Author: Gareth Leaman
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Selling Wrexham’s Welshness
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After almost two years of starstruck delirium, there finally appears to be a sense of unease surrounding Wrexham AFC’s ‘Hollywood takeover’.
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Preaching to the Choir
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It’s bizarre that there is widespread shock at this forthright admission of zeal for class war and wealth transference, for such sentiments are demonstrated acutely in every political project the Tories have embarked upon since 2010.
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Imagining the thereafter, abolishing the present
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If the central imperative of revolution – in its immediate phase – is to upturn wholesale the existing Order of Things, then no concepts or structures are immutable.
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On Monadism
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The deeply embedded discontentment in the collective unconscious of British culture is plainly palpable in all aspects of life in this country.
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United in fragments
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Only now, as the crisis phase of the pandemic fades, can we begin to comprehend the full scale of its catastrophe.
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Gwent’s Non-Places
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The toponyms of a region contain within them much more than a mere etymology: they also form a system of signs, a web of interconnected meanings through which we can chart societal processes.
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Further notes on parliamentary sleaze and the meanings of politics
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The activities of Parliament and its members, rather than being the sphere in which the distribution of the sensible is contested and defined, is instead the very place whose performances enacts its own erasure.
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Political Corruption Only Hints at The Misery Caused by The State
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While lobby journalists have been enraptured by politicians receiving undue influence from private interests at the expense of democratic popular consent, the underlying causes and wider consequences of this misconduct remains largely obscured.
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Covid realism and the spectacle of death
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I noted while walking the streets this Halloween that the collective totems of horror and fear no longer primarily invoke the supernatural, but adopt an altogether more corporeal form.
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Washed Up on Severnside: Life, Work and Capital on the Border of South-East Wales
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Let us acknowledge that the industrial history of the Severn Estuary’s urban sprawl provides an indicative snapshot of the entire historical trajectory of capitalist production.
Disposable Everything 