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Desiree Akhavan in Appropriate Behaviour 2

Don’t give me your lesbian orphan propaganda! (Appropriate Behaviour)

28/06/2015

Appropriate Behaviour is indication of an exceptionally strong new filmmaking talent....

Expanding Worlds : Across the Sheer Size of Africa

27/06/2015

Like my wallet, I'm holding cultural currencies with bills from over twenty African nations. ...

Does the Devil Have the Best Tunes?

19/06/2015

Passion at every level, from personal trauma, hit and run thrill and love, to the way the world is moving: its cruelty, its pains and pleasures....

Bursting the pink bubble of partisan fantasy

17/06/2015

You do not actually believe that it is possible to vote away oligarchic rule and militarist/police state imperium… do you?...

Smell the air and rub the sky

12/06/2015

For most of us in the cities and towns the weather is just something that happens to us, something inconvenient, an impediment. Perhaps we should pay it more attention. ...

Secret Trade Courts: are the scales TTIPing?

09/06/2015

Tobacco companies could get litigious if a country passes laws to help people quit smoking. Agrochemicals companies could throw the book at governments that block chemicals they consider dangerous....

Death in the Afternoon : Political Slaughter in Spain

28/05/2015

Personal charisma, rockstar presentation and the common touch may indeed be a successful formula for political power....

South Sudan : Towards Redemption, Towards Peace

23/05/2015

They wanted peace, a chance to return to their homes....

Obama Fills His Suit Only Too Well

22/05/2015

While it is tempting to label Barack Obama, as many have, an "empty suit." Fact is, the term is not only facile but inaccurate....

Why David Cameron is a Massive Loser

16/05/2015

Cameron is so indebted to so many people, it's hard to actually say he's 'won' anything....

Goblinballs, Golden Gods, Gowns.

13/05/2015

The crowd are jubilant, golden-faced and shiny-eyed, there to dance until they can dance no longer....

An extortion and shakedown racket. Which you elected.

09/05/2015

You accepted your economic betters' paltry bribes and transformed mass media consumer distraction into your mode of being...

Mystical Moves, Dance and Freedom : Interview [Salah El Brogy]

06/05/2015

There’s a thriving dance community in the UK that really helps you keep that fire in your belly...

Red Ink and Difficult Happiness. Interview Pt 2 [Beth Hart]

27/04/2015

I got a ton of tattoos, at first I bullshitted and said that every one meant something to me and it was some deep thing, and it really wasn’t....

The Radiophonic Workshop. Queen Elizabeth Hall, 2015

25/04/2015

Although they're still going strong these are in a way end-of-an-era shows carrying a huge and fascinating weight of history....

Forgiving Jeremy Clarkson: Forgiving Ourselves. [Top Gear]

22/04/2015

The culture wars have become so divisive, even the organisation that tolerated Jimmy Savile is obliged now to take sides....

Watching the Hugos burn. Sci-Fi Controversy Wreaks Havoc

21/04/2015

At this point, the Hugo Awards of 2015 look as good as dead, and everyone is now fighting over a corpse....

Charging out: Dataflame’s costly domain transfer fees

12/04/2015

In 2014, popular web domain registrar 123-reg created a disgruntled buzz when, they started charging people to move their domains away. In 2015, it seems that Dataflame are charging £15+vat to...

System of a Down Rage Against Armenian Genocide

10/04/2015

So all-encompassing was this attempt to exterminate a nation that the term “genocide” was invented...

A time-traveller’s log : The Stele of Revealing

09/04/2015

Over the 3 days comprising the 8th, 9th and 10th of April 2015 Thelemites around the world will celebrate the transmission of Liber Al Vegis to Aleister Crowley in a Cairo hotel room....

Language games across the checkmate of infinity

07/04/2015

These are not really poems, that's why I put the word poem in inverted commas in the title. ...

West Africa Redux : Twenty Kinds of Awesome in Africa

03/04/2015

'whenever I mention Mali, Ghana, or Sierra Leone, the inevitable question is usually, "What was your favorite place?"'...

An initial crunch, then a soft succulent filling [Port Royal Patties]

02/04/2015

'New Product Development can be time consuming and wasteful. On the other hand, customers want to see NPD from time to time'...

Artist or designer? [Alexander McQueen retrospective]

01/04/2015

McQueen wraps the girls up protectively, in fabrics fitted so elegantly and perfectly that you begin to wonder if the clothing is meant to be like a shield....

A spurious god created by a corrupt elite – Capitalism

30/03/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”A/dropcapfter one presents a cogent critique of capitalism, one is likely to hear the following as a reply from the propagandized, good...

Wigger, Wigga, Once Again

23/03/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”F/dropcapurther musings on whether we were racist to use the term ‘wigga’ in a Trebuchet article…. Wigga. The word...

The Man Who Brought Fantasy to the Masses [Terry Pratchett Eulogy]

14/03/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”I/dropcapt is fitting that Terry Pratchett, who did so much with the written word, will now have acres upon acres of column inches dedicated...

Frankie had them both on the ground and bleeding in two hits.

06/03/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”I/dropcapn my junior year I saw thirty-five fist fights. They came like some pandemic no one had ever seen, and no one knew what to do. One...

Sane? That’s a Tough Goal in Insane Times

03/03/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”H/dropcapuman activity (since the advent of the oxymoron known as industrial civilization) has been defined by the exploitation of human...

The Ecocidal Feedback Loop of Consumerism

24/02/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”E/dropcapcocide. Methane feedback loops. And perpetual, low-grade war for the planet’s resources that will render her hostile to human...

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