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.

Weekly archive of CW editorial notes.

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.

A critical perspective on the election campaign

Bite-sized blog thoughts.

Discussion of the four-year celebration of culture leading up to the London Olympics, 2012.

Editor Dolan Cummings on the state of American politics.

The Brighton Salon blog

News commentary from the Current Affairs Forum.

The Manchester Salon blog

Blog Recent
Friday 27 January 2012

Reading Margaret Thatcher

Why is Maggie such a current issue in the arts?

Investigating the legacy of Margaret Thatcher may seem, at first, to be a retreat from engaging with modern politics, but I believe exactly the opposite is taking place when contemporary artists turn to her. One way of understanding the present is to interrogate the past.

Saturday 14 January 2012

CW editorial note - 14 January 2012

Curtain up

London theatre, multiculturalism and the symphony

Thursday 5 January 2012

CW editorial note - 5 January 2012

Happy new year

Royal Manuscripts and postwar British painters

Friday 16 December 2011

CW editorial note - 16 December 2011

Cultural studies

Baudrillard, cognitive technology and London theatre

Friday 9 December 2011

CW editorial note - 9 December 2011

Reimagining the past

David Owen Norris on Winterreise with puppets, plus Shiraz Bayjoo at the Whitechapel Gallery and AD Miller’s Snowdrops

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