Category Archives: Politics

A blazing star

By tim | Published: 05/11/2010

Despite the anti-popery, there’s something Bellocose about Lewes Bonfire’s combination of dark fuming and expressive zest, this farrago of black powders. Effigies of ‘Enemies of Bonfire’ – usually local officials – are paraded on pikes, but there’s also a sense of togetherness and vitality.

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Journey: final day

By tom | Published: 22/10/2010

Over the past week we’ve heard hundreds of heartbreaking stories of people doing unspeakable things to people.

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Journey: day four

By tom | Published: 19/10/2010

They don’t mind the electronically self-fucking bed, neither do they mind the condom curtain, they don’t even mind the explicit auto-porno-pose-brothel-Polaroids, but they are having a problem with the smell in THE BEDROOM

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Journey: day three

By tom | Published: 17/10/2010

Most prosecutions have to rely on victims’ statements, and barristers for the accused love to destroy vulnerable people in the dock.

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Journey: day two

By tom | Published: 15/10/2010

This final stage of the JOURNEY experience explores the faceless rhetoric governments and border agencies use to slag-off and dehumanise trafficked women. Many of the bureaucratic cultures that judge trafficked women are steeped in prejudice and prefer to think that women are playing at being prostitutes to get asylum.

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Journey: day one

By tom | Published: 14/10/2010

We are told that awareness of trafficking is good in Holland, but many people don’t know that it is happening on their doorstep. We find this all over the world and JOURNEY becomes the missing link between the perception and the reality.

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Unfinished conclusions

By tom | Published: 26/07/2010

What is this obsession with finishing things? Does life really become more manageable with beginnings, middles and ends, or is ‘finished’ just a comfort zone? The point at which any act concludes is purely subjective. We are in a perpetual state of unfinished everything.

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Writing wrongs

By tim | Published: 20/07/2010

Denouncing gobbledygook generates headlines and can be claimed as an ‘initiative’, but it requires more than words to solve a problem with words.

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Brighton rock

By tim | Published: 09/06/2010

I’ve just seen a rather startling example of what happens when the big idea behind a campaign isn’t followed through in the detail. It’s a recruitment initiative from Brighton & Hove City Council, which is hoping to attract four new ‘strategic directors’ …

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Dumb and dumber

By tom | Published: 19/05/2010

Jemima Burrill’s visceral videos and photos set in prosaic locations question the way we think about bodies, sexuality and gender. Just back from DUMB where Jemima – accompanied by gagged sympathisers – stood on a bucket and staged a protest at the lack of women in the new coalition cabinet, and in politics in general. [...]

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