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Interesting Times: SOPA

23/01/2012

Politics has rarely concerned itself with the intelligent. The art of persuasion is neutered by the intelligent person's demands for data. Where will the money for schools, libraries, hospitals...

Double Hammer: The Scarlet Blade and The Brigand of Kandahar

16/01/2012

Out today, making their world DVD premieres, are these two Hammer classics, The Scarlet Blade (1964) and The Brigand of Kandahar (1965). Both tales of conflict written and directed by John Gilling,...

Black Tusk: Set the Dial

27/11/2011

Savannah chooglin metallers Black Tusk put some grind into their sludge grunt. Black Tusk have a shared history along with bands like Baroness and Kylesa apparently they’re mates and have...

We would go totally apeshit (Splatterheads)

31/10/2011

Trebuchet interviews Sly, vocalist and guitarist for The Splatterheads, about their history and tentatively, the future of the parochial Australian rock labourer....

Creative Journey: How to Curate Abroad

21/09/2011

Creative Journey: How to Curate Abroad...

Ultra-Thatcherite Ultra-Violence

24/08/2011

As even Britain's kleptocratic party leaders have now been forced to admit, various modes of corruption and anti-social criminality are not confined to gangs or underclasses. Context There's...

Dalston Riot: DELS (featuring Roots Manuva) – Capsize

08/08/2011

As this review is being written, Tweetdeck's pop-up window appears repeatedly to comment on the Tottenham, now Dalston, and seemingly soon-to-be Hackney riots. The tweets range in their tone from...

Generation Genocide: John Sinclair (MC5)/ Bermondsey Joyriders

17/07/2011

Generation Genocide: Punk doesn’t nurture it preserves! The word ‘Punk’ must retire. Dispossessed from its ancient zeitgeist it bitterly refuses to die, refuses to compromise, and continues to...

Patrolling the Edges of Panic Town

01/07/2011

An academic navigates the great and small encounters of Ex-Pat life in Nigeria. Yesterday, I loaned my car to Joy and Julius. She said it was her birthday, and it seemed like a good idea at the...

Self-image is the beginning and the end of living [Henry ‘Fonzie’ Winkler]

30/06/2011

Known to many around the globe as The Fonz from the US TV Sitcom Happy Days, Henry Winkler has struggled with dyslexia his whole life and was recently in London supporting the First News education...

The Loneliness of a Long Distance Academy

24/06/2011

The university is open, and the experience has been, somewhat predictably, a mixture of the shambolic, the absurd, the vaguely promising and the outright perplexing. We have a programme for the...

A Casual Bombing in Nigeria

21/06/2011

On the 16th of June there was a bomb blast in Abuja, at the police headquarters. At the time of writing this they had not released the figures for the number of dead yet, except to confirm that...

Roger Waters Revives The Wall

20/05/2011

Roger Waters’ 2011 production of The Wall takes a classic of anomie and updates it with startling and necessary results. Roger Water’s transmutation of The Wall, a personal investigation...

Scenes of Plenty: British Library

14/05/2011

'men seek after a better notion of riches and of the art of getting wealth than the mere acquisition of coin'. Essay on Wealth...

Among the Ciphers of a Declining Empire

29/04/2011

Among Ciphers, Barn Burners and Confidence Artists: A Comb-Over Treatment for Declining Empire. Like postmodernist architecture, in which the aesthetic criteria of a structure's exterior often...

On the Brink of Democracy

27/04/2011

Nigeria is a confusing country for the stranger, and the situation only gets worse when you start looking at politics. As such I’m not going to try and give you a nicely crafted or...

Alternative Voting Referendum in the UK

24/04/2011

It seems like the two opposing side on the issue of Alternative Voting are becoming more vociferous in their pleas to the electorate however a TNS report has shown that the NO camp has a 10 point...

Wikipedia deemed a reliable source for political info by new study

15/04/2011

Not so long ago Wikipedia was considered a playground for Capitol Hill staffers to game the system and make "the boss look better and the opponent look ridiculous." Now a peer-reviewed...

Fighting Bias with Bias: The David Pakman Show.

15/04/2011

Reaching millions across the globe, David Pakman is the head of a non-corporate political talk show recorded from a small studio in Massachusetts. Predominantly syndicated across the US through...

Historian says history of nuclear power needs to be addressed

06/04/2011

CORVALLIS, Ore. – The long-standing conflicts over nuclear power and the risks of radiation exposure are nothing new – in fact, the debate over the damaged Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant in...

LSE Director steps down

04/03/2011

Accepting responsibility for accepting money from Gaddafi, LSE headboy Davies' resignation comes as an inquiry is launched into the affair....

Salem in Stoke Newington: Delaine Le Bas

06/02/2011

It is a rare occasion when one encounters a Minnie Mouse doll and is simultaneously delighted and extremely disturbed. Welcome to Delaine Le Bas’s Witchunt: a riot of joyful colour and texture,...

Davide Tiso: Millions of Melodies Erupting

15/01/2011

Davide Tiso is the inspired creative mind behind Ephel Duath as well as the truly progressive Manuscripts Don't Burn, why then isn’t he a household name in metal? During his...

Henry Rollins: Student Protests Are Great

05/01/2011

Henry Rollins talks to Trebuchet about politics and protest ...

UK Government to Back Online Petitions

28/12/2010

The UK government is to look into online petitioning which would allow the public to propose topics of discussion for parliament the government and intends to shut down the e-petitions part of the...

Chap-Hop Rivalry reaches New Heights

21/11/2010

Chap-Hop a particularly English form of Hip-Hop has become privy to some ugly scenes of one-up-manship recently between Mr B and Professor Elemental. ...

The Double Helix of Political Life

11/11/2010

In “What Mad Pursuit”, Francis Crick declares that he had no memory of walking into the Eagle pub in Cambridge and declaring that as a result of his discovery of the double helix of DNA along...