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art \ Author: Chiraz Aich \ Author: Esther Carrera \ Review \ V &A
Disobedient Objects, an Archeology of the people’s struggles
by Esther Carrera (words). and Chiraz Aich (pictures) It is the first week of January, and its back-to-work, back to reality. And, we may wonder if there is any good news? Well, there is. Till the end of the month an unusual but necessary exhibition is taking place in the V & A Museum, which I would […]
Author: Jim Jepps \ Emily Thornberry \ Islington \ Labour
Every Labour Rose has it’s Thornberry: Islington MP told to get on her bike
by Jim Jepps Prepare yourself for the most outrageous, offensive tweet in human history. Ed Miliband said this tweet made him angrier than at any time during his leadership – angrier than over the privatisation of the Post Office, angrier than when the Daily Mail slated his dead father, angrier than everything that’s happened to […]
Author: Benali Hamdache \ immigration
Let’s tell MPs that immigrants are welcome here
by Benali Hamdache I alongside many thousands of others regularly complete YouGov quizzes in the vain hope of eventually accruing enough points to earn £50. In pursuit of that rather remote goal I regularly complete the weekly YouGov poll that tries to assess the political climate. One of the weekly questions asked was what the […]
Author: Jen Izaakson \ Film \ Review
Review: Nightcrawler, a fantastic rendering of capitalism
by Jen Izaakson The Nightcrawler works as a contemporary insight into working conditions in the post-economic crisis West, one still reeling from the 2008 crash. Lou Bloom (Jake Gyellenhaal) relentlessly embodies all that is alienating about contemporary life. Lou casts a hollowed out figure onscreen, representing different positions within capitalist employment, shifting from lumpen criminal, […]
Author: Louis Bayman \ Book review \ Books \ Fascists \ History \ immigration \ Refugees \ Review
Book review: Beaten But Not Deafeated
Book Review of Beaten but not Defeated: Siegfried Moos – A German Anti-Nazi who Settled in Britain by Merilyn Moos. Chronos Books, Winchester 2014. £17.99 by Louis Bayman You might be forgiven for asking, who was Siegfried Moos? There is little reason for fame to accrue to an academic at the Oxford Institute of Statistics […]
Author: Jim Jepps \ David Cameron \ Ed Miliband \ Fawcett Society \ feminism \ Nick Clegg
The rise of T-Shirt feminism?
by Jim Jepps David Cameron refused to pose wearing the Fawcett Society T-Shirt “This is what a feminist looks like”. It’s an existential poser to ask whether someone who’s obviously not a feminist can be less of a feminist. It’s not exactly news that the leader of the Conservative Party is more Margaret Thatcher than […]
Author: Istanbul Feminist Kollectiv \ conference \ feminism \ Turkish
Turkish Feminists on why they’re coming to speak in London
from the Istanbul Feminist Kollectiv There will be a session this year in Feminism in London Conference named Fighting Against Patriarchy in Turkey – with the Istanbul Feminist Kolectiv. We, as feminists from Istanbul, are attending the Conference this year on October, 25. Why are we coming to London and what kind of an organization […]
Mental health support has been slashed and trashed, and it will take more than Clegg’s pittance to fix that
Written by Charlie Smoke. Today is World Mental Health Day. This week, Nick Clegg announced a £120 million increase in funding for mental health care in a package that includes the implementation of targets. In a move described as ‘highly unusual’, the policy was at the heart of Clegg’s conference speech, and will feature among […]
Author: Jim Jepps \ immigration \ London Independence \ Scottish Independence
After Scotland: Is it time for London independence?
by Jim Jepps “If the Scots want to show some solidarity with the people in England who feel trapped in a centralised state where cheap credit, privatisation and deregulation are the only solutions offered, they should vote yes to independence and set us all free.” Billy Bragg Adam Ramsay pointed out that “In Scotland, […]
art \ Author: Louis Bayman \ Camden \ Camden Market \ grafitti \ The Real Art of Protest
Exploring Camden Market’s Street Art
Louis Bayman takes a guided tour of some of Camden’s street art. “It was activism that got me here. Too much of entertainment is a factory world. I attended protests and started to see placards as a willfully ignored form of art.” It’s easy to walk past images. They stare at us from every shopfront, […]
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