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
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…
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Related essays from March 2024 include:
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
[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…
‘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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