In this first episode of our new podcast series New(s) Frontiers, we take a look at the UK government’s crackdown…
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Features | Headline | The Commentary
THE OVERVIEW: Election Reflections — Thoughts from an American Living in London
U.S. journalist, Danielle Maisano, who has been living in London for 11 years, shares her views on the build-up that led to the fallout of Trump winning his second term.
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“Cat-eating Haitians” – the most recent buzzworthy but baseless claim amplified by the Trump campaign, sparked hyper-salivation amongst MAGA fans, and disbelief in the rest of us.
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Features | The Commentary
THE OVERVIEW: Illegal Migration Bill highlights the tradition of xenophobia in the Tory party with echoes of racial incitement from global history
The UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s controversial Illegal Migration Bill has caused a lot of concern with protests and open letters condemning its harshness, even exposing division within the Tory Party itself.
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“He sits at his table long as a fable planning a banquet of death too sharp are his claws too aglow are his eyes Putin of the great war cry dragging his carcass of history.”
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Disturbed by the number of masks of varying types that I have seen since the pandemic when walking around London…
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The effect of the pandemic must be combatted not just through medicinal but monetary means. Benjamin Maslow who created his…
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A rare sighting of the hallowed sky octopus, the harbinger of spring.
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The March budget presented free ports as the remedy to economic uncertainty in the face of Brexit and COVID, but are…
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One year ago today, I received a work email saying that someone had tested positive for COVID, and that they…
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The new year continues with the pandemic being used by some authoritarian African leaders as a way to cling to…
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Mickey vs Donald.
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Art[icle]s | Features
An old school in Hackney and Hammond’s budget speech: surviving London’s housing crisis
The first time that the Tory Party finally mentioned the housing crisis, since the snap election, was during Hammond’s November budget. However unlike…
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For over 20 years activists within the intersex community have been calling for changes to how operations are performed on…
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No sooner had China put a ban on ICOs, Initial Coin Offerings, than the following week the FCA issued a…
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Donald Trump’s policy towards Europe is like a glaring white avalanche careering down a hill. The US is on a…
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The Commentary
Abandoned Buildings, Gold Plated Capitalism, Tarnished Silver Spoons, Queues at Food Banks and the Flying Dutchman of Left Wing Politics that Roams the High Seas of Britain Beyond Distant Waves
The room that I currently write this in will probably no longer be here in a few weeks. The building…
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Even though some Eurosceptic parties in Europe have seen an ebb within support from voters recently, the changing political landscape…
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The Commentary
Red Rose-tinted Glasses in our Leftist Island of London Engulfed by a Sea of Blue or the Longest Suicide Blog Post in History?
Putting personal political perspectives aside, I hate to say that I was right in my prediction that Ed Milliband…
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I laughed myself silly on this Telegraph piece on how people have resorted to make money or to prove the…
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It was a cold Tuesday and high above the hustle and bustle of Mare Street people reclined in couches in…
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The Commentary
Political Comparative Journalism, False Flag Operations, Putin, Georgia 2008 and Crimea 2014, Hitler, Sudetenland 1938 and Poland 1939
It was while reading the salmon coloured pages of the Financial Times that I came across an excellent piece by Tony Barber…
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Brett Bailey’s planned Barbican installation, Exhibit B has come under fire from criticisms that it is racist as it shows…
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It all started with a brown trench coat, a tuft of ginger hair and a white dog. Yep it…
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Journalist James Foley’s death highlights a bigger problem for freelancers out there desperate to put themselves in harms way to…
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Press, smut peddlers have their whole operation opened and dissected by Rich Peppiatt, former tabloid reporter, in a new…
