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The Animals and Children Took to the Streets [Theatre]

19/05/2013

Theatre that raises its game, incorporating elements of film and doing so without sacrificing plot, characterisation, and - oh, the rarity – charm!...

Legal Aid Cuts – Justice Denied

18/05/2013

A criminal defence solicitor speaks out against legal aid cuts...

Staring Into The Sun

14/05/2013

If you look at the brain like a machine, a machine needs fuel. Without sun the fuel runs out. We start to act funny...

Within The National (In)Security State 2

11/05/2013

Dismiss the cracked brain guardians of perpetual and displaced fear and regain the ability to move freely in the world...

Within The National (In)Security State: Fear as a Constant Companion

04/05/2013

How belligerently ignorant nationalists will forfeit their rights for the illusion of safety....

Life’s a bitch but Thatcher was a politician

27/04/2013

"Women are human" shocker. Yes, even Margaret Thatcher....

And then she was gone

18/04/2013

Perhaps some of the cheers were from people glad she was gone, who knows?...

The Legacy of Thatcher

17/04/2013

As Thatcher is buried, we examine the legacy of her policies in several key areas...

Mrs T’s Southern Stuffed Ham

16/04/2013

I will be thinking of Maggie when I next have a big ol’ lick...

No Score Draw : How Movie Music Fails Us [Final Part]

10/04/2013

'Art is not made by committee' SWP concludes his series on the art of the soundtrack...

Thatcher’s War on the Self

09/04/2013

Thatcherism, with its jingoism, slogans and partisanship, was all about destroying the self. ...

Joe Rogan ‘s Kale Shake Pt 2.

29/03/2013

How to make Kale Shake without Kale. March / April growing season can mean that Kale is hard to come by. What next? Cavolo Nero....

No Score Draw : How Movie Music Fails Us [Pt 3]

27/03/2013

If you want sublime original music you don’t ask a god-given talent to appropriate and subtly re-arrange a track by Enya....

Gangsters and Gunslingers : The American Museum in Britain

23/03/2013

Los Angeles was the last Western boom town – a place where elderly cowboys mingled with celluloid stars on Hollywood backlots. Wyatt Earp ended his days there. Gangsters and Gunslingers, at the...

No Score Draw : How Movie Music Fails Us [Pt 2]

21/03/2013

The great composers like Jarre responded heroically to the high expectations of both director and studio....

Satirical doublespeak? Is Orwell Outdated?

18/03/2013

Satirical doublespeak? New York Times Book Review calls Nineteen Eighty-four “outdated”...

No Score Draw : How Movie Music Fails Us

14/03/2013

Stringwash and atmospherics? If you notice a film's soundtrack that means it's failed? Not in SWP's opinion. The art of the film score, revisited....

Notes from the Noosphere

13/03/2013

The interconnectedness of all things internet has less in common with the neural network as with a fungal mycelium. So writes Andy Letcher...

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Rigorous Imagination and the Polis of the Psyche

09/03/2013

Circumstances do not change unless perceptions change. ...

Time is Tights : London Super Comics Convention

05/03/2013

Modern corporate comics are creatively empty franchises that have completely lost touch with the general public....

Empire Of Panic And Ephemera

02/03/2013

Keep buying stuff. More stuff! As long as you buy stuff, nobody needs to get hurt. The politics of Empire...

Counterpoint : Reich Bach at Ya!

01/03/2013

The truth of music in 2013 is that we don't really need a masterpiece right now. We need a higher grade of ordinary....

Freedom Toast : Southern Style

27/02/2013

I know you ladies like it thick ...

Democracy and Dubai Shopping Trips ; An Academic in Africa

26/02/2013

I would suggest that the fear of violent reprisal, or the knowledge that casting your vote made no difference because the seat had already been bought would lead some to conclude that they were not...

Fire in the Blood [Film]

20/02/2013

A healthcare industry that is allowed to continue monopolising the world will see many more needless deaths, all in the name of indifference and bottom dollar...

The Great Dismal

16/02/2013

Our actions exist as living architecture that surrounds the breathing moment. Future generations will dwell in the world we erect, thought by thought, deed by deed....

Super Mario Brothers, Reptilian Rape and the Hollow Earth Theory

15/02/2013

The ideology of imperialism runs deep in Bowser. He is also, at least, a kidnapper, but more probably a pedophile. ...

The Best Form of Defence : Most Offensive Songs

14/02/2013

In a twisted celebration of the offensively smug Valentine's Day message, Trebuchet rounded up some contributors for an overview of musical offensiveness....