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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Mangled metal bars jut out onto the pavement, as if a wild animal had ripped open its cage. The creature responsible, however, is a mechanical beast.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Paralympics brought with them a positive change in attitudes towards disabled people, yet there is still a long way…
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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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Donnacha De Long is president of the NUJ and last week he chaired a debate on the topical Leveson inquiry…
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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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Art[icle]s | Independence Issue
Independence Issue: Could Anarchism Work in the Age of Austerity? Anarchist Book Fair 2011 Review
The sound of a brass band greeted me as I walked into Queen Mary University’s Library Square for the…
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Art[icle]s | Europe Issue
Europe Issue: Ignited Indignation – Stéphane Hessel’s Time for Outrage! Book Review
Dynamite comes in small packages and Stéphane Hessel’s book Time for Outrage! is a testament to this, delivering an…
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Art[icle]s
The Largest Frontline Club Event: Julian Assange and Slavoj Žižek Talk Hosted by Amy Goodman
Wikileaks has lost its capital and possibly its founder, yet a few months ago at the Frontline club Assange seemed…
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Art[icle]s | Europe Issue
Europe Issue: From Small Town to Big Sound – We Walk on Ice and their Unique East End Indie Sound
When We Walk on Ice start playing their captivating tight sound, it is hard to believe that only two souls are…
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Europe Issue | Features
Viewpoint – Europe: Overreaction to a right-wing Threat? A Q&A with Dan Hodges of Searchlight
Since the recession of 2008 there seems to be more than just financial issues at stake. The disillusionment with traditional…
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An exhibition about life in a Communist-era town in the former East Germany is highlighting what its organisers claim…
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Independence Issue
Viewpoint – Independence: Distortion of a Struggle – 2011 London Student Fees Protest
Streets full of noise and faces full of smiles – that was the picture that was apparent in London at…
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Features | Independence Issue
Country in Focus the Independence Issue: To Live and Dwell with Nostalgic Notions of South Africa
“The Call” was the national anthem and the voice of the orange, white and blue the colours of the oppressive regime…
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Cat-eating Haitians — how easy is it to uncover Trump’s post-truth world?
“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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