“I’ll tell you what I want, What I really, really want,” sang the Spice Girls many years ago. A message the people of England have been trying to impress upon their government through strikes by nurses, railway staff, teachers and many other workers. What people ‘really, really want’ are not the government’s fabricated culture wars, […]
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Parasite Politics and Everyday Dreams
‘We are such stuff as dreams are made on.’ (The Tempest. Act 4. Scene 1). Shakespeare could never have known how this line would transmute into the throbbing heart of political dramas in the 21stcentury, connecting the people and the parasite; becoming both promise and betrayal. Voters dream of jobs and homes while politicians and […]