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Metal and the Holocaust: Too Much Transgression?
What do you do when you are drawn to the bad guys, but the baddest guys around are just too bad?
Heavy Metal and Renewal: Rosh Hashanah in the end times
How metal’s Christian apocalyptic sensibility can ground hope for a Jewish new year of renewal.
The problem of love in Corbyn’s Labour Party: Reflections on Left Out
How Gabriel Pogrund and Patrick Maguire’s ‘Left Out’ shows how love was always a greater problem than hate in Corbyn’s Labour Party
On Bournemouth beach
The boundary-crossing of Haredim on the beach.
48 hours later: Now let’s confront our own hatefulness on Twitter.
Clearly, Twitter needs to change. The licence that allowed Wiley to continue with an antisemitic rant unimpeded for hours and days only highlights the persistent reluctance of the platform to prevent its use for hate, abuse and bullying. I don’t know whether a 48 hour Twitter silence is the most effective way of protesting, but […]
What if nothing changes?
WiIl the impact of Covid-19 be as ephemeral as the impact of the death of Diana?