Entries Tagged as 'politics'

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

Anti-terror Stop and Search Powers To Be Scrapped

Home Secretary Theresa May is to halt searches of individuals without reasonable suspicion after the European Court of Human Rights rules the power unlawful.

The controversial use of Section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 is to be scrapped immediately, Home Secretary Theresa May has said.
In a speech to the House of [...]

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

Questions Bloody Questions

The problem with filling out so many application forms for funding, placements, new livers… are the questions you have to answer. How does one eke out money for old rope – or worse, how do you feign insightful replies in approximately 200 words?
Here are a couple questions I’ve had to answer recently…along with the answers.
Which [...]

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

Wanna Buy a Tank?

For Sale. One Space Hijackers Tank. Last seen 01 April 2009 – at London’s G20 demonstrations – steaming down Bishopsgate with Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries blaring from its soundsystem. 11 careful owners all registered on the DNA database. Many of us popped our arrest cherry that day.

Our mobile oppression [...]

Friday, May 28th, 2010

sTate Modern: Tate Makes Surveillance An Art Form

A new show called Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera opens at Tate Modern this week. It features images made surreptitiously or without the explicit permission of the subject. It is the history of spying with a lens in just over 250 photographs.
But there’s an elephant in the museum. As [...]

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

The Ad the FT Refused to Print

Why? Libel. Apparently.
Instead of redrafting the Amnesty International press release and passing the words off as my own [really? that happens in the press?], here’s a link to the press release.

UPDATE: The ad is causing a bit of a stir in the FT newsroom. Emails are circulating amongst staffers, freelancers and management. In pre-Twitter [...]

Monday, May 17th, 2010

It’s SHell Out There

Amnesty Intenational are launching a new film ahead of Shell’s AGM in London tomorrow. It’s about Shell’s human rights abuses in the Niger Delta, highlighting the issue of gas flaring. They will also be driving around the City and Barbican with some billboard advertising on their campaign.
Gas flaring contributes to just over 1% of the [...]

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

Haiti: Nadije’s Letter

A 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti on 12 January at 1653 local time, killing over 230,000 – more than the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami – and left over 1 million people homeless. This and a series of aftershocks saw schools, homes and hospitals destroyed in areas near the capital, Port au Prince. The UN headquarters, [...]

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

Leaders Debate Drinking Game

Got this from a mate today.
I don’t think I’m that thirsty….

A drinking game to play during the televised debates between Brown, Cameron and Clegg, on April 15th (ITV), April 22nd (Sky) & April 29th (BBC).
Here are the rules:
1) At the start of the game each player must pick a leader to support. [...]

Sunday, April 18th, 2010

Life Imitates Art

This weekend, Mutate Britain asked kennardphillipps to revamp one of their more recent works Fucking Waste of Money for their Robin Hood Tax event at London’s Cordy House.
Fucking Waste of Money looks a bit like this:

They erected the picture on Thursday – the same day my erstwhile companjero, Sky News’ Niall Paterson, took these photos [...]

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

Smellie’s Acquittal Stinks

Metropolitan Police Sergeant Delroy Smellie was cleared of assaulting protestor Nicola Fisher at the memorial to Ian Tomlinson’s killing at last year’s G20 Demonstrations. District Judge Daphne Wickham ruled he acted lawfully despite video evidence posted on the internet showing Smellie thrashing a woman half his size with the back of his hand [...]