All human activity is fruitless when pitted against the girls and boys singing on pop television’, Morrissey has written of his youth, ‘for they have found the answer as the rest of us search for the question.’ Posted on March 31, 2023 by
She, like our parents’ generation, belonged to a nation that despite its shortcomings – and there were many – had an identity and a confidence. ‘It is lack of confidence, more than anything else, that kills a civilisation’, the historian Kenneth Clark once said. ‘We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.’ Posted on March 30, 2023 by
When heels were higher than hopes, and the young and modern among us welcomed every breeze block that brought change. Ballard wrote about it. Bowie too. Then came Morrissey: ‘Amid concrete and clay and general decay, nature must still find a way’ Posted on March 30, 2023 by