April 2023 | Perspective Media

April 2023

Issue

Urban jungles

Letting the wild back into our metropolitan spaces will help cities breathe

Letter from the editors

My generation’s missing out on the naughties

Róisín Lanigan

Don’t look now

We’re being monitored at home, at work and on our streets

The 15-minute protesters

Green measures are stirring up populist dissent

People

THE INTERVIEW

A Tale of Two Cities

Gavin Esler is inspired by the optimism of two English devolutionaries, Andy Burnham, Labour mayor of Greater Manchester, and Andy Street, Conservative mayor of the West Midlands

REPUTATIONS

Ken Livingstone

The populist who fell because he thought rules didn’t apply to him

The Surveys

No place like home

City life or escape to the country?

Coronation not up everyone’s street

Celebrations too expensive in a cost-of-living crisis?

Nature in crisis

But all is not lost if we act now

Is Rishi getting it right?

New tactics, new model Prime Minister

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Collateral damage

Survival of the richest

A fish called Squander

Free Cities

Michael Janofsky

Trump still cracks the whip in this four-ring circus

Christobel Kent

The enduring charm of city dressing

Close encounters of the city kind

Nathaniel Tapley

Down but not out on the allotment

Make “people power” more than a slogan

Victoria Bateman

The naked feminist

It’s time for the Commons to call Johnson’s bluff

The end of customer service

Racism, homophobia and misogyny at the Met

Culture

The author Interview

By

Max Porter

Award-winning British novelist, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers discusses his new book Shy

“People ask, is it prose or poetry? Put it on whichever shelf you want, I don’t fucking care!”

The author Interview

Max Porter

Award-winning British novelist, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers discusses his new book Shy

“People ask, is it prose or poetry? Put it on whichever shelf you want, I don’t fucking care!”

New vision at the Sharjah Biennial

On the bus to Gambetta

Perspective Magazine

Now That’s Why I Love The 80s

Latest reviews

Perspective Magazine

Reviews by SJ Watson, Susanna Forrest, Joanna Grochowicz, Nigel Summerley, Grant Gillespie and Louisa Young

The enduring charm of city dressing

Christobel Kent

Cinema’s fascination with fascism

Latest reviews

Perspective Magazine

Reviews by SJ Watson, Susanna Forrest, Joanna Grochowicz, Nigel Summerley, Grant Gillespie and Louisa Young

On the bus to Gambetta

Perspective Magazine

Now That’s Why I Love The 80s

The enduring charm of city dressing

Christobel Kent

New vision at the Sharjah Biennial

Life

Letter from Elsewhere

Lost in Translation

Kevin writes from Trinidad, the country that made him a writer despite the lack of books during his childhood

Buffalo Gal

Unpacking the formative impact of an iconic 1980s pop video

The fickle month

Andreas Kornevall

Shifting filters

A fish called Squander

This Sporting Life

The winner takes it all

Mind Over Matter

Othello syndrome and kitchen wars

Neurological-based advice from our agony uncle

John Lloyd

Perspective Magazine

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

This Sporting Life

The winner takes it all

Buffalo Gal

Unpacking the formative impact of an iconic 1980s pop video

The fickle month

Andreas Kornevall

John Lloyd

Perspective Magazine

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

A fish called Squander

Out of the Ordinary

Shân Lancaster

The unique photographic legacy of Roger Bamber is now on display in his beloved Brighton

Shifting filters