I used to watch Breaking Glass when I worked a very corporate job in the City. With its vision of London at the end of punk and the beginning of the Winter of Discontent , the film provided me a blast of gritty, unvarnished relief in the light of endless training courses and encouraged groupthink.

Released in September 1980, it was disliked by critics (Q magazine memorably quipped: “Breaking Glass? More like Breaking Wind … ”) but through today’s eyes feels relevant again. ‘Such a tonic’: why Burn After Reading is my feelgood movie Read more

Kate Crowley (Hazel O’Connor) is an idealistic singer on the make. Her songs (“inspired by punk”) have an anti-capitalist stance. “Most people knuckle under,” she explains at the start of the yarn. “I don’t like the way life is for the majorit

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