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Billy Anania

Billy Anania is an art critic, editor, and journalist in New York City.

One Britain Tunnel Vision

The embarrassing ‘One Britain One Nation’ day for schools, with its notorious song, passed with hardly any participation – but its existence showed a growing revisionism in the concept of ‘British values’.

Britain’s New Enclosure

Less than 1% of the population own half of England’s land, and with every passing year public right of access is diminishing – enclosing swathes of green spaces to be enjoyed by the rich alone.

The England Team Are the Best of Us

The racist abuse directed at England’s football players since last night’s match is not an anomaly – it’s the consequence of politicians and media outlets demonising them for their efforts to make this country better.

Leave the Billionaires in Space

The space race playing out among billionaires like Branson, Bezos and Musk has little to do with science – it’s a PR-driven spectacle designed to distract us from the disasters capitalism is causing here on Earth.

Black Country Rock

Paul Mendez’s novel ‘Rainbow Milk’ celebrates the accents and voices of the Black Country, following its characters from Jamaica to Dudley to London.

Living to Tell

Paris Lees’ novel, inspired by her upbringing in the East Midlands, is a traumatic and funny story of class mobility, and of the places where the oppressions of class and gender collide.

The Myth of the No-Go Zone

In the last decade, right-wing politicians and media outlets have proliferated the idea of ‘no-go zones’ as a way to foment hatred against immigrants – only proving how much of their ideology consists of fantasy.

Together in Electric Dreams

A documentary film about the science fiction motif of ‘the world as a hallucination’ reveals something quite different — the tragedy of the means people use to cope with reality.