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.

Discussion of the four-year celebration of culture leading up to the London Olympics, 2012.
Policing the Brighton public
Brighton Salon, Thursday 25 June, and 'protest picnic', Saturday 27 June 2009After discussing many aspects of the booze ban in Brighton last week, it struck me that many of us were thinking about how this law might be fought in a legal way. I think that bringing it out into the open and forcing the council to defend it, politically, has a much better chance of reversing the DPPO sooner than any challenge in the courts.
CW editorial note - 19 June 2009
A right stateHuman rights, twenty-somethings and the recession, and Kursk
CW editorial note - 12 June 2009
Theatre and drinksLondon theatre, opera and dance, and the case for a drinking culture
CW editorial note - 5 June 2009
Real jazz and Real peopleJazz mythology, Žižek’s Violence and Wendy and Lucy.
CW editorial note - 29 May 2009
Speaking up and speaking outFree speech and deception, Philip Ó Ceallaigh’s short stories and London theatre.





