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 [...]

Friday, March 19th, 2010

Dr D: UKIP Me Hanging On

Dr D’s swipe at this year’s election campaign continues unabated. This time it’s on a billboard at the M4/A312 junction in London.
Of his latest stick ‘em up he’s said: “I never thought I could cram in a reference to WWII graffiti, a has-been chat show host and a suspect political party on one board [...]

Sunday, March 14th, 2010

The Great COP15 Can-Can

Artists and activists will gather in the saunic sweat of Dalston’s Cafe Oto this Friday to revive “Cafe Carbon“, a musical devised by The Gluts for the COP15 demonstrations this past winter in Copenhagen.
The Gluts are Gina Birch, Kaffe Matthews and Hayley Newman. Gina’s a founding member of The Raincoats, I once lay in Kaffe’s [...]

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. [...]