Blogs
Culture Wars blogs allow contributors to take a critical and considered look at particular current events and phenomena as and when they happen. Our weekly editorial notes are also archived here.
Our first blog was Geoff Kidder's seven-part series on the Beijing Olympics.
New: Dolan Cummings on the US elections and Sarah Boyes on the Cultural Olympiad.
Geoff Kidder, director of membership and events at the Institute of Ideas, follows his seven-part series on the Beijing Olympics with coverage of the 2010 Football World Cup in South Africa and other developments in sport.
Discussion of the four-year celebration of culture leading up to the London Olympics, 2012.
The Whingeing Nation
A medical student takes aim at the relentless negativity of contemporary BritainWhat irks the most is when the pungent smell of negativity crops up in a system that is working. Criticism should be constructive for it to be justified. Rants about the myriad problems in society only serve to fuel the fire of cynics who pick apart the threads of progress.
CW editorial note - 16 August 2010
ShowtimeEdinburgh festivals, Brutalism and Cognitive Surplus
The legacy of Brutalist vitality
The People’s Republic of Hulme, BBC Radio 4 / English Heritage: Romancing the Stone, BBC2Yet Kermode and many other Hulme residents found something to celebrate in this dystopian existence. A transient and extraordinarily vibrant mix of people descended upon Hulme as the opportunity for cheap or free housing in the very heart of Manchester led to waves of youthful creative energy.
CW editorial note - 29 July 2010
Motors of historyFerraris for All and The Case for Working with Your Hands
CW editorial note - 19 July 2010
Man unveiledErnest Hemingway, the Taureg people, arts funding and the World Cup final
