Entries Tagged as 'politics'

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

All Charges Dropped Against Space Hijackers

Crown Prosecution Service drops all charges against 11 Space Hijackers for impersonating police officers.
Elated. Over the moon. Downing a stiff gin to celebrate. But shaking with anger at the drama I and my friends have had to endure over the past ten months. Many of us have suffered throughout this ordeal, a farcical attempt by [...]

Monday, January 18th, 2010

Dirty White Gold – The Film

I’m making a film. A virginal effort. I wrote an article for Who’s Jack last autumn. I was then invited on a press trip to India with Pants to Poverty. At this time, I was at the Frontline Club on a course with documentary Claire Lewis. I told her about the trip and she shoved [...]

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Stop, Search, Succumb

The Home Office is to appeal a European Court of Human Rights decision stating that the use of Section 44 (Terrorism Act 2000) to stop and search individuals violates the right to respect for a private life guaranteed by Article 8 of the Convention on Human Rights.
Section 44 has long drawn criticism from protestors who [...]

Friday, December 11th, 2009

Copenhagen, Cop Off….

Environmental pressure groups have abandoned their moral integrity by clubbing together with arms manufacturers and corporate energy giants. So why should you go to Copenhagen?
Over 50,000 members of the “I Only Fly to India” militia will descend on Copenhagen over the next week to demonstrate over a shopping list of demands longer than J-Lo’s rider. [...]

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

Baboon vs Badger

Who would win in a fight between a baboon and a badger?
A question posed to the leader of the opposition, David Cameron, by the Brighton Argus.
He dodged the question then…but others are more forthcoming.
Among those who chose to tackle this Copernican question are: Stephen Fry, Adz from 5ive, Jon Snow, the cast of Skins, Noam [...]

Monday, November 16th, 2009

This Is Not a Photomontage

In the background, the Sheraton Hotel. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The poshest place in town…possibly in the country. Owned by the richest man in the country who’s half Ethiopian and half Yemeni. He’s also one of the richest men in Saudi Arabia…more wonga than the entire Bin Laden family. He reckons he can throw billions into [...]

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

Travels and Travails

Have just come back from India filming my first ever documentary (by filming, I mean shooting, producing, directing, presenting, editing, everything myself) on suicides, pesticides and fashion. Working title “Deadly White Gold”… same as the article I wrote for Who’s Jack this September.
At its height, up to 26 Indian cotton farmers a day were drinking [...]

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

G20 vs 34C

Despite the fact that photographs from the first day of the G20 protests in April 2009 show me astride an armoured personnel carrier in black bra and blue boiler suit with another woman straddling me in red stockings and lipstick heels, the Crown Prosecution Service has charged me and 10 others with impersonating police officers. [...]

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

Kindred Times and Future Goodbyes

A few weeks ago, I went to an abandoned shell of a building in Tel Aviv to cover a show called “Kindred Times and Future Goodbyes” for Juxtapoz Magazine.
It was put on by arguably the best artists in that town’s street art scene – Know Hope, Klone, Zero Cents, and Foma.
Know Hope put me [...]

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

Deadly White Gold

When you’ve got a bargain, do you think about who’s paid for it?
When I buy underwear, I ask myself “is the cotton used to make this organic cotton?” If it isn’t organic, I follow up with a series of sub-questions tripping around “what permanently debilitating condition does the farmer who grew this have?” and [...]