Tag Archives: Politics

Southbank Centre celebrates the Festival of Britain

By tom | Published: 10/05/2011

The English language is a mixed-up, muddled-up, shook-up wonder and the great leveller we all have in common.

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The Mindless Menace of Violence

By tim | Published: 11/01/2011

What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created?

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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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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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I, Claud, and that damn worm

By tim | Published: 05/05/2010

Along with the incision of his analyses into hubris, oppression, corruption and war, ‘I, Claud’ is sustained by an inspiring belief in our desire and ability to change the world for the better. Whether you lean his ideological way or not, you might find his optimism refreshing.

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26:50 — Free to write

By tim | Published: 14/04/2010

26:50 is a remarkable creative partnership between two organisations – the writers’ group 26 and International PEN – marking 50 years of the International PEN Writers in Prison committee. Fifty UK-based writers (all members of 26) were given 50 words to write about one of Pen’s emblematic cases – authors who have been persecuted for their words [...]

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Ghosts of Spain

By tom | Published: 12/04/2010

A series of physical and metaphysical journeys to exhume the ghosts that make Spain such an evocative experience.

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