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Lessons in Leadership: What Sanders Could Learn From Corbyn

29/09/2016

Jeremy Corbyn's leadership triumph shows what Sanders might have been...

Is the US A New Weimar? If So, The Democrats Made It

21/09/2016

If Donald Trump is the symptom of US sickness, it is the Democrats who are the disease...

It’s A Start: Being Bipolar, Accepting I’m Ill (Mental Health)

18/09/2016

The first step to better mental health is accepting there's a problem. ...

Manifesto for a Future Sonic Programme: Mugako (J.C. )

13/09/2016

J.C. delivers abstract and ominous techno soundscapes with a political edge...

Loitered Lens: Man and the Echo

30/08/2016

Photos of political popsters Man and the Echo at the Lexington, London...

A Sheepdog’s Trials: Bernie Bows Out

29/07/2016

True to form, the sheepdog that is Bernie Sanders rolls over for Mummy. ...

A Farewell to Bernie, the Two-Legged Democrat Sheepdog

11/07/2016

Subdued by Hillary, Sanders joins the lengthy list of Democrat fallguys...

Congressman John Lewis: You Can Sit, But What Do You Stand For?

04/07/2016

A recent Washington sit-in by the Civil Rights veteran offers little but an entrenchment of the establishment...

Loitered Lens: Mudhoney (at Primavera, Porto)

01/07/2016

Mudhoney show no signs of drying up on the baked fields of Primavera, Porto. Photos...

Notable for its Collaborators (Faulkner)

23/05/2016

Interview with Dimitri Farougias from US Pop band Faulkner. ...

Nothing Happens at All, Part Three: Charity

16/04/2016

If possessions enslave us, and suffering numbs us, what gives us a warm, if impotent, glow? Charity...

Debt, Housing, Creative Solutions: Construct the Future at Hoxton Gallery

11/04/2016

Native's Hoxton Gallery show draws attention to the modern debt/housing crisis, but less typically, suggests solutions...

Possessions, Suffering, Charity: Why Nothing Ever Happens (Part Two)

08/04/2016

Far from de-sensitizing us, repeated media imagery of suffering neatly cows us into lucrative obesiance...

Smoke, Mirrors, and a Dishonest Lexicon.

02/04/2016

Even the words we use are skewed to obfuscate truth and maintain elites. What we call 'terrorism' could also be termed 'effect'. Essay...

(Why) Nothing Ever Happens, Nothing Happens at All

31/03/2016

Possessions, Suffering, Charity. A trinity to stultify a population and assuage the morality of the comfortable pragmatists....

The Timeline of Being a Woman

17/02/2016

Political activist Lisa Muggeridge chronicles the ways culture, politics and society combine to control women's lives....

Attacking the Devil: Harold Evans and the Last Nazi War Crime (Film)

22/01/2016

The story that proved we CAN fight Big Pharma, Attacking the Devil is a rallying cry to the spirit of truth...

David Bowie, Cuts, and Why ‘Culture’ is becoming Another Planet

16/01/2016

Bowie's mere presence personified the power and relevance of a cultured society that appreciated and allowed him to emerge and for the rest of us to reach for those rewarding stars as well...

When All is Dark, Have Faith in Night

07/01/2016

By a poetic descent into the underworld, one is confronted with truths that only can be revealed in darkness....

Star Wars and the Escapism of the Mindless

29/12/2015

What will a future Democratic president's agenda will entail? Hint: Take note of which Republican declarations Democratic partisans are fuming in self-righteous outrage against now....

Reliable Witness. At the launch of Bleeds. (Roots Manuva)

15/12/2015

Roots Manuva has become almost a national treasure – certainly to anyone with even the most passing interest in UK hip hop...

We Shall Overmeme: Why Slacktivists Make a Difference

11/12/2015

A new study of Twitter use during social protests finds that a critical periphery of 'slacktivists' greatly amplify a movement's message...

Four Ways Your Apps are Snooping on You

06/12/2015

UC Riverside study shows popular apps interact with risky websites...

Fear and Fascism: Tools of the Trade

05/12/2015

To persist, the capitalist order demands submission to ruthless authority and must peddle fear of an alien other....

The Other Dave: The Tory Leader We Could Have Had

28/11/2015

The man Cameron beat to the Tory leadership proves how different things could’ve been...

Attack, Retaliate, Attack. When Will it End?

23/11/2015

If their designs work out as planned, the elite will, as they always have, enrich their already engorged fortunes on the suffering and death of the powerless....

Strive to Shirk, Why Hard Work Doesn’t Work

14/11/2015

No wonder governments like to advocate 'hard work'. The last thing they want is people with minds and lives of their own. Overworked people know their place. ...

Move Both Directions at Once: Traversing the Greed-Deranged Earth of Neoliberal Capitalism

07/11/2015

Our trajectory must be halted; it is crucial that we become waylaid by the pull of a force larger than ourselves...

Powerlessness, Anxiety and the Political Tides: A Coping Strategy

07/08/2015

We build a structure of false consciousness… that we, often, mistake for our convictions, and tragically mistake this dismal dwelling for the whole of existence....