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Brompton World Championship

29/08/2014

The Brompton World Championship is a serious endeavour. Fun and colourful yes, but also earnest and limit pushing....

In Gaza : ‘They Gassed Us in Our Beds’

28/08/2014

F-16s roar across the sky, drones buzz, and the deep thud of shelling can be heard....

They Shot My Baby Dead in My Arms : Gaza

26/08/2014

“We will not anymore live like animals. Let us live in dignity, or die with honour.”...

Présence Autochtone: Montreal First Peoples Festival

18/08/2014

Présence Autochtone, Montreal First Peoples Festival, celebrates the cultural heritage of the Americas' aboriginal nations through film, music, dance and other visual arts....

Why Guardians of the Galaxy Sucked

13/08/2014

They’ve made a successful film; the least they can do is follow up with a good one....

Moebius [Film]

09/08/2014

Castration and rape, incest and heavy emphasis on some decidedly unconventional masturbation are far from mainstream viewing topics...

Israel and Gaza : Same Old, Same Old

02/08/2014

Extremism needs dysfunction to flower...

Images of Africa

30/07/2014

Images of Africa. Jyoti Bindu steers wide of the politics and brings the pictures....

On Troubadours, Sufism and Robert Graves

28/07/2014

The original medieval troubadours, who expounded the art of Courtly Love through poetry and song and who were embroiled with the heretical ideas of gnosticism and Catharism, owed their existence to...

Veracity of Soul and Materialist Reductionism

26/07/2014

a person who believes they have no soul is as dangerous to our besieged planet, in their own way, as one who is out to save the soul of others...

Singapore’s Library Board Pulps Books

19/07/2014

Should the library be allowed to impose a moralistic "pro-family" (anti-LGBTQ) policy over its public access collections and withdraw those books which do not reflect those so-called "community...

Neil Gaiman at the Barbican

18/07/2014

For an hour or so, we could almost taste the wetted air of foggy heaths and breathe the scent of mythical caves....

Applied Carpe Diem – Living and Dying with ALS

17/07/2014

To fully appreciate life, we also need to understand and appreciate death...

Loitered Lens : Twin Atlantic

13/07/2014

Photos of Twin Atlantic live at the Hospital Club, 8th July 2014...

Austerity = Kids Eating from Bins

12/07/2014

Logic has been ignored – and now we have children eating scraps from bins to survive. ...

The Festival Burner

08/07/2014

Now with bank apps, emails, incriminating pictures, your phone is an invitation to be blackmailed, divorced or arrested. A lost phone infinitely more so....

Time for the Twitter Bubble to Burst

05/07/2014

If your Twitter row is resulting in someone being fired, imprisoned or put at risk, it is time to get some perspective on your internet use...

Fourth of July Spitroast

04/07/2014

There's a whole lot of meat between the rooter and the tooter so that means there's little point in getting it on unless the whole neighbourhood is coming...

How I Got Banned From Canada

01/07/2014

I was a documented citizen of a country, with a passport, and I spoke English. What could go wrong?...

Of Old Gits and Hamsters’ Arses

28/06/2014

Farage and Co. are not a bold rejection of the old order – they’re simply extreme expressions of it...

Stylus Stories

26/06/2014

It is modern folklore, providing an insight into the human condition and a soundtrack to match. Stylus stories listening club....

Can Analytics Drive Creativity?

25/06/2014

For some this questions appears to be the unholy marketing spawn of a top floor baking table. For others, knowledge and data have always facilitated the creative market. ...

Empire’s Ghost Pt. 3 : Scottish Nationalism

21/06/2014

Scottish Nationalism has always been just a reaction to a changing world, and an attempt to find a place in it...

Forbidden Rice

20/06/2014

With rice so readily available today, it is hard to imagine that stealing something as simple as a handful of black rice could result in a death penalty...