OLD HIPPIE WEEK TURNS TO TECHNICOLOUR NIGHTMARE!

First I spot Sid Rawle “King of the Hippies” in Corn Street in Bristol. Then on Friday night at Housmans in London Jeff Laster tells me there’s a 40th anniversary celebration of 1967’s “24 Hour Technicolour Dream” at the ICA the following day.
Though I’m now a thoroughly hardcore ferocious Ross Kemp baldie, I’m not [...]

BLACKBURN OLYMPIC see off The Old Etonians

‘In common with many another part of our culture football was a working-class pursuit colonised by a middle-class establishment.’
D.J.Taylor

No - Taylor was not talking about the middle-class discovery and colonisation of football by David Baddiel, Nick Hornby et al in the 1990s but the same process 100 years earlier.
Football, which had been glorious free–for-all [...]

Anarchy on Tristan Da Cunha

In 1937, as part of a Norwegian scientific expedition, PETER MUNCH visited Tristan Da Cunha. He was surprised to discover that the form of social organisation on the island was ANARCHY… And had been for over 100 years.
There was no government, police, money or headman/woman. Munch wrote, ‘The principles of freedom and anarchy were [...]