The right to assume
Amongst my friends, and definitely amongst people I do not gel with, I am a notorious party-pooper. I take pride in being annoying, and I have no problem shutting down jokes by chiming in with a grating, ‘am I the only one who doesn’t find that funny?’ whenever I deem it necessary. In
Under Review: Oleanna
While linguist Robin Lackoff claims that men in academia are a group which has “taken itself out of the search for power and money”, the intersection between education, elitism, status, and masculinity is writ large in Boulevard Productions’ excellent new adaptation of David Mamet’s Oleanna,
re: The death penalty in Israel
On March 30, the Israeli Knesset passed a law that expanded the use of capital punishment in its justice system. The bones of the system look like this: In the civil court system, the death penalty can now be applied to any individual who acts with the intent of ‘negating the exist
Reform: the first anti-university party
Reform have had a tough time on university campuses. Last month, Bangor University’s Debating and Politics Society rejected a request from Sarah Pochin MP and Jack Anderton, a party spokesman, to give a question-and-answer session at one of their events. Anderton, a key advisor to Nigel Farage, ha
You can’t stay buried for long: On Ruins
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is nothing new under the sun. Ecclesiastes 1:9 Ivy breaches the masonry; It seems filled up with the past, as it indeed is. Did Sir Lancelot once ride here? Was […]
Heated Rivalry is Menshevik yaoi
I am quoting a friend of a friend. ‘Heated Rivalry is straight media. Love Story is queer media. She (CBK) is for white women and gay men with high taste.’ There is a gulf between gay men who like hockey players and gay men who like JFK Jr., between men who Carolyn dates [&
Prince Consort Ladygirl: Preshow interview
Red Threaded Theatre 4th-8th March O’Reily Theatre As we know all too well, sitting an exam is about the most stressful thing expected of us in our young lives. Our main concern, of course, is failing. But for the cross-dressing protagonist of this spirited Chinese Opera (translated into En
Women? The Convent?
Since British Vogue declared boyfriends uncool, I’ve been unable to stop thinking. Thinking, perhaps too simply, about the volumes of criteria we’ve invented and refined to categorize women: hot, lame; cool-girl, weird-girl, boyfriend-girl; mob-wife, homemaker. Thinking, perhaps too abstractly,
The Politics of Crewdate
The crewdate insists on two things: that it is extremely important, and that it does not matter at all. My first crewdate produced a story that gets told relatively often, much to my dismay. It occurred on the third day of Freshers’ Week. I did not have the faintest idea what the term entai