Kid Starver and the Dadcore State
The Starmer years look set to be defined by the dour, authoritarian persona of the Prime Minister himself – a sort of nightmarish latter-day successor to ‘nanny to the nation’ Margaret Thatcher’, Margaret Thatcher. This, we might say, is dadcore.
Illustration by Stephan Dybus
Book acknowledgements are an underappreciated art form: the best examples of the genre reveal a lot — in their omissions as well as their inclusions — about both their author and the context in which the book was written. In Carolyn Steedman’s Labours Lost: Domestic Service and the Making of Modern England, a ‘hidden history’ of the […]
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