pandemic Archives - Desperate Living

Let’s not write off old-school physical media just yet.

Britain’s ever-prudish advertising censors get worked up about the idea of couples showing fully-clothed affection for each other.

A new social network for pub-goers seems to be a bit unnecessary.

How the female-led action TV shows in the 1970s were dismissed as mere T&A exploitation by idiots.

The O’Farrell Theatre, San Francisco landmark and ground zero of the adult entertainment revolution, has closed.

A horror film performed live via video conferencing that has more ambition than scares.

Exploring the exotic craft beer pleasures to be found in Lidl.

With his own freedom a dwindling hope, the artist and musician releases his work for open hi-res download.

Reporting from the front lines of the relentless drive to get back to normal, no matter what.

Why can’t we try to make the New Normal an improvement on the Old Normal?

Closing pubs at 10 pm will do nothing to combat the second Covid wave, but everything to further destabilise and demonise drinking.

Britain’s biggest horror film festival falls victim to the expanding Covid crisis.