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OK, so this is a month or so late in coming, but I was sat on the top deck of the bus the other morning, and just across from me sat a bloke I’m assuming was a pretty far gone alcoholic, drinking some kind of super-strength lager from the can.
Now, just in case you don’t […]

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C’mon, joke’s over, Boris didn’t really win, did he?
Oh shit, yes he did. A victory for disillusionment, celebrity and the power of the protest vote. He’s not even a convincing tory.
The animosity towards Ken is startling, and he’s largely brought it on himself of late by behaving as though he was born to rule. His […]

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It’s the London Mayoral Elections tomorrow, and our chance to choose between the different flavours of turd on offer… As much as I think Ken has overstayed his welcome, the idea of Boris as London mayor is too horrific to consider. Not because of his affable buffoonery, but because of his horribly reactionary politics. He’s […]

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Someone’s got to say it, so on behalf of the various campaign groups concerned with ending the Chinese occupation of and brutality in Tibet (none of which I officially represent or am a member of), I’d like to thank Gordon Brown for a day of phenomenal free world-wide publicity, at the expense of the reputations […]

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Christian Payne is a photographer and photo-journalist who went to Jordan, supported by the UNHCR, to tell the stories of the Iraqi refugees there. Powerful stuff.

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OK, a little backstory - the marvel that is Billy Bragg wrote a piece for the New York Times last week about how social networks are ripping off artists, and we deserve a piece of the cash when they sell for hundreds of millions.
Billy’s logic is fine, it’s just a little out of date, and […]

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Had a lovely morning giving a lecture/masterclass at the ACM today. It was extra-fun because I was given a topic I hadn’t spoken on before, but was given it at too short notice to have time to prepare so I had to wing it. And it went great, at least from where I was stood […]

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I heard a discussion on Radio London this morning about role models. A term came up that I’d not heard before as an alternative - ‘Goal-models’ - people who aren’t neccesarily who you want to be, but may have achieved something you wish you’d achieved, or are planning to achieve….
The whole notion of role-modeling is […]

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Tomorrow is Buy Nothing Day - an annual institution instigated by AdBusters as a day to buy nothing and think about over-consumption - in a similar vein to No Music Day.
So go on, Buy nothing tomorrow (or on Saturday if you’re not in the US, or be radical and have two days of buying nothing…)

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One of the big problems for artists distributing music (for free or profit) online is that copyright laws are different the world over. That’s why there are Russian websites selling very cheap downloads of ‘illegally’ ripped CDs. There’s very little law enforcement in most of the former soviet union, and if a site is hosted […]

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