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Searchlight are watching - an open letter reply from Henry Hopwood-Phillips
by The Editor
Dear Comrade/Sir, It is always a pleasure to be described as blinkered throw-backs by a magazine that has famously failed to move on from the delusional metaphysics of the Cold War. Contrary to all evidence, Nazis see Race as the great metanarrative. Similarly Searchlight, as bona fide Communists, no doubt see Class in the same…
On Democracy
by The Editor
By Edward Spalton - By "Democracy" most people also assume a limited government, securing property rights and constrained by law but that is not inherent in the word itself which simply means "rule by the people" who can be stupid, brutish, selfish, capricious and destructive.
The Definition of Art
by The Editor
By David Hamilton. There is confusion about what art is. The qualities that make something art are intrinsic, not external. It is the artifice, the organising of elements, perspective, choice of colour etc, that make it art. The result is obtained by transforming reality and thus nature through human imagination and emotion and is realised by skill and technique. The word Beauty (or beautiful) is descriptive if used as an adjective to express the response of the beholder to an object, or if used within a clear context; if used as an abstract noun it is universal, and therefore meaningless.
Reflections on the Riots 2011
by The Editor
By Henry Hopwood-Phillips. The Establishment were morally and intellectually helpless on those balmy summer days in 2011 when it came to condemning the rioters because ultimately the rioters were acting out the hypocritical double-think nihilism that the Establishment profess to believe in but would never carry out to its natural conclusion.
The Corrosion of Modern Drama
by The Editor
By David Hamilton - 'In 2009 Ben Stephenson, the controller of BBC drama commissioning, said that the corporation should encourage "peculiarity, idiosyncrasy, stubborn-mindedness, left-of-centre thinking." Yet, according to its own royal charter, the BBC must "be independent in all matters concerning the content of its output". To show how we got to this undemocratic, totalitarian state I give a survey of the war on our culture and history carried on against us in our theatres for over thirty years.'