Charlie Winstanley

April 2009

Mine the past, move on

The play’s blatant agenda as an agitprop piece for the ‘Reclaim Labour’ movement lead it into trouble as soon the central issue of Thatcher’s funeral begins to take shape.

November 2008

Ballooning humanity

The personal importance of the experiment to the lives of those involved is the central theme of the film, which at times boils over into genuine desperation and elation over its ups and downs.

Last week on Culture Wars


Heroic horizons
High-rise London, cynicism about heroes, and London theatre.
4 March 2010


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