After his popular Election ’17 Specials – check out Part I, Part II and Part III – Jack Caramac returns with some post-election responses to the media, and to our political leaders, at home and abroad.
Election ’17 Results: Jack Caramac Special 1
Politics
How Mainstream Media ‘Manage’ Right-wing and Centrist Racism
A series of scandals expose the institutional racism of both the Westminster bubble and the London-based mass media. Labour’s alleged anti-Jewish racism is undisputed and condemned without equivocation. But right-wing racism is questioned and debated. [… read more ]
Fiction
Fresh off the Boat
Laszlo Dumitrescu Hello, people of Portsmouth, the English Riviera, my fellow Europeans. I arrive in your city from Romania to make a better life for my family. The weather was shining when we approach the [… read more ]
Politics
‘How Can This Be?’ The Surreal New World of Donald Trump
When he heard the news of Donald Trump’s unexpected victory, Portsmouth University cultural historian Dr Van Norris was forced to reckon with an uncomfortable new reality that feels weirder and more surreal than the weirdest [… read more ]