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There Has Possibly Been An Incident [Theatre]

03/10/2013

It's slightly pretentious. And it will frustrate you. But mostly with how close to brilliant it gets....

The People on the Bus

01/10/2013

She didn't want to talk to anyone, in case they tried to sell her into slavery. I assured her that if she wanted to speak to me, that I would get the best price I could...

NHS Gagging Order Fight Intensifies

30/09/2013

An incredible 8,222 38 Degrees members, from all across the UK, have donated to help turn up the heat on key MPs about the gagging law. The campaigners are near their target but they need your help....

What’s Behind The Mask?

28/09/2013

Trebuchet's debate about banning full-face veils rears its partially obscured head again...

Breaking Bad: The Aesthetics of Aspirational Evil

27/09/2013

Vince Gilligan has said in interviews that Breaking Bad started as an idea of creating show in which a sympathetic protagonist became a terrifying antagonist. Revisiting the show, this becomes clear....

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The Songs of Lovecraft’s Children

25/09/2013

Gary Hill won’t make a fortune from The Strange Sound of Cthulhu: Music Inspired by the Writings of H. P. Lovecraft, or be interviewed on breakfast TV about it, but it had to be written....

Veiled Racism, Veiled Sexism

21/09/2013

Shouldn’t everyone be allowed to wear whatever she or he wants, whether it’s a veil, a rubber miniskirt or a clown outfit? Should the State really be able to tell us how we must or mustn’t...

Mesmerism and Quantum Entanglement [Interview]

20/09/2013

Our true contact with eternity is right here, right now. Judgements, explanations, rationalisations will never teach us...

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PAFT Relief with Rachael Reichert

19/09/2013

CyBelle Horizon: a comic book, a video and a catwalk show all surrounded by vintage issues of American comic books. It could, and perhaps should, have been a total disaster...

Britain is Booming?

14/09/2013

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...

Mesmerism Revisited : Lee Gerrard-Barlow [Interview]

13/09/2013

Human beings are essentially creatures of habit, we tend to follow the path of least resistance in almost everything that we do. ...

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Occupy London at the DSEI Arms Fair

11/09/2013

Inside: a variety of meetings and conferences by delegates, discussing the proliferation of weapons, the issues surrounding a discourse of deadly peace, and the spread of gunpowder dialogue. Quicker,...

The Archive : Obsession, Festivals and Time

10/09/2013

There are so many regulations. I think the way the UK is policed these days it would be very difficult to do free festivals...

The Sorry Tale Of Universal Credit

07/09/2013

Any attempt at reforming social security based on the nonsensical myth that unemployed people are responsible for unemployment is bound to end in disaster. ...

John Noveske’s Link to Drugs and School Shootings

06/09/2013

This is the last post John Noveske made on his Facebook page before his death:...

Important podcasts to Improve Your Life.

06/09/2013

In podcasts alternative media has become truly democratised: anyone with a point of view can reach an audience (and by repeating the process achieve fame) with little technical knowledge and less...

Fracking: The Battle for Balcombe

31/08/2013

Balcombe has become the front line in the battle against not simply fracking – but our right to have a say in the big decisions that shape our world...

Seamus Heaney RIP

30/08/2013

Few Nobel laureates make visits to state schools to discuss poetry. Heaney did....

Ministry : Drug Gospels by Al Jourgensen

30/08/2013

'As Al puts it: the guy that was supposed to have his back was clamped on it'. The Ministry story, according to Jourgenson....

Gun Control? Lock and Load

24/08/2013

Col Jon Burrows returns. Trebuchet's man in the States defends his right to bear arms....

Cashed Out, Classed Out: Harare Edition

23/08/2013

Every once in a while, with a little luck, and no shame, you can have a killer night for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

The Trouble With Harry

20/08/2013

If, by purposeful default, the authorities allow the streets to become a cesspit, don’t be surprised if the people secretly long for the protection of a Police State...

We Are Not All Trayvon Martin

17/08/2013

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

Philip K Dick : An Adapted Man

14/08/2013

As far as adaptations of Philip K Dick’s work go there are not as many as you might think...

Green Tea Protest Lemonade

13/08/2013

Drink the green, clean your pipes, cool yourself off and beat back the military-industrial complex in one fell swoop with Trebuchet's Green Tea Lemonade....

Less Than Zero Hours?

10/08/2013

As the number of workers on 'zero-hours' contracts is estimated at over a million, new fees for employment tribunal claims put justice out of reach for many...

Wings of Wax and a Missed Payday

08/08/2013

If the pink beam was indeed a vital message from beyond, then Phillip K Dick proved to be a totally unsuitable transmission device for it....

Sometimes the Stars Rain Down Hard

03/08/2013

Off World, a new and unexpected threat to Phil’s razor-edged peace of mind was lurking in the wings. Its name was Blade Runner...

Why ‘Chav’ is a Feminist Issue

03/08/2013

The discourse around ‘chavs’ can be a cover for denigrating the social agency and sexual autonomy of working-class women, as well as wider political attacks on the working class. ...