I read an article that advanced many of the same tropes I have seen advanced by people insistent we are in culture war, that they must win or the left shall wipe all liberty from the earth…Here follows my rebuttal…
Summer is in full swing, the climate is collapsing quite gloriously, I have returned as harbinger of social media doom. Yes that’s right, I’m back, and this time with TWO, count em, two goddamn degrees. Today, let’s talk about the reaction I expected from the pissbabies of the internet. Marvel announced its Phase 4 slate,…
Hello all, It is with a heavy heart that I am announcing the winding up of The Liberal Cynics for the time being. We were ambitious and I think in the time we were operating, we produced some really insightful content. What the future holds, I am unsure, but from us here at TLC, it’s…
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In this political pandemonium created by Britain’s vote to exit the EU where the value of our currency is dropping faster than the Labour shadow cabinet and angry posts litter your social media feeds, it seems that one very important area of impact is being overlooked: Culture.
There is another article on this site which is expressing disapproval at the “political class” and how it is they who have delivered us Brexit. The writer claims not to blame the voters who chose Brexit but all manner of other socio-economic factors which have left them in a position where Brexit appears a fair…
(Editor: I decided a bit of satire was in order. With Britain leaving the EU, and Game of Thrones leaving our screens for a year, the time was ripe.) Britain has voted to leave the EU, Brexit has come, and in the wake of this many have been speculating what future we might expect. Amid…
(Editor: An impassioned polemic by our writer Jake Daniels, delivering the rage many have felt in the past few days.) To the political class, You did this. All of you. All the politicians and members of parliament in your little partisan circles. It feels like a member of the family has died; the youth of…
“Gayby Baby speaks to the changing shape of the modern family, and contours this rise in demographic of children with same-sex parents.” Maya Newell, Director OF ‘Gayby Baby’ I sat down with Maya Newell to discuss film as a force for change in the LGBT+ Community.
The EU-Brexit debate covers a lot of ground. So much ground that the British public will either be glad to hear the end of it on Friday, or will find the debate incomplete, depending on the results for who hoped what. As the Liberal Cynic’s environmental editor, my priorities in engaging in the debate lie…
(Editor: The recent stirrings at the NUS over Malia Bouattia had us looking back at over similar furore in the last year, and we recalled there was an article we had never put up for some reason that still felt relevant now) Recently comments have been made by the director of OFFA – Prof Les…
(Editor: Ciaran Cresswell, on the last day you can register to vote in the referendum, let’s us in on why sovereignty ain’t all that.) I’ve been rather obsessed with the EU referendum of late. I’ll be frank, I’m a remainer, or a ‘remanian’ as Monsieur Farage recently put it. So if you too hail from…
Modern art seems to have gotten itself a reputation for being a load of squiggles and lines haphazardly thrown onto a canvas and called ‘art’. The catchphrase for the modern art movement has widely been ‘A two year old could have done that!’, and it’s very much a Marmite movement in that sense, but it’s…
So as I can’t expect the team to be juggling family engagements, assignments, and their commitments to the blog, I will say in advance that any posts this December will be particularly unexpected. This is an official hiatus, unlike our many unofficial lapses. Have an amazing holiday from all of us here at The Incidental…
Over the course of the last year, we have witnessed the latest attacks in a seemingly endless story of human tragedy. Thousands of lives have been lost and millions more have been twisted beyond recognition. They weren’t the first, and they won’t be the last, but you could be forgiven for thinking that some of…
November is normally a delightful, optimistic month in our part of the world, with winter still a novelty and Christmas just round the corner. This November is a different story. Not because the continuum of world horrors are any worse or more numerous than they ever have been, but because these horrors have intruded on…
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