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Keeping The Faith – The Billy Bragg Election Tour

24/11/2019 Carl Byron Batson

This sold-out show was a call to arms that there is another way, and that we can take a great leap forwards to a fairer, more equal society. (read more)

Hair Of The Dog – Or Not?

17/03/2019 Carl Byron Batson

Ferocious Dog shave the Mohawk and unleash the hell hounds on Highbury’s Garage. (read more)

Ballot: Satirical Saturday Cartoon on Art by Alex Brenchley 2019

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16/03/2019 Alex Brenchley

Ballot: Satirical Saturday Cartoon on Art by Alex Brenchley 2019 (read more)

US Art Dealers Mobilising in Support of Democrats

06/11/2018 Naila Scargill

An initiative by Swing Left is part of an effort to mobilise the left-leaning energies of the art world to get out the vote for Democrats.
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Solidarity And Songwriting – Grace Petrie Interview Part 2

17/08/2018 Sarah Corbett-Batson

Sarah Corbett-Batson: To what extent do you feel that you’re preaching to the converted? Grace: What is the converted these days? I tell you, I can’t remember another time in my life that I’ve felt (read more)

Solidarity and Skittles – Grace Petrie Interview Part 1

14/08/2018 Sarah Corbett-Batson

Singer-songwriter Grace Petrie talks about her renewed faith in the Labour Party, queer politics and Skittles (read more)

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Girl With No Name

29/06/2018 Michael Eden

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the crusading socialist who just shocked American politics. (read more)

A Taste of Dissent

21/06/2018 Michael Eden

Investigative journalist Abby Martin and the challenge of enquiry (read more)

A Whiff of Polonium, Or Smoke and Mirrors?

22/03/2018 Phil Rockstroh

US economic and militarist aggression is to blame for Russian military posturing. (read more)

Guns, Firearms and (Don’t) Have a Go Heroes

15/03/2018 Phil Rockstroh

Few among us can predict how they would respond in an eruption of violent, death-delivering madness. Better not to judge. (read more)

Plastic pollution doesn't just wash up on the beach - it is a threat to the whole of our environment.

Reinventing the Plastic Bottle

01/03/2018 Trebuchet News

Plastic pollution is a major crisis, especially in the form of bottles. So, what can we do? (read more)

Boris Johnson is represented here by a wax-work. But can we tell the difference?

Boris Johnson – the blonde bomb site returns

22/02/2018 Alexander Hay

It’s perhaps too easy to mock Boris Johnson. And yet he remains an ominous symptom of a society in decline. (read more)

Gender equality in Westminster is still a work in progress.

Hundreds of Westminster seats effectively men-only

15/02/2018 Trebuchet News

Gender equality in Parliament is held back by Westminster’s voting system, according to new research by the Electoral Reform Society. (read more)

Who needs Web Porn when you've got Hot Swan on Leda action?

Web Porn: The War on W*nk

15/02/2018 Alexander Hay

Plans to restrict Web Porn is more informed by humbug than serious debates, and reflects a deeper social dysfunction. (read more)

Beppe Grillo is a clear example of the line between Comedy & Politics being crossed. But is that a good thing?

‘Is That Funny?’ Comedy and Politics

08/02/2018 Trebuchet News

Across the globe, the line between Comedy and Politics is growing ever more blurred. This event discusses the implications, and the punchlines, that result. (read more)

Trump gives the 2018 State of the Union address with Vice President Pence and Speaker Ryan in the background.

SOTU 2018: Donald Trump Colonises America

08/02/2018 Alexander Hay

Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech last week revealed many things and (surprise) more than a few echoes of colonialism. (read more)

Blackmail, Sexism, Bias: RIP BBC News

25/01/2018 Alexander Hay

It is time for BBC News to die. It is in a dreadful state, like a horse in the Grand National that’s about to be shot. (read more)

America, Whither Went the Dream?

24/01/2018 Carl Byron Batson

On the hunt for the spectres of an American dream long departed (read more)

You may like privatisation, but not a lot.

Carillion’s fall – privatisation and magical thinking

18/01/2018 Alexander Hay

In the aftermath of Carillion’s collapse, and its winning of government contracts despite clear profit warnings, where does this leave privatisation? (read more)