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Tag Archives: culture

“Do One Thing Every Day That Scares You”: Comfort Zones, Vulnerability and Success

February 13, 2015

“Do one thing every day that scares you” is one of those pieces of general life advice which floats around …

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Rev and Christianity on TV

April 28, 2014

Rev, the brilliant TV comedy that undermines the church is the title of an article which has attracted some attention …

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Miliband and the Daily Mail: Heresy Edition

October 2, 2013

The Daily Mail’s attack on Ralph Miliband as a man who “hated Britain” has prompted a number of responses, including …

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Blurred Lines and Rape Culture: Seeing What’s In Front of Us

August 23, 2013

The controversy over Robin Thicke’s hit ‘Blurred Lines’ has been going back and forth for some time now.  Is it …

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Shipping and Subverting: TV Shows and Resistant Reading

January 5, 2013

It’s a commonplace of cultural criticism that the audience are as much in charge of what a work “means” as …

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“The Way It Is”: Lad Culture at British Universities

October 31, 2012

A project to investigate “lad culture” in British higher education is taking place over at Sussex University.  Funded by the …

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My latest book investigates a literary urban legend about Shakespeare and the King James Bible.

Words of Power: Reading Shakespeare and the Bible - my book on the history and use of these two texts.

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