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Guns: America’s Addiction

19/01/2013

America is addicted to guns and the politics of aggression, aimed entirely at the target audience of consumers, is exploited for commercial and artistic gain....

Spaghetti Whores and Tasty Capers

18/01/2013

Along with almost every highly-flavoured or highly-priced delicacy man has ever put to his lips, capers have been thought to have aphrodisiac properties...

Perps and Papers: An Academic in Africa

17/01/2013

A lot of unhappy rumbling, and us standing around trying to look as serious and threatening as we possibly could. ...

The Benefits Cap: Four Things We Have Learned

12/01/2013

The Conservatives’ only hope is an improvement in economic growth, and as their actions have cut rather than encouraged consumer spending, this grows ever more unlikely....

You’re Kidding! Portuguese Goat Stew [Recipe]

11/01/2013

Just taste it. A warming hug of a stew, but with all of the ornery attitude, cunning, fastidiousness and bravado of the animal that went into it....

we will construct a personalised HATE CHART for you, which will be based on your answers to our searching questionnaire. From this soul map you will quickly discover the TRAITOR inside who insists on...

Moustaches and Marking: An Academic in Africa

08/01/2013

Saharan dust that turns the air a shade of orange and covers everything (including the inside of your lungs) in a thick layer of grit. And the sunsets are amazing. ...

James Herbert: Ash [Audiobook]

07/01/2013

Suddenly, what should have been a relaxing holiday in an area of stark natural beauty became a torturous experience, as if we were trapped in an overlong horror novel with too much description and...

On Porn and Prostitution

05/01/2013

The market in education meant a market in women’s bodies. The welfare cuts meant a market in women's bodies. The social work cuts meant an expansion to the market for young men's, women's, and...

One Last List: Staff Picks for 2012

31/12/2012

One final list of 2012's highlights. Best events, albums and gigs of the year, as picked by Trebuchet staffers...

A Financial Cliff, a War on Christmas, and Other Dim Tidings

29/12/2012

The conversation, between humankind and catastrophic natural phenomenon, tends to be a bit one-sided....

2012 Round-Up: Carl Byron Batson

28/12/2012

Each year for me is remembered in pictures, the continual broadening of my musical boundaries, and the unfathomable yeses and nos from band PR and management. Example: Shakin’ Stevens says no, Bill...

In Defence of Music

27/12/2012

I am here in defence of music. Of music music---not social music sites, not music apps, not the ability to stream, or the ability to store songs in the cloud. I am here to extol the delicious,...

Locomotion

26/12/2012

The trick of getting a lift is not in persuading someone to stop. It is in being at exactly the right place at the right time such that the person who would give you a lift and is heading your way...

Of Grief and Hope

22/12/2012

Climate chaos. Dying oceans. The degradation of U.S. corporate/militarist empire and the concomitant collapse of the global, neoliberal order. Our child will be born into a world where there will be...

Life of Pi: Review

19/12/2012

Ultimately, Life of Pi as film is a visual complement to Yann Martel's story as opposed to a fresh telling of its own. But what a visual complement it is....

Skirmish of Ideas?

15/12/2012

IoI has its own clear agendas but the festival definitely has a positive function in bringing hidden or repressed debates to the surface and airing them to a much wider public than they might...

Go Fly a Kite

14/12/2012

And don't kites just lend themselves to metaphor? They punctuate the sky, return it to a human scale. They hug the wind. Our minds can't help but follow them up into the empyrean; watching them, we...

Touched by Sir Jimmy

12/12/2012

I looked nostalgically at the picture of Jimmy’s face and noticed he’d even put a little smiley on there for me. Yes, Jimmy Savile touched me back in ’93...

The Punk Syndrome/Kovasikajuttu [Film]

11/12/2012

The reason this whole thing works is that it becomes, pretty quickly, a story about actual people, and not just ciphers for what is wrong with them, or the way that society treats them....

A Case For Culture

08/12/2012

The arts can engage everyone. Most of all, surely, we want those who may not otherwise be able to join in, to find the world of art available and open to them - whether for simple enjoyment or for...

Hoxton (Alco) Hall

05/12/2012

'mysterious ‘Negro delineators’, trapeze artists, jugglers, singers, performing dogs and the like', Hoxton Hall has moved with the times since 1863....

Are Social Media Values Human Values?

04/12/2012

None of the values promoted by a social-media-dominated world are helpful with depth-oriented, long-term thinking...

After the Flood

01/12/2012

In the presence of death and in the aftermath of great storms, we apprehend how vainly we cling to the illusion of certainty and permanence. ...

Leviathan: Matadero Theatre, Madrid

30/11/2012

without the progression of a story, or identification with a protagonist, the sequence of juxtaposed imagery and sound can alienate an audience and reduce the performance to circus turns...

Alexandra Ackerman: Interview

28/11/2012

Alexandra Ackerman: an LA transplant with a cache of romance novel covers, film, television and stage performances under her belt. When it comes to Hollywood substance is usually traded for beauty,...

Zionist Heckles Answered

24/11/2012

Why should the neighbors of the Zionist state be forced to live on their knees and give perpetual penitence because of the crimes of the anti-Semites of Europe? ...

House of Burlesque: Shipwrecked [Review]

22/11/2012

The questions here are, is Burlesque exploitative? Does it reinforce cultural and sexual attitudes that are complicit in sexual harassment or is this just a great medium of feminist expression and a...

Brown Sugar and Mustard-Glazed Bone-in Ham

21/11/2012

Well the holidays are indeed coming and as y’all know, a homemade baked ham is a southern holiday staple. ...

The Tribes of Britain

21/11/2012

To be an activist is to suffer defeat after defeat after defeat. Without spirituality to recharge and revive us the danger is we fall into bitterness or despair or worse, self-righteousness. ...

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