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Gagging the Opposition

The UK Parliament has just passed a new gagging law. How will gagging affect a loyal opposition?...

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Chavs and Austerity

For those of us caught in austerity, there was no shock. Austerity is a forced return home....

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Uwe Schmidt / Atom TM : Interview

I never touched the topic of "harmonies" or "musical notes"… everything was just "rhythmical sound", that either "worked" or "did not work"....

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Hanging Offence : Erarta Zurich

Without controversy there would be no discussion. Without discussion there would be no mental growth, no change. Therefore it is crucial. Erarta, Zurich. Interview...

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Tom De Freston : The Charnel House

De Freston’s is a primarily personal painterly vocabulary of translated - rather than quoted - cultural references...

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Dear Media, Where Were You?

A few days ago on 5th November, hacktivist group Anonymous succeeded in mobilising hundreds of thousands of people in 477 locations in over 150 countries around the world. ...

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London Film Festival : Short Term 12

Short Term 12 is an impressive, emotive film that indicates some good material to come from Cretton....

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Britain is Booming?

A real world recession for the majority is applauded as a recovery, when all that is recovered are the profits for transnational corporations, and incomes of high earners, most of whom pay little or...

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We Are Not All Trayvon Martin

Why tackling what happened to Trayvon Martin requires more than shouting his name and pretending you are the same....

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Adam X (Traversable Wormhole) : Interview

'There was a strict agenda, but only in terms of designing it to being spatial and outer worldly-sounding.' Traversable Wormhole's Adam X talks to Codex Europa...

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TOAD : Endless Night

A night-perfect fusion of doom (both traditional and modern), black metal and Groooooooove....

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Sarah Corbett: Interview (Part 2)

In part 2 of this interview, Trebuchet's Sarah Corbett speaks to the Craftivist Collective's Sarah Corbett about political art, Tracey Emin and Occupy...

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Sarah Corbett: Interview (Part 1)

In part one of this interview, Trebuchet's Sarah Corbett speaks to the Craftivist Collective's Sarah Corbett about the growth of craftivism, practical issues and how craftivism can change and...

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And Now Brazil?

And Now Brazil? Gonzo Politics, Mass Protest and the Standing Man...

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Resistanbul: Turkish Protests

Turkish people do not call these events 'protests'; they call the whole set of events ‘direnis’ which means ‘resistance’ in Turkish....

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Henry Diltz Interview [Part 2]

It was all peace and love; let the universe decide, do it the right way. That’s the way life should be and maybe it will....

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Hanging Offence : Jerwood Charitable Foundation

It’s a travesty that political society, for the most part, doesn’t value artistic thinking and exploration as it should. This civilisation will be poorer in all ways as a result....

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Intersectionality

Race, class, gender, sexuality, age, geography, identity and the economic inequality our system requires, comes down on women’s lives brutally....

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What Money Can’t Buy – The Moral Limits of Markets [Review]

Like all manifestations of human agency, the market is just a tool, a means of negotiating and managing resources. If the markets can corrupt or wreck havoc, it is because we let them. ...

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Reverend Elvis Interview [Part 2]

I don't follow any religion or political ideology or whatever. I can think by myself....

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Life’s a bitch but Thatcher was a politician

"Women are human" shocker. Yes, even Margaret Thatcher....

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About Trebuchet

Trebuchet’s writers are university lecturers, record label owners, gallery curators, professional journalists, avid readers and you....

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And then she was gone

Perhaps some of the cheers were from people glad she was gone, who knows?...

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The Legacy of Thatcher

As Thatcher is buried, we examine the legacy of her policies in several key areas...

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Thatcher’s War on the Self

Thatcherism, with its jingoism, slogans and partisanship, was all about destroying the self. ...

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Empire Of Panic And Ephemera

Keep buying stuff. More stuff! As long as you buy stuff, nobody needs to get hurt. The politics of Empire...

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Democracy and Dubai Shopping Trips ; An Academic in Africa

I would suggest that the fear of violent reprisal, or the knowledge that casting your vote made no difference because the seat had already been bought would lead some to conclude that they were not...

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The Great Dismal

Our actions exist as living architecture that surrounds the breathing moment. Future generations will dwell in the world we erect, thought by thought, deed by deed....

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Gael Garcia Bernal in No [Film]

No is a deeply involving experience, and in no small part due to Bernal's performance....

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Janet LaBelle : New Jersey, Pizza and Punk Pop

'it could take years…or even a lifetime to write anything you think is ever any good'...

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