May 2023 | Perspective Media International

May 2023

Issue

Legacy of empire

It’s time for a reckoning with our colonial past

Letter from the editors

The joy of text

Online life brings perennial pleasures

Beside the sea

Madeleine Bunting

English seaside resorts evoke both deep nostalgia and class divisions

More than the sum of our parts

Our common identity runs deeper than our individuality

People

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THE INTERVIEW

Anas Sarwar

Gavin Esler talks to the leader of the Scottish Labour Party about the weaponisation of identity politics, and the fall of the SNP

“Identity is used as a way of dividing and putting people into camps”

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REPUTATIONS

Nell Gwyn

The low-born actress whose wit seduced a king

The Surveys

SNP in crisis

Is the dream of independence over?

MPs for hire

Should parliamentarians stick to the day job?

Are you sitting comfortably?

When flying isn’t all plane sailing

We’re all going on a summer holiday

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Culture

The author Interview

By

Luke Jennings

The author of the Killing Eve books discusses his new novel Panic

“I believe men and women, old and young have more in common than most people like to think”

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The author Interview

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Luke Jennings

The author of the Killing Eve books discusses his new novel Panic

“I believe men and women, old and young have more in common than most people like to think”

Images of Britishness

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Acts of sedition

Pauline F Kiernan

Shakespeare’s Richard II was pure treason, so how did he get away with it? asks the author

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The Fairy Queen of modern folk

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Reviews by Mic Wright, Louisa Young, Wade Graham and Sam Fowles

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Seeking one stylish spring coat

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Digging for earworms

Hether Blether

Lesley Harrison

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Digging for earworms

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Seeking one stylish spring coat

Christobel Kent

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The Fairy Queen of modern folk

Life

Letter from Elsewhere

Living off grid

Swapping reporting from war zones for a life fighting fires in Portugal’s wildest region

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Alas, poor Yorick

When your childhood garden is a charnel house, and skeletons your toys

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Dystopia myopia

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The darling buds

Andreas Kornevall

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Great Eggspectations

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This Sporting Life

Bowled over and caught out

Mind Over Matter

A personality change and a foot fetish

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Rosie Holt

Perspective Magazine

Comedian and actress

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This Sporting Life

Bowled over and caught out

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Rosie Holt

Perspective Magazine

Comedian and actress

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The darling buds

Andreas Kornevall

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Alas, poor Yorick

When your childhood garden is a charnel house, and skeletons your toys

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Dystopia myopia

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Great Eggspectations

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Acts of sedition

Pauline F Kiernan

Shakespeare’s Richard II was pure treason, so how did he get away with it? asks the author

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