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Saturday, 1 August 2020
Folklore – Taylor Swift’s eighth studio album she released in a surprise move last Friday – is a triumph. Heart-breaking, story-telling, …
Continue reading "Why Taylor Swift’s Folklore is her best album yet"
By Francesca Peacock
Saturday, 25 July 2020
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Saturday, 11 July 2020
Some two scenes after Brutus et al have stabbed Julius Caesar in Shakespeare’s play of the same name, “Cinna the …
Continue reading "Shakespeare against cancel culture"
By Francesca Peacock
Saturday, 27 June 2020
An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying King; Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow Through public scorn,—mud …
Continue reading "Shelley’s England in 1819 and the true meaning of liberty"
By Francesca Peacock
Saturday, 13 June 2020
Last week, the Government banned sex. Legislation laid before Parliament on the 1 June prohibited any gathering that is “indoors” and …
By Francesca Peacock
Saturday, 6 June 2020
I have a bit of a confession to make. I once was a quite (read: very) committed fan of The …
Continue reading "On the Record: The 1975’s Notes on a Conditional Form"
By Francesca Peacock
Saturday, 23 May 2020
Something has happened at the Royal Academy: someone below the age of fifty, and very out-of-step with their normal non-pandemic …
Continue reading "Coronavirus and the arts: The Royal Academy goes virtual"
By Francesca Peacock
Saturday, 2 May 2020
At the end of Pure, and indeed for much of the series, I was in floods of tears. This could be …
Continue reading "Channel 4’s Pure, a comedy about OCD, is pure dead brilliant"
By Francesca Peacock
Saturday, 18 April 2020
There’s a moment in The Bell (1973), where Dora – a young art-student turned wife married to her lecturer who has already left …
Continue reading "A quarantined love-letter to Iris Murdoch"
By Francesca Peacock
