The Jacqui Lambie Network is the latest victim of ‘cybersquatting’. It’s the tip of the iceberg of negative political ads online

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Firebrand senator Jacqui Lambie is furious. Amid the Tasmanian election campaign (in which she’s running candidates), her party, the Jacqui Lambie Network, has fallen victim to one of the many pitfalls in the world of […]

‘Regime’ review: Flirts with satire but lacks political bite

A man with a clipboard and a woman in a green dress walk together.

“Regime,” premiering Sunday on HBO, is a well-made, beautifully designed, marvelously acted mess of a series. Created by Will Tracy, a writer for “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver,” and directed by Stephen Frears, it […]

Neck Deep on Pure Pop Punk and Political Songs: Podcast

Neck Deep on Pure Pop Punk and Political Songs: Podcast

[redcricle url=”https://api.podcache.net/embedded-player/sh/3bdcc124-2757-4d54-911f-b1b3a5666758/ep/104cb709-9914-4351-ae02-95581186fba1″%5D Listen via: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Amazon Podcasts | Pocket Casts | Radio Public | RSS  Neck Deep’s Ben Barlow joins Kyle Meredith to speak about the band’s new self-titled album. The frontman discusses taking their sound “back to their roots” […]

Mark Russell, piano-playing political satirist, dead at 90

Mark Russell, piano-playing political satirist, dead at 90

Longtime political humorist Mark Russell, the wise-cracking piano player who skewered Washington’s elite with pithy one-liners and upbeat tunes, has died. He was 90. The irreverent satirist died Thursday at home in Washington, D.C., of […]

Phoenix: ‘Every political cycle France has an existential crisis’ | Phoenix

Phoenix (clockwise from top left) Christian Mazzalai, Thomas Mars, Deck D'arcy, Laurent Brancowitz

Deck D’Arcy has a theory. The Phoenix bassist thinks that, on the band’s fifth album, 2013’s Bankrupt!, they “lost the groove”. The French four-piece were at the height of their fame: 2009’s Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix […]

‘Hip-hop honeys’ and sitting as a political act: why Tschabalala Self is one of America’s hottest artists | Art

‘I want to make people feel like they have more perspective’ … overseeing production of Seated.

‘Imagine you’re on a bike, as opposed to a car, a train, or a plane,” says Tschabalala Self. “Imagine how the world appears, how quickly and easily you’re able to move through it. How clearly […]

‘To sing in Kashmiri is political’: Ali Saffudin, the singer-songwriter who smuggled his album to the world | Music

‘I needed someone to harness my music and get it out to the world.’

‘If someone like Neil Young or Bob Marley were born in Kashmir, who do you think they would have supported?” Ali Saffudin asks. “The oppressed. These are my inspirations.” For Saffudin, a Kashmiri folk singer-songwriter, […]

A night out with Kneecap, Ireland’s political hip-hop rebels

Three band members, one with a knit cap over his face, crouch down.

It’s not even 8:30 on a Monday night, and already a good quarter of the roughly 200-person audience crammed within the converted courtyard that is Bardot’s stage for the weekly School Night concert series is […]

‘I keep hope alive’: Tamara Tunie on playing Kamala Harris in political dystopia The 47th | Theatre

US vice president Kamala Harris in March 2022.

Tamara Tunie is limbering up to play the vice-president of America in Mike Bartlett’s new political satire, The 47th. “I have great admiration for what she’s achieved,” says Tunie, in a back office at the […]