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Meet the Merseysiders Who Are Waging War On the Bedroom Tax
One afternoon towards the end of July, a man in a Runcorn benefit office declared himself to be “sick of this shit” before cutting his own throat in front of council staff. His self-administered...
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The US Government Wants the Media to Stop Covering Barrett Brown
Image via Nikki Loehr Barrett Brown has been sitting in prison, without trial, for almost a year. In case you haven’t followed his case, the 31-year-old journalist is facing a century of prison time...
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Reading 'Born Again' in Jail
I’ve spent the last year or so in a federal lock-up awaiting trial on charges that have been duly analysed elsewhere. Long story short: I’m facing decades in prison. This is inconvenient in some...
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Pretty Girl Bullshit: Penelope Cruz Is Helping Agent Provocateur Sell You Lies
Hi I'm Bertie, this column is basically a place for me to call bullshit on girl related things I think are stupid. The high street might be dying but it'll always be a strange place. In fact, some of...
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I'm a Russian Lesbian Pretending to Be Straight to Avoid Persecution
When I came out to my Russian mother, she shook her head and attempted to ignore my homosexuality for nearly a year. In June, before I left for Toronto's Pride Parade with my girlfriend, she told me...
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'The Place Women Go to Get Raped'
All Photos By: David Degner, Just off Tahrir Square, Mohammed Mahmoud Street is where Yasmine El Baramawy was beaten and raped. I t was almost 11 PM on Friday, November 23, 2012, when from the window...
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Question of the Day: What's the Worst Thing You've Ever Been Caught Doing?
Two British girls (looking understandably bewildered above) have been caught trying to smuggle £1.5 million of cocaine out of Peru in food products. Being caught doing something with the inevitable...
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When Are We Going to Finally Colonise Space?
Image courtesy of ESO/L. Calçada The Earth is doomed, and the only question is how long humanity has left. Fortunately, we have options: in the past few years there’s been a flurry of potentially...
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Searching for Scrap Metal Is More Fun Than the Jobcentre
Shane, my friendly local scrap metal collector. When you forget about the people whose commutes are ruined by the theft of copper wires from train tracks, scrap metal collecting seems almost romantic....
View ArticleShorties: How to Make Faeces Wine - Trailer
Select "English subtitles" in the rare event that you don't speak Korean. "Ttongsul" is a Korean rice wine mixed with the fermented turd of a human child and has an alcoholic content of around 9...
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North Korea's First Smartphone Probably isn't Connected to the Internet
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We Need to Talk About London's Club Drug Problem
(Photo by Chris Bethell) Dr Owen Bowden-Jones is the founder of the Club Drug Clinic, an NHS service at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London. After being overwhelmed with ketamine, cocaine,...
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A Few Impressions: Psycho, Psycho, Psycho
Image by Courtney Nicholas What’s in an adaptation? What’s in a remake? How does the transference of material from life into art differ from the transference of material from one piece of art into...
View ArticleBad Cop Blotter: Eric Holder Speaks Out Against Mandatory Minimums, Gives Us...
Eric Holder, who announced a helpful policy on Monday. Photo via After over 1,600 days in office, one rhetorical but unreal end to the war on drugs, and scores of state-law-violating, promise-breaking...
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These Nonviolent Female Prisoners Have Been Rotting in Prison for the Last...
All images courtesy of Last Gasp A few weeks ago, I found a book at a thrift store called The Tallahassee Project. It's a collection of photos of nonviolent female federal inmates who were...
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The Creators Project: 'This Must Be the Only Fantasy' by Rodarte and Todd Cole
Magical realism, 1980s video games, and haute couture come together in This Must Be the Only Fantasy, a new film collaboration between fashion house Rodarte and filmmaker Todd Cole, produced by The...
View ArticleBudapest Is a Trendy Loser
Ív and Candie are two Hungarian photographers. I've never met them but I've been exchanging emails with them for almost a year now, ever since they sent me this amazing set of photos from their...
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Gavin Haynes' Sleepless Nights: A Depressing Guide to the Classic British...
I sense Michaella McCollum Connolly may regret deciding to wear a T-shirt emblazoned with the words "La Vie Est Belle" as she headed towards the departures hall of Lima airport. It is very important,...
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