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Loitered Lens: Slash and Myles Kennedy

05/06/2014

Slash and Myles Kennedy played the House of Parliament in June 2014. Here are some photos. ...

Sedition and The 1%

31/05/2014

An inhuman system that has come to stand for little but the empty perpetuation of itself...

Dressing up Undressing : London Burlesque Festival

29/05/2014

The fact that something so nostalgic, so artless and so utterly un-PC could sell out, almost thawed my cold ‘let’s reclaim the female gaze’ heart...

Politics as usual, Has Failed

27/05/2014

In our time, politics as usual has failed to address the most pressing issues of the age...

The NHS ‘Permanent Frontier’

24/05/2014

We either acquiesce to the piecemeal destruction of our public services, or we remove all support for those who seek to destroy them....

UKIP Turn to Police to Censor Twitter

17/05/2014

When a political party and its members seek to use the police or lawyers to silence legitimate criticism of their policies in the run-up to an election, we cannot merely cuss about it....

Summer Cooking : Mayonnaise

13/05/2014

Onwards, to the savoury custard of kings....

Shafting the Welfare State [Part 2]

10/05/2014

Social reform driven by market needs, with social policy development using corporate models. ...

On Twitter, Birdsong and Bards

08/05/2014

The Mistle Thrush reminds us not to be beguiled by outward display but to see through to what, if anything, lies beneath....

Geoff Thompson : The Caretaker

05/05/2014

Were it not for occasional cultural references or linguistic signposts, The Caretaker could indeed be mistaken for an established liturgical text....

Shafting the Welfare State

03/05/2014

The reality of social enterprise hides behind opaque language and mysterious ‘third sector’ jargon that alludes to volunteerism and good intentions. The key word is ‘enterprise’. They are run...

Shamate : China’s Secret Family

29/04/2014

Something purposeful and stubbornly cryptic is obviously gathering pace inside the communist walls of the Middle Kingdom....

James Narh (XXL Streetdance) : Interview

23/04/2014

Street dance has to sit within contemporary culture to stand the test of time, and not end up as a fad that disappears after a session or two....

Redford’s Condor – America’s Falcon

14/04/2014

Captain America – The Winter Soldier is Marvel’s latest attempt to make their pen on paper characters effective in the movie business. They succeed more than they fail and the new film is both...

Semmy Levit : My Secret Dressing Room [Interview]

10/04/2014

Our research showed that women buy clothes, but wear them very few times. The more expensive and sensational the purchase, the less likely they were to wear it again...

Patriotism and Silence

07/04/2014

How can the U.S. not be a haunted land? The country's blood-soaked soil chants songs of lamentation. ...

In Defence of Iain Duncan Smith

05/04/2014

It is time to mount a defence of one the most hated figures in British politics - Iain Duncan Smith ...

Parcelforce : Payments, Fines, Duties and Pain

03/04/2014

It seems the issue is that some post offices, especially at busy times, aren’t careful to mention every eventually that might concern you....

The World’s Rarest Comic Book

01/04/2014

The discovery of a medium grade copy in a thrift sale (following the death of Day’s daughter Gracia) has been confirmed....

Dragons or Flies? The State Apparatus of Fear

31/03/2014

Meet your fears, look them in the eye, live among them for a time. Discern whether they consist of an insect buzzing at your windowpane or is a dragon on the roof...

Slammed : Phone Companies Stealing Your Number

28/03/2014

Telephone companies can take, replace, steal or remove your number, leaving you with few options, little recourse to complain, and in the dark as to how this can happen...

Mike Vallely : On Not Being Broken

26/03/2014

Action-sports megacorporations duly demonized, Vallely takes to the appropriately bleak and inhuman streets of Berlin....

Rejecting Capitalism’s Putrefying Paradigm

24/03/2014

Late capitalism's putrefying paradigm has but one remedy for the devastation reaped by the system... insanely, more production and more consumerism....

Stop the sale of the land registry

23/03/2014

Stop the government selling the profitable Land Registry which generates £98 Million pounds to the public purse each year as well as having a satisfaction rating of over 90% from those that use the...

Women: Over-Strained, Under-Utilized

15/03/2014

Women have fought for the right to be equal but still struggle compared to men. We might as well be fed last if we are to be fed less....

The Rocket [Film]

14/03/2014

Here is a film that demands to be seen, particularly considering some lovely cinematography that complements and highlights a seemingly idyllic landscape quietly blighted by the unexploded bombs of...

Walking in an Anthropocene Wonderland

13/03/2014

Although we have been graced with life - all its possibilities and abundance - it has become apparent, we have fallen in love with Extinction....

Fear in a Handful of Dust

03/03/2014

The times call for us to explore the soul's topography of exaggeration, and this is propitious because it is not possible to exaggerate the peril we face if we cling to the status quo...