Andy Hedgecock
@andrewhedgecock.bsky.social
Critic / feature writer / essayist based in a recovering and undervalued landscape
www.openbook.org.uk/chainlink/20... My piece on David Graeber for a new, Nottingham-based journal.
Navigator of Neglected Territories: David Graeber (1961-2020)
Andy Hedgecock writes an appreciation of the works of David Graeber (1961-2020). A dissident writer who in Utopia of Rules tackles the factors that lead us to create and sustain rule-based systems …
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May 9, 2025 at 8:59 AM
www.openbook.org.uk/chainlink/20... My piece on David Graeber for a new, Nottingham-based journal.
My review of Holy Cow in the MS. Cracking debut feature about cheese, cows and coming of age. Some wonderful performances by the nonprofessional cast. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/film...
Film round-up: April 10, 2025
The Star's critics ANDY HEDGECOCK, MARTIN HALL, MICHAL BONCZA, ANGUS REID reviews Holy Cow, One to One: John and Yoko, King of Kings, Panda Bear in Africa
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April 11, 2025 at 10:49 AM
My review of Holy Cow in the MS. Cracking debut feature about cheese, cows and coming of age. Some wonderful performances by the nonprofessional cast. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/film...
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After people have died from lead poisoning or their kids are still-born in large enough numbers. Brilliant, Elon, you goose-stepping, duck-waddling fuck.
“Regulations, basically, should be default gone,” Musk said. “Not default there, default gone. And if it turns out that we missed the mark on a regulation, we can always add it back in.”
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Elon Musk Suggests Getting Rid Of All Regulations In Midnight Call
"If it's not possible now, it'll never be possible," Musk said of his proposal to simply ignore all federal regulation as a baseline.
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February 3, 2025 at 11:31 PM
After people have died from lead poisoning or their kids are still-born in large enough numbers. Brilliant, Elon, you goose-stepping, duck-waddling fuck.
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Mexico's President Sheinbaum condemning Donald Trump ICE ethnic cleansing campaign:
"Let them hear this, and hear it clearly, Mexicans there sustain the economy of the United States in the countryside, in services, everywhere! The US wouldn't be what it is without the workers that go and help."
"Let them hear this, and hear it clearly, Mexicans there sustain the economy of the United States in the countryside, in services, everywhere! The US wouldn't be what it is without the workers that go and help."
January 28, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Mexico's President Sheinbaum condemning Donald Trump ICE ethnic cleansing campaign:
"Let them hear this, and hear it clearly, Mexicans there sustain the economy of the United States in the countryside, in services, everywhere! The US wouldn't be what it is without the workers that go and help."
"Let them hear this, and hear it clearly, Mexicans there sustain the economy of the United States in the countryside, in services, everywhere! The US wouldn't be what it is without the workers that go and help."
Reposted by Andy Hedgecock
'The blank space left by the unreadable thoughts of others'. Thanks @desmondbullen.bsky.social.
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Book Review: Precipitation by Ailsa Cox
Book Review: Precipitation by Ailsa Cox
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January 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
'The blank space left by the unreadable thoughts of others'. Thanks @desmondbullen.bsky.social.
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www.northernsoul.me.uk/precipitatio...
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Important new research out today concludes that English “water companies are adopting disinformation tactics similar to those used by the fossil fuel and tobacco industries with the widespread use of greenwashing to downplay the environmental harm they cause”. 👇
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Water companies in England ‘use greenwashing playbook to hide environmental harm’
Researchers say companies have prolonged injustice and exaggerated cost of solving infrastructure problems
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January 27, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Important new research out today concludes that English “water companies are adopting disinformation tactics similar to those used by the fossil fuel and tobacco industries with the widespread use of greenwashing to downplay the environmental harm they cause”. 👇
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"We'd rather be scared together than alone" (Bowie, 1971). So, I recommend Dark Times by Doctors of Madness - perfect listening for a week of doom-laden insanity and megalomania. Richard Strange's lyrics are the perfect reaction to a population sleepwalking its way into a consumerist hell.
January 8, 2025 at 8:04 PM
"We'd rather be scared together than alone" (Bowie, 1971). So, I recommend Dark Times by Doctors of Madness - perfect listening for a week of doom-laden insanity and megalomania. Richard Strange's lyrics are the perfect reaction to a population sleepwalking its way into a consumerist hell.
My picks for 2024: two wonderful books and a re-released film that dig benearh the surface of British culture and (in very different ways) consider the collision of environment and behaviour.
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/best...
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/best...
Best of 2024: Andy Hedgecock
Two books and a film that examine cultural excavation and the impact of place on behaviour
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December 13, 2024 at 10:44 PM
My picks for 2024: two wonderful books and a re-released film that dig benearh the surface of British culture and (in very different ways) consider the collision of environment and behaviour.
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/best...
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/best...
The third short story selected for the Morning Star's new fiction page is by Ian Currie....
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/time...
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/time...
Time is Money, by Ian Currie
In a vast junkyard of discarded technology, a dilapidated robot discovers the grim truth of Marx’s assertion that ‘moments are the elements of profit’
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December 13, 2024 at 4:27 PM
The third short story selected for the Morning Star's new fiction page is by Ian Currie....
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/time...
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/time...
My latest review for the Morning Star....
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/what...
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/what...
What did your mother do?
ANDY HEDGECOCK recommends a deceptively short novella that is mysteriously bigger on the inside
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November 30, 2024 at 10:55 AM
My latest review for the Morning Star....
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morningstaronline.co.uk/article/what...
Latest edition of ParSec coming soon...
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October 15, 2023 at 9:21 AM
Latest edition of ParSec coming soon...
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My review of a dystopian classic for the Morning Star....
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morningstaronline.co.uk/article/woma...
October 10, 2023 at 9:46 PM
My review of a dystopian classic for the Morning Star....
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/woma...
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/woma...
My interview with the Lars Iyer, focussing on the forensicly funny My Weil. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/prai...
October 4, 2023 at 7:01 PM
My interview with the Lars Iyer, focussing on the forensicly funny My Weil. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/prai...