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Review: The Algorithm: How AI Can Hijack Your Career And Steal Your Future, by Hilke Schellmann
This review first appeared in the Morning Star A friend of mine once wrote a sketch about a management training guru, who claimed to have invented a tool that can tell “whether you’re a blue, a green, a red or… a dickhead.” Compared to the products and procedures documented in Hilke Schellmann’s The Algorithm: How Read more
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Review: Julia Masli, Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, Soho Theatre
This article first appeared in the Morning Star newspaper. Can clowns save the world? This probably wasn’t what Julia Masli, an Estonian performer trained by the notorious Parisian pedagogue Philippe Gaulier, had set out to achieve with her latest. Still, you never know. Masli always aims high, with seemingly limitless reserves of care, poise, and Read more
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Renationalising Dolly Parton
A review of 9-5 – The Musical. This first appeared in The Morning Star. 9-5: The Musical The Polish Theatre, London, 4/7/2023 A lingering life regret: passing up the opportunity to go to Dollywood, the Dolly Parton themed attraction in the Tennessee Smoky Mountains. Driving past the gates, thinking: what madness lies within there? Plastic Read more
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Cosmonauts exhibition, Science Museum: Morning Star column 27/10/2015
“Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot remain in the cradle forever.” If you’re a child of the space race who grew up in the West, a visit to the Science Museum’s Cosmomauts exhibition is both familiar and otherworldly. There it all is again, the wonder and the strangeness, the future dreams and Read more
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