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Applied Carpe Diem – Living and Dying with ALS

17/07/2014

To fully appreciate life, we also need to understand and appreciate death...

Loitered Lens : Twin Atlantic

13/07/2014

Photos of Twin Atlantic live at the Hospital Club, 8th July 2014...

Austerity = Kids Eating from Bins

12/07/2014

Logic has been ignored – and now we have children eating scraps from bins to survive. ...

The Festival Burner

08/07/2014

Now with bank apps, emails, incriminating pictures, your phone is an invitation to be blackmailed, divorced or arrested. A lost phone infinitely more so....

Time for the Twitter Bubble to Burst

05/07/2014

If your Twitter row is resulting in someone being fired, imprisoned or put at risk, it is time to get some perspective on your internet use...

Fourth of July Spitroast

04/07/2014

There's a whole lot of meat between the rooter and the tooter so that means there's little point in getting it on unless the whole neighbourhood is coming...

How I Got Banned From Canada

01/07/2014

I was a documented citizen of a country, with a passport, and I spoke English. What could go wrong?...

Of Old Gits and Hamsters’ Arses

28/06/2014

Farage and Co. are not a bold rejection of the old order – they’re simply extreme expressions of it...

Naked from the Waist Down

27/06/2014

'No matter how well prepared you are, you can’t predict all the uncertainties.' A half-naked man proves a metaphor for travel in Africa....

Stylus Stories

26/06/2014

It is modern folklore, providing an insight into the human condition and a soundtrack to match. Stylus stories listening club....

Can Analytics Drive Creativity?

25/06/2014

For some this questions appears to be the unholy marketing spawn of a top floor baking table. For others, knowledge and data have always facilitated the creative market. ...

decision by freedigitalhotos.net/Jeroen van Oostrom

Empire’s Ghost Pt. 3 : Scottish Nationalism

21/06/2014

Scottish Nationalism has always been just a reaction to a changing world, and an attempt to find a place in it...

Forbidden Rice

20/06/2014

With rice so readily available today, it is hard to imagine that stealing something as simple as a handful of black rice could result in a death penalty...

Finding Nick Tosches

19/06/2014

I asked him how he had gotten his first book published. “It’s a dead industry”, he said....

Death of a Salesman – Harare Style

16/06/2014

In Zimbabwe... relationships are still alive, still important. They’re the only thing that carried so many through such trying times....

Loitered Lens: Throne

15/06/2014

Pictures of Throne live at the Cob Gallery, London...

Edinburgh by freedigital and Vichaya Kiatying-Angsulee

Empire’s Ghost Pt. 2 : Scottish Nationalism

14/06/2014

Although the precise question of Scotland’s relationship with Union is rightly a question for Scots, the nature of that Union is a matter for all...

Blake / St. Mungo’s Broadway : Interview

13/06/2014

Homelessness can affect anybody and everybody. Homelessness is not a class or economic problem. It’s a social and support problem....

Rice and Redemption : The Learning Farm

10/06/2014

I am glad that some of them are now coming back and learn the old skills of the farm. A person should know how to grow their own food....

Empire’s Ghost : Scottish Nationalism

07/06/2014

In a sense, this is Scotland’s guilty secret. Independence was not taken by the English, but given up by Scots....

Loitered Lens: Slash and Myles Kennedy

05/06/2014

Slash and Myles Kennedy played the House of Parliament in June 2014. Here are some photos. ...

Sedition and The 1%

31/05/2014

An inhuman system that has come to stand for little but the empty perpetuation of itself...

Dressing up Undressing : London Burlesque Festival

29/05/2014

The fact that something so nostalgic, so artless and so utterly un-PC could sell out, almost thawed my cold ‘let’s reclaim the female gaze’ heart...

Politics as usual, Has Failed

27/05/2014

In our time, politics as usual has failed to address the most pressing issues of the age...

Appeal to the great spirit by Jim Heaphy

The NHS ‘Permanent Frontier’

24/05/2014

We either acquiesce to the piecemeal destruction of our public services, or we remove all support for those who seek to destroy them....

Religion: The River of the World

23/05/2014

For the majority of Zimbabweans, however, Sunday is a day of praise and worship, a day that lasts all day whether you like it or not. ...

UKIP Turn to Police to Censor Twitter

17/05/2014

When a political party and its members seek to use the police or lawyers to silence legitimate criticism of their policies in the run-up to an election, we cannot merely cuss about it....