While absentmindedly surfing channels a few evenings ago I was fortunate to chance on what turned out to be one of the most compelling films I’ve ever seen: The Epic of Everest, a new version of a 1924 documentary recording one of the earliest efforts to scale the mountain.
The rise of Greece’s Syriza may signal the emergence of a revitalised European social democracy.
Reflections on John Foxx’s Metamatic, a landmark in electronic music released 35 years ago this month.
There will be many others I don’t yet know about. And I’m sure I will not read everything listed below. But here are 10 books to be published in 2015 I’m looking forward to, summarised in alphabetical order.
I usually close out my blog for the year with a simple roundup of books I’ve particularly enjoyed. But 2014 has seemed a rather strange, transitional period, for reasons I’m still trying to define, so I thought I’d write a somewhat longer retrospective in the hope of making some sense of it.
That Option No Longer Exists: Britain 1974–76 by John Medhurst recalls a febrile period when the left came close to implementing a radical socialist economic strategy.
Some 12,000 SNP members, 3,500 Radical Independence supporters, several hundred bemused Country Living Christmas Fair shoppers, and – at least one – very quiet Labour member found themselves assembled on the banks of the Clyde on Saturday (22 November).