Matthew Carr's Blog, page 37
June 16, 2016
Interview for In These Times
My interview for In These Times. You can read the rest here:
June 14, 2016
The Devils of Cardona: Publication Day
Today is the official publication date in the US for my first novel The Devils of Cardona, and it’s a date that I’ve been looking forward to for a long time. The novel comes out of my earlier history of … Continue reading →
June 12, 2016
In the gutter with Boris and Nigel
I don’t know if you’re enjoying the referendum readers, but I can tell you that I’m not. I can’t think of any national political process that has taken place in my lifetime that I’ve found so constantly dispiriting and depressing … Continue reading →
June 10, 2016
Hillary Clinton: Your Feminist Solutions
There’s a certain kind of feminism that gives feminism a bad name. Like Jess Phillips’s ludicrous but headline-grabbing allegation that Jeremy Corbyn was guilty of ‘low-level misogyny’. Or the way the media rallied round Laura Kuenssberg to depict those who … Continue reading →
June 4, 2016
Donald Trump: American Fascist?
Just so you know, I’m not a fan of Donald Trump. I despise his racism and xenophobia, his brutal sexism, his shallowness, vacuousness, and egomania, his cultish ‘I can fix everything because I am Trump’ policy prescriptions. I’m repelled by his sociopathic … Continue reading →
May 25, 2016
Tony Blair Says Sorry (again)
The Chilcot Inquiry report really does look as though it’s only weeks away from publication, and Blair already out apologising for Iraq once again. Blair last did this back in October last year, when it also looked as though Chilcot … Continue reading →
May 22, 2016
Interview with Jackie Walker
Few people who pay attention to such things will have failed to notice the stridently McCarthyite atmosphere that has descended on British politics since the election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party last year. Needless to say, … Continue reading →
May 19, 2016
Son of Saul
In these dismal times, when the issue of ‘left antisemitism’ are being ruthlessly and cynically instrumentalised within British politics in an attempt to neutralize opposition to the Israeli state, and destroy the leftist surge within the Labour Party, it’s salutary … Continue reading →
May 14, 2016
Truth, Lies, and Politics
In Werner Herzog’s The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, a pompous eighteenth-century professor asks the idiot-savant Kaspar Hauser a variant of the classic logical puzzle: You are traveling down a path and come to a fork in the road. One fork … Continue reading →
April 28, 2016
The Antisemitism Circus Comes to Town
The last few days of Labour’s ‘antisemitism crisis’ have been a genuine education for me on many levels. I had thought that Naz Shah’s retweeting of a crass twitter meme suggesting that Israel should be reestablished in the United States … Continue reading →
