The Sleepwalk of the West

According to the Pop Life exhibition at Tate Modern: Andy Warhol claimed “Good business is the best art.” Tate Modern brings together artists from the 1980s onwards who have embraced commerce and the mass media to build their own ‘brands’. Hmm. I was under the misconception that “good business” was Coke, Microsoft, De Beers, Haliburton, [...]

Has there been a Marxist critique of dogs? Hopefully not. Any dog trainer will tell you that dogs are bourgeois wolves. Their wolf-nature remains, barely hidden below a reluctant concession to social norms, tenuously imposed by human authority. The hunter instinct, the killer bite, is still there. They chase anything that moves. Look at the [...]

The Independent reports that Government advisers have said religious slaughter techniques practised by Jews and Muslims are cruel and should be ended. (They’re referring to animals, BTW.) How about this for an oxymoron: [Religious groups] are granted an exemption to the Welfare of Animals (Slaughter or Killing) Regulations 1995. So much for the meek inheriting [...]