GABRIELE NEHER draws attention to an astoundingly skilled Flemish painter who defied the notion that women cannot paint like men
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(B)ordering Britain: Law, Race and Empire by Nadine El-Enany
Rigorous exposé of the role of British law in perpetuating and obscuring colonial divisions
The Bard pays homage to Hull’s finest promoter and venue, and awards Douze Points to Laibach
KEVIN DONNELLY outlines how the bourgeois institutions inhibit our ability to to view art in revolutionary ways, and suggests some tactics to overturn it
ANDY HEDGECOCK welcomes an accessible - and optimistic - take on our relationship to new technology
JOHN GREEN suggests that a new, biased, and highly readable re-hash of the story of the Cambridge Five be taken with a large pinch of salt
BRENT CUTLER welcomes a timely reminder of the long history of protests and the outdoor spaces in which they takes place
NADINE EL-ENANY’S argument in (B)ordering Britain is very simple. “Britain” is a storehouse of the stolen wealth of a global empire, to which the so-called native inhabitants have no exclusive right.
Thus its immigration laws constitute an act of ongoing colonial violence and irregularised “illegal” immigration is an act of anti-colonial resistance.
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