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Forgiving Jeremy Clarkson: Forgiving Ourselves. [Top Gear]

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

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System of a Down Rage Against Armenian Genocide

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

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A spurious god created by a corrupt elite – Capitalism

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...

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Take science out of it; everything is fiction (The Rezillos)

'the music, the song writing and the recorded performances are by far the most important thing'...

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Don’t Slap Her, She’s Pretty!

Girls who want to avoid being clobbered should aim to be tall, blonde and pretty. Does the 'Slap Her!' video send out the wrong message? ...

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Music : Did We Even Like it Anyway?

Why is the music industry failing? Perhaps it’s just that most folk never really liked it much anyway....

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Sigmar Polke at the Tate: Where Mao meets the Sausage Eater

Polke’s humour wasn’t sarcastic, it was a form of rebellion. His volatile artistic tendencies that leave us breathless in awe were his way of shedding each and every conceptual artistic form....

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Suspicion : Jerwood Encounters

Much of the exhibition literature talks of the legacy of film and photography, but the internet and its spawned cacophony of imagery and new modes of looking is clearly also a player in this...

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Anselm Kiefer : Royal Academy

When Kiefer is at his best we don’t need the leaden symbolism of diamonds, not when the mud and filth of paint can carry the weight of time and gold...

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Mariachi El Bronx III

Here they’ve taken the vernacular and made something contemporary and lasting...

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Julian Bahula [African National Congress] : Interview

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

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Reflections on Gamergate

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....

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RIP Colin McQuillan [Photos]

Irreverent and raucous, Runnin' Riot brought a touch of humour and attitude to Northern Ireland's punk scene...

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Kazimir Malevich : A Beautiful Mind

His work is the exteriorisation of the infinite space within our minds regardless of time and space, regardless of whether we are in Gaza, Duma, Mosul or Kiev....

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United Over Ukraine [Interview]

A completely civic initiative, without any backing from government and/or organizations affiliated with political parties...

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Images of Africa

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

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Make the Money, Change the Game

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....

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Send Scriptonite to Palestine!

This is not a conflict, it is a slowly unfolding genocide....

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Pain Eraser : I’ll Take Two!

Canadian scientists make a breakthrough in pain relief treatments. Using chili and mice....

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Alt-Fest Organiser Dominic Void [Interview]

Promising edgy art, truly creative sideshows, and oddball theatre, Alt-Fest is more than just an alternative music festival. Dominic Void explains all....

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Empire’s Ghost Pt. 3 : Scottish Nationalism

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

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Sedition and The 1%

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

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The NHS ‘Permanent Frontier’

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

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Religion: The River of the World

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. ...

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UKIP Turn to Police to Censor Twitter

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....

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D S C R D : Interview

Some people react more poetically, have nice abstract or artistic concepts, create an imaginary world or whatever. We do not have any of this....

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Art Belongs to the People : Ashmolean Museum

A show focussed on a previously overlooked dynamic between the grandfather of the post-war avant garde, Joseph Beuys, and his politically mobilized student at the Dusseldorf Academy: Jörg...

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Quantum Cryptography for your Phone

Study into the production of the first 'NSA proof' mobile phone...

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In Defence of Iain Duncan Smith

It is time to mount a defence of one the most hated figures in British politics - Iain Duncan Smith ...

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This is not a Government : This is a Mafia

This government, with unprecedented audacity and speed, are transforming our nation run on laws and institutions, into one run on patronage and privilege – more like a mafia of the 1% than a...

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