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Daniel Ginns expresses his artistic versatility through continuous line drawings and Mark Rothko wall photos. Recent work was for…
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One of London’s last independent cinemas, the Rio in Dalston, hosted shorts by two visionary women filmmakers at a private…
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In Israel, everyone goes to the military service at the age of 18. But living in military bases before…
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International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) 2012: Four Days, Two Smartphones [Video]
Our adventures in Amsterdam documented in this video as well as an interview with Slavko Martinov director of the…
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It has been two years since the start of the uprising in Bahrain. Back then in 2011, thousands of…
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Dr Benedetta Brevini, responsible for communication in the Media Reform Coalition (MRC), a coalition consisting of 20 different organisations from the…
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Features
Writer, Lecturer and Media Reform Campaigner: Dr Benedetta Brevini on Italy, her Career and her Books
Dr Benedetta Brevini is coauthor of a book on Wikileaks and its aftermath and is writing a new one on Public…
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Alternative Issue | Features
Viewpoint – Alternative: Education that Says what it Means, the Original Free Schools
Taught by volunteers and inclusive to all, squat schools provide an alternative to Cameron’s Big Society free schools, without cost…
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Flat Earth believers have been around since biblical times and even photos of Earth taken from space have not deterred…
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London smog. In 1952 an estimated 4,000 people died as a result of severe air pollution in London. Today the…
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Alternative Issue | Art[icle]s
Alternative Issue: An Alternative to Life – Welcome Collection, Death a Self Portrait
A skeleton leans sideways on a park bench, the essence of where life once was now just bare bones remain….
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The UK is one of the richest countries in the world, but there are still massive issues of food waste…
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Alternative Issue | Art[icle]s
Alternative Issue: Old Walls come to Life with Injection of New Culture
Illegal street art has been plastered on the walls of London’s East End for many years. The formerly known working…
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Alternative Issue | Features
Alternative Issue: Recipes on walls – Gourmandizing, what are you Hungry for?
Two Americans have launched a project that uses public art to share recipes, which are painted across walls in South…
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Out of great hardship comes great art. From the heart of a Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank, a…
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Alternative Issue
Country in Focus the Alternative Issue: What do you think about the recent legal changes towards marijuana laws in the US?
Mary Stevens, 21, from North Carolina studies at City University and speaks about the recently passed changes to marijuana laws….
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Dave Ryan doesn’t just deliver mail around one of London’s toughest neighbourhoods he has spent most of his life and…
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It’s a year since Occupy London left the shadow of St Paul’s Cathedral, but many of the group are still…
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Features | Planet Issue
Planet Issue: Deaths on Britain’s Roads can put off Cyclists Despite Londons Mayor’s Encouragement
Cycle hire scheme in London “Boris Bikes”. Cycling is a great way to exercise and a form of travel environmentalists…
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Catrine Gangstø leading a Peacepainting workshop. Peacepainting is an organisation that exists to remind the adult world what it means…
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Seeing the world through Stjepan Sedlar’s eyes requires a lot of patience and having no fear of the dark. His parents…
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In the last two decades, the dive tourism industry has exploded into a global giant and has become a welcome…
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Bulgarian newspapers. Bulgaria has the lowest level of press freedom of any European country according to this year’s Reporters Without…
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Alternative Issue | Features
Alternative Issue: Burkina Faso’s Paralympians Pave Way for Equal Rights
When Burkina Faso’s Paralympic team arrived in London with nowhere to stay, nowhere to train and not enough money to…
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Alternative Issue | Features
Alternative Issue: Islamic Finance Investments on the Rise, but are there any Jobs?
