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Like a mother bird, capitalism regurgitates the digested media of the past into our mouths and we eat it up every time. In 2024 the top 10 highest grossing films all came from pre-existing intellectual property, and over half of the six major Hollywood studios movies for 2025 will likewise pull from existing IP.1

'When we finished the OK Computer tour, I had a sort of big... block. I basically thought that was it. I thought that I wouldn't be able to do whatever it is that I do again. We were still sort of working, but I had no faith in it. So I was in this endless cycle - and it was very much on my own as well, because we didn't see each other much for... See more

In a necromancy-esque ritual these celebrities and artists are risen from the grave, their corpses hoisted on puppet strings in another display of performance.

For that reason, this is definitely not the time to recline into the leftist version of capitalist realism, the defeatist counterpart to the Bullingdon club’s bullishness

“well, that’s what happens when you get into power – you give up your principles.”

But where, previously, neoliberals had used the crises in other political systems (state socialism, social democracy) as an opportunity to helicopter in their ‘reforms’, on this occasion they are using a crisis brought about by neoliberal policy itself to try to electro-shock the neoliberal programme back into life.

But the narrative of an overfunded public sector produce cognitive dissonance for those of us who have actually been delivering frontline public services in the last ten years, where we’ve been expected to do more work for less money and with fewer resources.

My only comment here is really that I find the domination of the privately educated over the last two years on mass musical culture (last year brat and this year Geese) just fucking dull. Geese make perfectly decent music - I think I enjoyed their record more than brat - but they come from a boring, moneyed place and the success of their white male... See more