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‘Where the pavement turns to sand’ Sleaford Mods & Neil Young (1979)

This recent collaboration between Nottingham-formed Sleaford Mods (Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn) and the collage-satirist Cold War Steve (aka Christopher Spencer) has produced this amazing combination of song and video UK Grim. Spencer’s framing for the video, takes our eyes roving precisely across pantomime collages that capture a state of the UK, across the powerful […]

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Arts Decimation in UK Education

Just finished reading this piece in the Guardian about Sheffield Hallam University closing their English literature degree. This is just the latest in a line of such actions by Universities in the UK, as they conform with the dead-eyed prescriptions of this government that learning to think, to read and study and gain deeper understanding, […]