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LATEST ARTICLES ( 90 )

• These Two Games Will Stick with Me Forever: Tacoma & Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice

  

  PEOPLE used to spend their summers outdoors. But in these screen-obsessed times, we seem to be doing less of that. While this ain’t great for humanity in... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2017 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• ‘If We Stand Together, We Can Make A Difference: An Interview with Labour’s Chri...

  

  “SORRY I’m late, Ben,” the Labour Party candidate for Derby North Chris Williamson says to me as he greets me outside the train station. Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2017 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Tory MP Says We Should Stop Being ‘so Sentimental’ About Child Refugees — What...

  

  BACK in March 2017, the Tory MP for Mid-Derbyshire Pauline Latham incurred the wrath of the media when, during a House of Commons debate on Syrian refugees in... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2017 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Jobs’s Terms And Conditions Of Interminable Tedium

  

  “THE CONTRACT everyone agrees to but no-one reads.”That, apart from the gushing quotes from the likes of the Guardian, Washington Post, Time magazine and the... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2017 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Orwell: This Big Brother Simulation Is Only A Game, Isn’t It?

  

  AT THE end of March the free speech and privacy campaigning organisation Open Rights Group published an open letter to Home Secretary Amber Rudd requesting... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2017 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Migrant’s Rights Are Workers Rights Are Human Rights

  

  IN little over two weeks, the wealthiest and most heavily armed nuclear state on Earth will have an narcissistic orange billionaire misogynist with highly... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2017 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• An Interview with John Pilger

  

  THERE is a scene in George Orwell’s 1984 at a mass rally when the main character Winston Smith realises the state’s official enemy has just changed from... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2017 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Hitting the Right-wing Media Where It Hurts: An Interview with Stop Funding Hate

  

  “DRIP by drip our society is being poisoned with headlines selling hatred,” begins a video by Stop Funding Hate. “Right now the press use fear and division to... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Mankind Divided: The Wet Dream of Libertarian Capitalism

  I’VE been spending a fair amount of time recently sneaking around a dystopian near-future version of Prague.As Adam Jensen, a cyborg Interpol agent, I’ve been... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Britain’s Not Full; You’re Just Empty

  

  Britain is full!The United Kingdom is so full of radical “muslamics”, scrounging economic migrants posing as refugees, and weird ex-soviet gypsies that there... Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Labour: Guilty by Association?

  

  Is it racist for someone to say, “Chinese people are bad”?Obviously, yes of course that is racist.Not only is it completely prejudiced to believe that based onl... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Everyone Hates David Cameron and His Tory Friends

  

  Last Saturday a shit tonne of people descended on London for the People’s Assembly‘s March for Health, Homes, Jobs and Education to vent their many... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Too Poor for Our Shores

  

  “Family life is a human right, let the families in!” Gathered outside the Home Office on Thursday afternoon, a small but passionate crowd demonstrated against... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Where the Hell Has the Monkeyboy Been?

  

  Forgiveness, please!Apologies are in order.It has been far too bloody long since I last blasted my incoherent ramblings on these here webpages, and for that I a... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• You Don’t Have to Be Muslim… You Just Have to Be Human

  

  Watching the reports coming from Israel / Palestine last year was absolutely fucking horrific. By the end of the conflict the Israeli military killed around... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Gnarly Dude: A Paddleboard Lesson in Busan!

  

  I walked to the back of the shop to meet Dylan, my Korean surf guru for the day. When the general greetings were out the way, Dylan pulled out his phone,... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Save Our Human Rights Act!

  

  Today our unelected, rule-by-birthright, tax-dodging Head of State read a few pieces of paper live on TV, written for her by our millionaire, fuck-the-poor Prim... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Happy 2,578th Birthday Siddhartha Gautama (a.k.a Buddha)

  

  Buddha’s Birthday was celebrated all over East Asia yesterday. Held on the 8th day of the 4th lunar month, Buddhists attended their local temples for free... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Island Hopping in the Andaman Sea

  

  “I’m sorry. We not have record of you arrival in Thailand,” said the Bangkok immigration officer from behind her glass window. Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• UKHIP: Not Who You Think They Are

  

  Recently as I was flicking through Facebook I saw that someone had shared a link to a UKIP story. Initially I thought that this was just some idiot sharing... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL