Author: Ars Notoria
By Phil Hall In order to be healthy and thin you need to eat fresh food, much of […]
By Phil Hall Venice is one of the greatest sea cities. In the 5th century the Venetians rescued […]
Is New Labour’s dystopian surveillance society back on the cards again?
After I was released from jail, but house arrested and banned, I was able to get one of […]
If capitalism really gets hold of software that can manipulate human behaviour, then game over. By Phil Hall […]
Keir Starmer has now alienated the best and the most idealistic people in the Labour Party By Phil […]
A 2020 Vision for South Africa A car arrived at Tony Hall’s funeral in 2008 with Aggie Msimang. […]
We are alive in amazing times, and 2020 is a significant year, as significant as 1968 was in […]
Will Biden get in? By Stephanie Urdang Dear Phil, I haven’t forgotten about your request to write something […]
We need to be better people By Pete Field Would you torture your own children? Would you destroy […]
How we kill and never think about it By Pete Field In the mid-sixties driving in the countryside […]
At Kit’s Coty the Ancestors Spoke. They said: ‘We all belong’. By Phil Hall Well, 2007 was a […]
By Phil Hall Someone from the countryside was selling a young bush-baby in a corner of Dar-es-Salaam market. Mom was […]
By Bryan Greetham. We are busy producing a generation of the most sophisticated recyclers of received opinion Rodin’s […]
Anyone paying attention? By Dale T. McKinley Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, much of world’s public […]
Yves Montand in Nairobi in 1966 By Tony Hall On the face of it it may seem strange […]
When poets are publishers, other poets forget to notice them as poets. Thus, Todd Swift has remained a hidden diamond. So, to highlight his work, it delights us at Ars Notoria to bring his poem to you this month. It plays at many levels concealing the harshness directed elsewhere from the poem’s apparent impression!
We feel desolate at the squandering of such an enormous opportunity By Phil Hall After the failure of […]
‘we have meandered through grief, loss, and trauma at the complete loss of our home‘ – Libby Patterson […]
By Felipe Elvira Imagine waking up in Uruapan. Many thousands of Uruapenses who have crossed the border over […]
By Rob Hyde On the face of it, given how my country-hopping life in Europe turned out, I […]
You can live a rich and full life – if you take collective action By Phil Hall When […]
More Glamorous than Che: Make a Film about the life of Angela Davis By Phil Hall It’s fascinating […]
By Phil Hall On the 22nd of April 1992. There were 10 petrol-gas explosions in northern Guadalajara, killing […]
By Connie Hall Arthur Lewis Hall was a fellow of the Royal Society, a winner of the Murchison Medal […]
K, a superhero, finds working as an ESL teacher tough… By James Royce Mcguire It’s wacked. Here he […]
It was 1961, I was a reporter on the main SA daily newspaper The Star. The African National Congress had […]
In July we began the month with a powerful argument against Rebecca Long-Bailey’s dismissal by Richard House published […]
By Neil Newman One of the most striking facets of the secular religion Marxism is the almost complete […]
By Philip Hall For more than 30 years I have been teaching people how to speak, write, read […]
By Bryan Greetham In this period of COVID-19 it is essential that we understand risk and to do […]
On and off, for over thirty years, Andy Hall has aimed his camera at The City of London […]
The longing for a homeland is legitimate and the result of two millennia of European persecution. By […]
By Keith Woodhouse The night was over And the sea curds crackled And bent, crisply, in the deadening […]
By Adam Lickley 2017 did not end well for me. I was ‘let go’ from my job, my […]
My march through the relative silence of nine years Has brought me to a small house With a […]
By Adam Lickley So you fancy being a dancer, huh? And who doesn’t want to be paid to […]
By Phil Hall The first guided client to be ushered up the slopes of Chomolungma-Sagarmatha by Sherpa Tenzing […]
Ars Notoria is pleased to present episode 10 of Dan Pearce’s groundbreaking graphic novel, Depression.
