In March 1940, Scott had written to Zelda with news that The Great Gatsby had been taken out of The Modern Library: “My God, I am a forgotten man!” [1] It was a big deal. Bigger than any of them might ever have imagined. The Modern Library, a publisher specialising in affordable modern classics, featured…
Category: 21st Century
The Manchester Arena Bombing
Download the full PDF Guide (170 pages, 950kb) The terror attack on the Manchester Arena came at a critical time in relations between Libya and Britain. Although the UN and Theresa May government were still backing the provisional government that the bomber’s Tripoli-based militia had been protecting , an increasingly influential advocacy group that included…
Death of Umberto Eco: Never Leaving, Always Arriving
He provided signposts in a world of infinite junctions, a road map in a world of infinite signs. Discovering Umberto Eco at University was a bit like discovering sex. During the long bleak months of winter 1990 I’d read his novel, The Name of The Rose back to back with Travels in Hyperreality — a…
Je Suis Charlie Manson – Isis Reboot Helter Skelter
When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slideWhere I stop and I turn and I go for a rideTill I get to the bottom and I see you againYeah yeah yeah hey Anonymous, the loose collective of anarchists and hacktivists who declared ‘war on terrorism’ as a response…
The Cult of Tradition: Let’s Make The Past Great Again! ™
Before you went to the bar, Mr Farage, we were talking about why people like you and me were jumping into our little spaceships and hurtling back through time. I was talking about time just being another modern consumable and argued that providing there were enough independent time traders like your good self around, going…
The Garden of the Dead: The Cult of Nostalgia & Romantic Nationalism in Europe
Take a good look at this picture from The Daily Telegraph. This is Nigel Farage, leader of the UK Independence Party. By the way, Nigel doesn’t have a life outside of this picture. He doesn’t have family, he doesn’t have friends, he doesn’t come from anywhere, and if current reports in the press are anything…