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Don’t Slap Her, She’s Pretty!

15/01/2015

Girls who want to avoid being clobbered should aim to be tall, blonde and pretty. Does the 'Slap Her!' video send out the wrong message? ...

Nuanced Chuckles with Charlie Hebdo : Free Speech and the Freedom to Complain

14/01/2015

You can make your case and express your view, but riling up the worst elements and trolling isn’t free speech; it’s just being an antisocial jerk....

Pete Seeger and the Cop Problem

08/01/2015

The true purpose of a union was and remains: to bind the oppressed and exploited in solidarity - not act as agents of their oppression....

Hell Is Other People(‘s Stuff)

02/01/2015

We inherited the shaded glades and sunlight-dappled gardens of Heaven but we have made our world a burning hell....

Torture and the Tooth-For-Tooth Reflex

27/12/2014

The reality of having, without reflection, internalized the propaganda of the state constitutes an act of evil, in and of itself....

Walking With Plants

22/12/2014

Is a Native American Church peyote ceremony less shamanistic than a Neo-Pagan sweat-lodge simply by virtue of its using a teacher plant? ...

About Political Correctness

19/12/2014

Political correctness is not actually about quelling ‘freedom of speech’ for the sake of defending others from offense....

The Last Honky Tonk in Nashville

15/12/2014

You’ll get a solid handshake, by men who believe a firm handshake can tell a lot...

11 Months Old and Jailed By Israel

13/12/2014

With its brutalization of children, Israel is sowing the seeds for a bloody and hate filled future....

Scott Laudati : Hawaiian Shirts in the Electric Chair [Poetry]

11/12/2014

Between the suburbs and the city, and all that they stand for in Laudati's oeuvre, there is the ever-present fear not of age itself, but of fading away rather than burning out...

Suicide Girls : Interview

10/12/2014

Beauty comes in all shapes and sizes, certainly more than three cookie-cutter formulas, and there is nothing wrong with feeling sexy and confident about your body. - Interview...

On Killer Cops and Reverse Racism

09/12/2014

Does one identify with and/or benefit from hyper-authoritarian power or does one empathize with the plight of the powerless?...

Berlin, Techno and the Fall of the Wall

04/12/2014

A rich document of a remarkable period in the life of the city....

Palestine: What Hope Peace? [Film]

29/11/2014

There is nothing left of 'Palestine', just small and disconnected pockets of pain. Further divisions and segregation will not work....

Watching: Bourdieu [Vid]

09/11/2014

Sociology is a Martial Art follows the day to day mental life of Pierre Bourdieu, a French sociologist at the forefront of Post-structuralist theory until is death in 2002....

Pagan Britain (and Ronald Hutton)

05/11/2014

Qithin the generous limits imposed by the evidence you're free to imagine the past how you like....

Julian Bahula [African National Congress] : Interview

03/11/2014

When Julian Bahula tells you music contains the power of revolution, that it is “a weapon for the struggle,” you believe him....

The BBC Is Snooping on You

01/11/2014

The BBC regularly uses spying powers granted under The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, intended for the interception of communications by terrorists....

Trick or Treat! A Celebration of Samhain

30/10/2014

It is the festival of Samhain from whence our contemporary experience of Hallowe'en stems...

Max Richter : Royal Albert Hall [Live]

27/10/2014

The final word is this was a truly historic evening for music, and Vivaldi’s reputation to wow audiences shines undimmed. ...

Richard Dawkins to Guest on Heavy Metal Song

22/10/2014

Band reveals the famed evolutionary biologist and atheist writer/leader Richard Dawkins as a guest on their eighth studio album....

Reflections on Gamergate

21/10/2014

There are valid points about censorship and freedom of expression to be made, but this fatally-tainted hashtag isn't an appropriate vehicle for it....

Thunder in the Distant Past

13/10/2014

For my money, along with The Pistols and The Clash, The Heartbreakers were the only outfit to really ‘get it’, whatever ‘it’ was in 1977....

Ebola : A Dog’s Life For Us All

11/10/2014

Destroying Excalibur the dog doesn’t bode well for how our governments will respond if there is a major Ebola outbreak outside of Africa....

Niggas, Wiggas, Niggers, Wiggers. Language and the right to self-identify

07/10/2014

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”H/dropcap ow long you niggas ball? All day, nigga. How much time you spent at the mall? All day, nigga. – Kanye West In response to an...