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Bitcoin – A digital tax rebellion through technology?
on August 3, 2011 by admin in Article, Opinion, Comments (1)
If you could avoid paying tax, would you? Be honest. Few people complain when they see their money being spent wisely. But when they see it going down the chute […]
Notes from the gym
on July 21, 2011 by admin in Article, Zeitgeist, Comments (0)
I can honestly say that joining the gym was the best decision I ever made. Ever since that day, my life’s been on the up and up. You know how […]
Hollywood’s love affair with Philip K Dick
on June 28, 2011 by admin in Article, Books, Opinion, Comments (0)
Was it his prolific, speed-induced output, or the craziness of his ideas? Or was it because at heart Dick was a moralist. Either way, Hollywood loves him. Why?
Why The Burlesque Show is over
on November 29, 2010 by admin in Article, Opinion, Zeitgeist, Comments (26)
Well, folks, the inevitable has finally happened: the Neo-Burlesque Movement is now fully mainstream. This initially underground movement started in the early 1990’s with the founding of Dixie Evans’ […]
Imperial Bedrooms – a review.
on July 7, 2010 by admin in Article, Books, Comments (0)
Imperial Bedrooms – Bret Easton Ellis Everyone’s trying to out-Ellis Ellis. So what does Ellis do? He tries to out-Ells himself. That’s the result of Imperial Bedrooms, a curious novel […]
Why David Laws Must Stay
on May 29, 2010 by admin in Article, Opinion, Comments (0)
David Laws, now at the Treasury, has been caught with his hand in the cookie jar. Specifically, paying rent out of his expenses to his gay lover for a room […]
The Apple iPad is the Suckiest Hyped-Up Product in History
on April 8, 2010 by admin in Article, Opinion, Review, Zeitgeist, Comments (4)
So the iPad’s here, is it? Well the iPad can fuck right off. Let’s get the obvious shit out of the way with first. It’s a giant iPhone. It doesn’t […]
Smoke Stacks to Apple Macs – the Kinetica Art Fair
on February 9, 2010 by Jimmy in Art, Article, Opinion, Comments (0)
Zizek has summarised Marx as having said that the invention of steam engine has caused more social change than any revolution ever would. Marx himself doesn’t seem to have provided […]
A Barbed Blade for Apathy? – Nick Griffin’s Pedestal
on October 23, 2009 by ed in Article, Comments (1)
Public debate is de rigueur at London’s monthly Intelligence Squared debates which take place in the theatre of the Royal Geographical Society. There, most recently Anne Widdecombe and a Nigerian […]
Scenes from Village Life
on September 10, 2009 by admin in Article, Comments (0)
I spent most of today washing my car. To put that into context, I don’t think I’ve washed my car since I came here. That was about six months ago, […]