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March '24: Things Can Only Get Better
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March '24: Things Can Only Get Better

Out-dated opinions with New Labour

March 2024 in The Metropolitan has included a lot of discussion of the future, the past and notions of progress, and so this month’s podcast is

reading her essay from March 2022: Things can only get better.

Things can only get better

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March 26, 2022
Things can only get better

Life on Mars, BBC, 2006-2007 A Journey, Tony Blair, 2010 Although I stayed up for Portillo on the night of the 1997 General Election, I hadn’t actually voted Labour that day. I thought that Blair was too right-wing and that my local Labour candidate was awful, so I voted Green instead. (My local Labour candidate was Kate Hoey, so to be fair I was right ab…

Our theme music is Otra vez by friend of the show S F Gallardo, who you can find on Spotify and Bandcamp

Related essays from March 2024 include:

OK, Boomer

OK, Boomer: The Ascent of Man

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March 16, 2024
OK, Boomer: The Ascent of Man

Every generation recasts the cultural canon, but the Boomers, with their socio-political firepower, blew it all up. From Monty Python to Spike Lee, from Prince to Wolf Hall, they scorned the old orthodoxies, rediscovered forgotten gems and created a whole new corpus of culturally awesome content. And then never stopped going on about it. But were their …

Back to the future

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March 9, 2024
Back to the future

[Spoilers for Loki (2021), Severance (2022) and Silo (2023)] The story goes that George Orwell arrived at the title 1984 simply by reversing the last two digits of 1948, the year he finished writing. This gave him — almost incidentally — a setting forty years in the future. (Like many stories, this might not be true but equally it’s too good to disbelie…

Can We Show The Kids?

‘Sleeper’ Revisited

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March 2, 2024
‘Sleeper’ Revisited

Certain films capture your heart at 15, but how awkward and old-fashioned would they make you feel if you watched them with a teenager now? And what horrifying things might they reveal about the person you once were? Avoid embarrassment, and the waste of £1.49 in rental fees, by letting us take the risk on your behalf.

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