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.
CW editorial note - 4 March 2010
Heroic horizonsHigh-rise London, cynicism about heroes, and London theatre
CW editorial note - 25 February 2010
Doing politicsDeliberative democracy, My Name is Khan, and political performance
CW editorial note - 18 February 2010
I'm a woman, get me out of hereWomen and equality, Natasha Walter and public schools
CW editorial note - 11 February 2010
The Battle for PoliticsUK general election, POWER2010 and socially conscious films
The power is ours!
POWER2010 explainedPoliticians offer up various reforms, seemingly plucked from thin air, which they offer as the palliative cure for restoring ‘trust’ in the political system (and, of course, trust in them, the political class that manages it). But, so often, these reforms are touted with little regard for how they affect our democracy as a whole and not even a flickering recognition that the people themselves may like more than just a walk on part in this important discussion.
