Tár: busting the myths the film perpetuates of the all-powerful maestro: Tár follows a fictional all-powerful female orchestra conductor and her fall from the height of her career. Lydia Tár is portrayed as one of the top conductors in the world and the first female conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic. The film aims to ask …
Ask or aks? How linguistic prejudice perpetuates inequality: Teacher and artist Sunn M’Cheaux has been posting on social media about “linguicism” after a reader asked him about the word “ax”, saying: “Why did we struggle saying ‘ask’? Like when I was little, I always said ‘ax’. Like I couldn’t say the word correctly.” M’Cheaux’s response …
How Universal Credit perpetuates the false equation between public and private debt: What the 'credit' in Universal Credit actually means. Fure/Shutterstock The full roll out of Universal Credit, the government’s plan to collapse six welfare benefits into one, was delayed in early January. This followed mounting concerns by MPs and months of trenchant criticism of …