Culture
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Top 25 Albums of 2024
25. Mk.gee- Two Star & The Dream Police Distinctively grainy and hard to put in a box, this is the album that introduced me to the music of Mk.gee and his intoxicating blend of genres. Soulful and distorted, Two Star & The Dream Police delivers tune after tune that will get stuck in your head…
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Movie Mondays – The Last Year of Darkness
China’s scale is as imposing as it is surprising. Most Westerners won’t have heard of the city of Chengdu, never mind be able to place it on a map. And yet it’s massive – home to a population about two times greater than that of London’s. Understanding China can sometimes feel like an exercise in…
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Movie Mondays – The Iron Claw
Do we control our own destinies? Movie Mondays features The Iron Claw, a biopic of the Von Erich professional wrestling clan, which explores brotherly love and the struggle to break free from our fate.
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Book Club- ‘Stoner’
Seeing plenty of rave reviews piqued my interest in this novel and I went into John William’s ‘Stoner’ with high expectations and, suffice to say, it did not disappoint. This is the book that finally stirred me from my avoidance of writing since moving to Glasgow based purely on the simplistic beauty of Williams’ prose.…
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Book Club – ‘Otherlands’
Book club reconvenes as Charlie shares a run down on Thomas Halliday’s blockbuster history tour Otherlands.
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Movie Mondays: Aftersun
Few movies do so much with so little as Aftersun. In the modern age of filmmaking where projects like Avatar 2 can cost a quarter of a billion dollars to make Aftersun is very much on the other end of the spectrum, relying on two excellent performances and an amazingly personal script. This is the…
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Top 25 Albums of 2022
2022 has been a whirlwind of a year – the first full year post-covid without any covid lockdowns, and the closest we have come to normal for some time. There has been no shortage of year-defining events that have made headlines and caused sensation, but similarly no shortage of great music being released. One of…
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Movie Mondays- Boiling Point
This week for Movie Mondays I thought I’d talk about a movie from last year that I missed when making the best of 2021 list. Despite having its official release date last year, Boiling Point was widely released to the UK public back in March via Netflix. The entire hour and a half runtime amazingly…
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Inner Ears vol. 1
Welcome back to inertia. We return to you with a new musical feature titled Inner Ears, a fresh freeform feature where our contributors serve up some piping hot music recommendations. Based on what’s been streaming through our own headsets, hopefully you find some artists, albums and genres here to plug into that you’ll dig as…
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Movie Mondays- Paris, Texas
Sometimes it can feel like you’ve already watched most of the classics, or at least the ones that appeal to you most strongly. With such a rich back catalogue of brilliant films from across the world, it is to be expected that the occasional gem may pass you by entirely. Relying on streaming services as…
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