts and culture through the Sars-CoV-2 pandemic and beyond. ‘We are in crisis mode’, Nicolas Hytner, former artistic director of the National Theatre, told the BBC’s Newsnight programme. ‘We need to see short-term finance, […]

Outline of gun filled with machines early twentieth-century machines on a read background with the text Weapons of Mass Creation below

Beware: Medical Police

Brendan McQuade and Mark Neocleous ~ RP 2.08 (Autumn 2020), pp. 3–9 ~ Article

Cops forcibly removing someone from a bus for not wearing a face mask, arresting people for failure to socially distance on a crowded subway platform, moving people on if they look like they are socialising in excessive numbers, determining who can attend a public event. This is the new reality of policing the virus. The […]