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  PIG IRON 1: How Money Works

  Essays in Dignity and Political Economy. Part 1: In which we attempt to explain what money is.

  April 21, 2026
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  PIG IRON 0: What This Is

  Essays in Dignity and Political Economy. Part 0: In which we explain what this is for.

  April 21, 2026
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  What is art? … according to me and my new mate Claude

  17th April 2026 Preamble It’s been a few years since I took this blog seriously. It started as a way of recording and illuminating my own cultural life. Following quasi retirement and concomitant dormancy. It branched out a bit. But it all got a bit much to maintain. And Covid…

  April 17, 2026
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  Faustus: That Damned Woman at the Lyric Hammersmith review ***

  Faustus: That Damned Woman Lyric Hammersmith, 5th February 2020 I bet Chris Bush was good at English at school and maybe beyond. In the precis question. For she has an unerring eye/ear/pen for taking complicated/contentious/convoluted issues and dramas and rendering them explicable, topical and entertaining. Kicking off with TONY! The…

  April 25, 2020
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  Don Carlos at the Rose Kingston review ****

  Don Carlos Rose Theatre Kingston, 9th November 2018 No one could accuse Friedrich Schiller of holding back in Don Carlos. Goethe inspired Sturm und Drang Romanticism, a Kantian paean to the centrality of personal freedom and democracy, the clash of liberty and tyranny, a stab at the sublime, a (loose)…

  November 23, 2018
• Colonialism Culture Literature London Philosophy Theatre

  The Outsider at the Print Room Coronet review ****

  The Outsider Print Room Coronet, 19th September 2018 Tricky one this. I can’t pretend I was pinned back in my seat by the two and a half hours of Ben Okri’s adaptation of Albert Camus’ absurd existentialist classic written in 1942. Abbey Wright’s careful direction injects a little humour, (a…

  October 1, 2018
• Culture London Philosophy Theatre

  The Prisoner at the National Theatre review **

  The Prisoner National Theatre Dorfman, 12th September 2018 OK. I should have known better. Having been bemused by Battlefield at the Young Vic in 2016 I still signed up for The Prisoner despite knowing full well I was likely set for a repeat experience. Peter Brook, and long time collaborator…

  September 25, 2018
• Culture London Philosophy Theatre

  Exit the King at the National Theatre review ****

  Exit the King National Theatre Olivier, 15th August 2018 My first Ionesco play, albeit in a version adapted by ubiquitous wunderkind Patrick Marber, (one day the image of Peter O’Hanraha-hanrahan that pops up at the mention of his name will pass), and, all things considered I liked what I saw…

  August 31, 2018
• Culture London Philosophy Theatre

  An Oak Tree the Orange Tree Theatre review ****

  An Oak Tree Orange Tree Theatre, 13th May 2018 Tim Crouch’s An Oak Tree has been on my theatrical wish list for a little while now. First performed in 2005 at the Edinburgh Fringe it was, I understand, inspired by Michael Craig-Martin’s, (he of the day-glo technology), seminal work of…

  May 26, 2018