Investments in Islamic finance are increasing at a rapid rate globally. According to Ernst and Young global Islamic banking assets…
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As immigration and tourism soars in Bali, locals are clamping down more than ever to preserve their unique Hindu culture…
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In 2010 plans for a third runway at Heathrow airport was dropped by the new coalition government. Now, in response…
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A new campaign will try and make squatting completely illegal. In September 2012, squatting in a residential location, the act…
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Art[icle]s
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) 2012: Russian Dissent Expressed through Art Picks up Pace
Voina, a Russian artivist collective specalising in provocative street art against state control, has released a documentary which recently…
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Ben Goldacre, medical doctor and Guardian journalist is the father of Bad Science a collection of books, hundreds of…
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Art[icle]s
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) 2012: Propaganda North Korean Style
Propaganda is a documentary purported to have been made in North Korea with images of decadent western lifestyle, capitalist…
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Ruggero Galtarossa is from a small city in Northern Italy called Padova. He is 22 years old he has…
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Moorfields Eye Hospital shows the world’s only collection of art for the blind. The unique exhibition consists of more…
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Features | Sex Issue
Country in Focus the Sex Issue: Palestine, the West and a Little Thing Called Sex
Bahaa Milhem, a 3rd year journalism student at City University, talks about the difference in culture when it comes to…
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Features | Sex Issue
“Oi miss! Nice butt!”: Why is street sexual harassment so widespread and what can we do to stop it?
“I was doing my shopping in the beauty aisle in Sainsbury’s,” Liz*, an undergrad student at City University recalls,…
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The Paralympics brought with them a positive change in attitudes towards disabled people, yet there is still a long way…
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In the 80s the artists group Guerrilla Girls scattered New York with posters claiming that only 5 per cent…
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Most people have some idea of what an addiction is, but sex doesn’t seem to be one that first comes…
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A senior Muslim cleric from the UK was threatened with arrest by an extremist in Saudi Arabia last month….
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Before instruments there was nature, and Ebe Oke is an artist who lets certain elements of this world resound through his…
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A study by Harvard University released this month reveals that China’s Internet Censor’s new focus is on topics…
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The old tale of Huckleberry Finn will be released as a new film next year but the best-loved story…
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Censorship Issue | Features
Viewpoint – Censorship: When Silence is the Price for Truth…Journalism in DRC
Reporters Without Borders stated that a journalist from Radio Liberté and two journalists from Kisangani News were released from…
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Nobody knows what they are. Or where they came from. I’m feeling strangely calm. I guess people who have just…
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Occupy Hong Kong has secured itself a most ironic location, inside the Asia headquarters of HSCB. While the bank has…
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According to Eric Wishart, Agence France-Presse Asia region chief, China is a still a difficult country to work in, but…
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Art[icle]s | Censorship Issue
Censorship Issue: Freedom of Expression Through Photography – Voices of the other half at the Rossi & Rossi Gallery
What does it mean to be a young woman in Iran? The Omid Foundation explores this question through enabling disadvantaged…
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Ric O’Barry, known from the documentary “The Cove”, recognises the film has done a lot of good, yet publicity…
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Donnacha De Long is president of the NUJ and last week he chaired a debate on the topical Leveson inquiry…
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On Sunday the first of April 2012 Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy will for the first time…
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Art[icle]s | Censorship Issue
Censorship Issue: Pop Art from Palestine – Laila Shawa The Other Side of Paradise Exhibition
Headless, armless and feetless mannequins, painted in bold colours and adorned with gem stones and colourful paintings inspired by…
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Censorship Issue | Features
Country in Focus the Censorship Issue: Syria One Year on…. Has Any Solution Really Come of it?
March 15 marked the one year anniversary of the Syrian uprising against President Bashar al Assad’s regime, which has shown…
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Censorship Issue | Features
Viewpoint – Censorship: The Long Walk to Freedom into a Cul-de-sac? The South African ‘secrecy bill’
An information bill that is being debated in the next few months in South Africa could put democracy to…
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“People’s aspirations has galvanised a yearning for democracy” says CK Lau, lecturer at Hong Kong Baptist University and Vice-Chairman of…
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It was a busy leap year for Mr François Hollande, the frontrunner in the French presidential elections. For someone who…
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Britain’s Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg popped by the renowned Institute of Political Studies (“Sciences Po” for the French-speaking) in…
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In January 2012, a small organisation called Allt åt Alla (Everything for Everyone), organised an event to highlight the issues…
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US Elections: This Time it’s Different!
This time there was no march of the pink pussy hats that descended on Washington in the inaugural aftermath to…
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