Martyn Pearce

Martyn Pearce is the sub-editor at Pearls and Irritations

Martyn's articles (4 total)

Who restrains power when power refuses restraint? – Message from the Editor
Martyn Pearce

Who restrains power when power refuses restraint? – Message from the Editor

Across this week’s pieces on P&I, the same question keeps appearing: who or what restrains power when the powerful decide restraint is optional?

When reality catches up with satire – Message from the Editor
Martyn Pearce

When reality catches up with satire – Message from the Editor

The Boys spent years exaggerating the Trump era. By its final season, political reality had become so grotesque that satire was struggling to stay ahead.

The World Cup asks what we mean by “we” – Message from the (acting) Editor
Martyn Pearce

The World Cup asks what we mean by “we” – Message from the (acting) Editor

The World Cup is compromised, commercialised and often grotesque – but it can still show us something true about belonging, about multicultural Australia and the complexity of loving something, while refusing to look away from its failures.

Message from the (acting) Editor
Martyn Pearce

Message from the (acting) Editor

They say ‘start as you mean to go on’, and if that’s true, anyone hoping the new year would bring in peace, cooperation and kindness might now be wondering if we can wind the clock back to 1 January and give it another go.