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Julian Bahula [African National Congress] : Interview

03/11/2014

When Julian Bahula tells you music contains the power of revolution, that it is “a weapon for the struggle,” you believe him....

The BBC Is Snooping on You

01/11/2014

The BBC regularly uses spying powers granted under The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, intended for the interception of communications by terrorists....

pumpkin by freedigitalphotos.net and franky242

Trick or Treat! A Celebration of Samhain

30/10/2014

It is the festival of Samhain from whence our contemporary experience of Hallowe'en stems...

Max Richter : Royal Albert Hall [Live]

27/10/2014

The final word is this was a truly historic evening for music, and Vivaldi’s reputation to wow audiences shines undimmed. ...

We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Passes! Africa by Bike

25/10/2014

The longer I'm on the bike, the more existential the ride seems to get....

Richard Dawkins to Guest on Heavy Metal Song

22/10/2014

Band reveals the famed evolutionary biologist and atheist writer/leader Richard Dawkins as a guest on their eighth studio album....

Reflections on Gamergate

21/10/2014

There are valid points about censorship and freedom of expression to be made, but this fatally-tainted hashtag isn't an appropriate vehicle for it....

Thunder in the Distant Past

13/10/2014

For my money, along with The Pistols and The Clash, The Heartbreakers were the only outfit to really ‘get it’, whatever ‘it’ was in 1977....

Ebola : A Dog’s Life For Us All

11/10/2014

Destroying Excalibur the dog doesn’t bode well for how our governments will respond if there is a major Ebola outbreak outside of Africa....

Niggas, Wiggas, Niggers, Wiggers. Language and the right to self-identify

07/10/2014

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”H/dropcap ow long you niggas ball? All day, nigga. How much time you spent at the mall? All day, nigga. – Kanye West In response to an...

Francis Dunnery [Interview]

06/10/2014

I think it is a dreadful mistake to base your decisions on what an audience might like. Audiences are as fickle as a donkey's tail....

Lost in Lesotho

28/09/2014

For a time, I thought about hitching my way back up to Ha Lejone, to save my pride and deny that Lesotho had truly beaten me....

When The TUC Abandoned Unions

19/09/2014

The power of labour to challenge capital is to be absorbed into the benefits system. Trade unions are no longer necessary....

wounded boy, Gaza, by Kerry Anne Mendoza

In Gaza : Israel’s War on Children

05/09/2014

Not only are their homes destroyed, but their entire families have been wiped out. What is the future of these children?...

Gurney at Al Shifa hospital, Gaza, by Kerry Anne Mendoza

In Gaza : The Aftermath of Hell

02/09/2014

I fail to see the military value of these targets. It feels more like a terror campaign to beat any notion of statehood out of Gaza’s population....

shattered bedroom in Beit Hanoun, Gaza, by Kerry Anne Mendoza

In Gaza : Yesterday Pregnant, Today Dead

30/08/2014

Die, slowly and forgotten inside the world’s largest open prison – or push for freedom? Gaza's choice. ...

Brompton World Championship

29/08/2014

The Brompton World Championship is a serious endeavour. Fun and colourful yes, but also earnest and limit pushing....

Remains of the Al Masrani's apartment, Gaza

In Gaza : ‘They Gassed Us in Our Beds’

28/08/2014

F-16s roar across the sky, drones buzz, and the deep thud of shelling can be heard....

They Shot My Baby Dead in My Arms : Gaza

26/08/2014

“We will not anymore live like animals. Let us live in dignity, or die with honour.”...

Présence Autochtone: Montreal First Peoples Festival

18/08/2014

Présence Autochtone, Montreal First Peoples Festival, celebrates the cultural heritage of the Americas' aboriginal nations through film, music, dance and other visual arts....

Make the Money, Change the Game [Part 2]

15/08/2014

There's little to prepare you for paying for a drink and getting your change in three different currencies....

Why Guardians of the Galaxy Sucked

13/08/2014

They’ve made a successful film; the least they can do is follow up with a good one....

Moebius [Film]

09/08/2014

Castration and rape, incest and heavy emphasis on some decidedly unconventional masturbation are far from mainstream viewing topics...

Israel and Gaza : Same Old, Same Old

02/08/2014

Extremism needs dysfunction to flower...

Images of Africa

30/07/2014

Images of Africa. Jyoti Bindu steers wide of the politics and brings the pictures....

On Troubadours, Sufism and Robert Graves

28/07/2014

The original medieval troubadours, who expounded the art of Courtly Love through poetry and song and who were embroiled with the heretical ideas of gnosticism and Catharism, owed their existence to...

Veracity of Soul and Materialist Reductionism

26/07/2014

a person who believes they have no soul is as dangerous to our besieged planet, in their own way, as one who is out to save the soul of others...

Make the Money, Change the Game

24/07/2014

If one had to buy diesel for a car or generator, it was best to buy in the morning, prices could increase many times over by afternoon....

Singapore’s Library Board Pulps Books

19/07/2014

Should the library be allowed to impose a moralistic "pro-family" (anti-LGBTQ) policy over its public access collections and withdraw those books which do not reflect those so-called "community...