Selected by Dominic Tweedie from: Paul Robeson Speaks: Writings, Speeches, Interviews, 1918-1974 Paul Robeson was a superstar in […]
Modern conspiracy theory and the appeal of fascism and racism for the working class By Bryan Greetham In […]
Ars Notoria is pleased to present the ninth episode in the comic series, Depression, by Dan Pearce
National Socialism offered the lower middle class a way of side-stepping the choice between liberalism or socialism. It […]
The moment has come for the soft left to develop a backbone and make a stand against reactionary […]
We grew up up understanding that nature is wild and and dangerous. By Phil Hall In a film […]
Global warming is real, but it is not an excuse for misanthropes to voice their hatred of humanity. […]
A Freedom Charter for Great Britain? If we held a constitutional assembly, all the progressive forces in British […]
Welcome to the monthly editorial and welcome to Ars Notoria. Strangely enough, the editorial for June 2020 will […]
Ars Notoria is pleased to present the eighth episode in the comic series, Depression, by Dan Pearce
Socialists and capitalists together have ruined the planet. by Pete Field Even though climate scientists tell us we […]
Everyday working class, fascism is real by Phil Hall One of the dirty secrets of history is that […]
Ars Notoria is pleased to present the seventh episode in the comic series, Depression, by Dan Pearce.
Is the solution to racism, misogyny and prejudice a nicer capitalism or do we need a more profound […]
Decades of dead-souled, dead music in zombie filled arenas headlined by people like Dylan. By Phil Hall Prospero […]
– and bloody annoyed at the constant micro and macro racism of the British police By Des Willie […]
Ars Notoria is pleased to present the sixth episode in the comic series, Depression, by Dan Pearce.
In my wildest dreams I never thought I would hang out with my hero, Muhammad Ali. By Andy […]
Extract originally published in The London Magazine By Eve Hall My heroine of very early days was Joan […]
– like Richard Steinhardt By Phil Hall Grandpa was an admirer of Napoleon and this was partly why […]
In the USA racism is the collateral damage caused by social inequality and injustice, and a history of […]
Anandi Sharan Giving and receiving Giving and receiving isa matter of systems-logic.Listen to the poets!Here it is,metabolising civilisation.Is […]
The Problem of Surplus and the COVID-19 Pandemic. ‘Can we justify £16bn fortunes when nurses are poorly compensated, […]
Song by Richard Tuley: Taking Back Control By Richard Tuley Perhaps it’s distasteful to mention Brexit. People […]
Che appeals to revolutionary fantasists who like the poetry of violence. By Phil Hall When we watched a […]
One of the greatest pleasures in my grandfather’s life was to visit the market in Cannes, to admire […]
Ars Notoria is pleased to present the fourth episode in the comic series by Dan Pearce.
The revolutionary environmentalist, Anandi Sharan, argues that to meet 2050 zero carbon emissions the government must give each […]
LISTEN TO THE LEFT STARMER, OR GO! Masks off! Keir Starmer got elected as Labour leader under false […]
Ars Notoria is pleased to present the third episode in the comic series by Dan Pearce.
by Philip Hall Richmond Park is not far away from us. It’s easy to reach it and to […]
In Search of Salt – by Yogesh Patel There is a jungle in this desert! The baboons of […]
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Two Tall Trees There’s a window in the bathroom and if you stand at the bottom of the […]
Sandeep Saxena wants us to grow our food in forests By Anandi Sharan Sandeep Saxena graduated from the […]
by Philip Hall The cast system is inhuman. FGM seems impossibly cruel. Look at the Taliban: Malala got […]
Socialism? What are we talking about? By Dominic Tweedie The communists mean to show the way – as […]
Ars Notoria is pleased to present the second episode in the comic series by Dan Pearce.
Now AI is Coming for the Middle-Class By Emil Blake In 1925 a Russian economist, called Nikolai Kondratiev […]
But now we have another pivotal moment. By Bryan Greetham Before the Second World War a German chemist […]
What do you do when the cure does you more harm than the disease? You stop taking it. […]
WHAT IS TO BE DONE? By Phil Hall The British Disease is passive aggression. It is class hatred […]
The demoralisation of grassroots Labour. By Paul Halas The Stroud Labour CLP meeting to nominate its preferred leadership […]
Celebrations in the streets of Dharavi, Mumbai By Andy Hall The principle practice in street photography, and why […]
By Phil Hall Covid-19 arrives, We sit at home for a long while. The cities empty, the air […]
By Yogesh Patel To the undertakers A preview of myself is a hidden mirror in a selfie mirror. […]
by James Tweedie, Plymouth, May 6th 2020 The one-word answer is: “Brexit.” The Labour Party backed the losing […]
By Paul Halas On my very infrequent visits to Paris, passing Drancy Station on the RER suburban line […]
Ars Notoria is pleased to present the first episode in the comic series by Dan Pearce.
By Phil Hall In China the barefoot doctors believed in prevention rather than cure. So how can we […]
By Paul Halas Our television has led a charmed life in recent weeks. Every time a Conservative minister […]