Tag: politics

Loitered Lens: Billy Bragg and Sean McGowan

13/12/2017

Activist singer-songwriters go head-to-head at Islington's Assembly Hall...

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Exclusive Colleges Make For More Inclusive Colleges. Whut?!

08/12/2017

Student-led protests for inclusive campuses are more likely at selective universities ...

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Looking for a New Islington? Billy Bragg

06/12/2017

Billy Bragg's Bridges Not Walls tour rolls up to the proletarian boulevards of Islington...

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The Trump Effect: Blaming Liberals for Ecology

08/11/2017

Rise of populism affects wildlife management in US ...

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Reel Big Fish

Loitered Lens: Reel Big Fish

07/11/2017

Photos from the Reel Big Fish performance at the Kentish Town Forum, October 2017...

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“I want to show greatness, fragility, softness and power.”: Alexis Peskine

05/10/2017

Peskine's nail sculptures transform anger into hope and pride...

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Half Deaf Clatch Tells Tales… That Damage His Bank Account

20/09/2017

Clatch's music won't make him rich, but it'd be a poorer world without it...

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Heterochrome, Melancholia

To Die For? Iranian Metallers Heterochrome Offer Melancholia Against All Odds

06/09/2017

Progressive metal from Iran. Now that's extreme....

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Chris T-T by Carl Byron Batson

I haven’t jumped on the Corbyn express: Chris T-T: Interview (Part Two)

24/08/2017

'If you sing about anything other than universal themes, you put people off'...

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Franciska Themerson

Franciska Themerson: Designing the Avant Garde

22/08/2017

Whimsical worlds: Revisiting the Avant-Garde...

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‘I hope I can turn it down.’ Chris T-T Contemplates a Quieter Life (Interview)

17/08/2017

Like holding back the tide, folk singer and reluctant activist Chris T-T struggles to adapt to a life without opinions...

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Universal Suffrage (Except for Thickies): Higher Education and Voting

09/08/2017

Greater access to higher education could have reversed EU referendum result ...

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Brexit and food

More Catastrophe! This time: Brexit and Food

18/07/2017

UK not ready for Brexit's impact on food, report warns ...

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Rencontres d'Arles

Sunflowers and Daguerreotypes: Rencontres d’Arles

17/07/2017

At the opening week of the Rencontres d’Arles international photography festival ...

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Autonomous border-surveillance

Drones, or a Big Dumb Wall? Autonomous Border-Surveillance

07/07/2017

ngineers at the University of Arizona are designing an autonomous border-surveillance system that can collect, assess and act on data in real time...

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Benedict Drew

Something Nasty Trickles Down: Benedict Drew (Whitechapel Gallery)

19/06/2017

Exploring exactly what is falling from above in the trickle-down economy...

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Slavoj Zizek and Will Self In Conversation

Slavoj Zizek and Will Self In Conversation

06/06/2017

Two of the West's most dangerous thinkers go head to pointy head...

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Alexander the Really, Really Great: How Important is Charisma in a Leader?

02/06/2017

Charismatic leaders: Too much of a good thing? ...

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Reactive, Risky, Red: Lolitics Brings Back Lefty Laughs

31/05/2017

Left turn raw topical comedy road tested for comfort...

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Newly Arrived Migrants Work Harder: Proven

30/05/2017

The received wisdom that migrant workers have a stronger 'work ethic' than UK-born workers is proven for the first time...

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Where is the Duende? Frack Language, Frack Self

22/05/2017

When we frack language, we tear apart the core of self...

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Demands will be placed on the Listener. Bitter Music (Perc)

09/05/2017

Perc's Bitter Music is stylistically labyrinthine, full of murky passages and the occasional dead end...

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teachers' resignation letters

‘With Deep Regret’ (for about ten minutes): Teachers’ Resignation Letters

19/04/2017

Teacher resignation letters paint bleak picture of US education ...

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Seignosse bunker

Look On My Works, Ye Mighty. And Grind.

19/04/2017

Buried hubris and follies of personality along southern France's Atlantikwall...

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Voudoun and the Book of The Law

07/04/2017

Sloppy thinking and lack of spiritual purpose has allowed agents of discord to invade our shared idea space...

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Whalley Range All Stars

Unexpected, Imaginative Experiences… with Whalley Range All Stars

03/04/2017

Security stopped us because we Went Too Far.... Whalley Range All Stars prove the power of theatre...

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Coldcut, U-Sound

Coldcut team with On-U Sound and Roots Manuva

31/03/2017

A spiky rallying cry for Britain’s indestructible musical melting pot....

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television

Entertainment TV and Populist Voters: The (somewhat obvious) Link

28/03/2017

People exposed to entertainment television are more likely to vote for populist politicians...

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Fight Fire with Fire: Cie Carabosse at Womadelaide (Interview)

28/03/2017

Cie Carabosse go beyond firepots and flashworks with their Exodus of Forgotten Peoples installation...

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Unseasonable Weather? Blame Liberals!

19/03/2017

Democrats and Republicans draw different conclusions when seasons are too hot or too cold ...

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