Placebo
A book belonging to Alexander Smoakes was open on the table, and he was staring at a word he didn’t know. Smoakes became angry, the seeping kind. He did not feel himself getting angry, but became it, because this was the kind of seeping anger you cannot notice in yourself at all. It bit at [&h
Long Distance Call
Long-distance call The light is long and low and static in the Irish sky, forming Atlantic currents of memory that catch the cross-country coach, that send it swimming in the self-bound surf. Your call breaks the electric silence of childhood, of waiting, of adolescence like a premature tidal jump,
Weekly Roundup: Voting Apps, Katie Hill and California Fires
Tactical voting apps cause concern on both sides of the political divide As the country gears up for a December general election, voters on both sides of the Brexit divide have been turning to tactical voting to find away through the deadlock on EU membership. Perceived by some as a ‘second refere
The Politics of Urban Music
Taken from Teardrops: [Darcus Howe]: We have complained to the police about police and nothing’s been done, we have complained to judges about judges and nothing’s been done. Now it is time to do something ourselves. [Chorus] In love and war All is fair where I’m from The weak won&
Good Fortune
Good fortune, that he was passing. Warm, clear joy In pale gold Like a splash of sunlight On a tiled floor. Ask for exactness. Ask for words by art to enact, thus: His warm palm laid Between my shoulder-blades.∎ Words by Hannah Patrick.
WEEKLY ROUNDUP: BOLIVIA, DA VINCI AND PRINCE ANDREW
Channel 4 airs fresh revelations in ‘The Prince and the Paedophile’ This week, stirrings around Prince Andrew’s involvement with paedophile tycoon Jeffrey Epstein have been revived by an episode of ‘Dispatches’, presented by Cathy Newman and shown by Channel 4. A deeply uncomforta
“I get a constant deluge of death threats”
Robert Mugabe was still alive when I spoke to Peter Tatchell back in late August. We had spoken about the former Zimbabwean President during our conversation, specifically Tatchell’s two attempts at placing Mugabe under citizen’s arrest, first in London in 1999, and again in Brussels in 2001. Af
Reconciling URL and IRL Feminism
I first became acquainted with Miranda July through her fiction. My friend, Scarlet, recommended her critically acclaimed novel, The First Bad Man, which I have since lent to my mother, boyfriend, and best friend. July’s novel is a story of humorous eroticism, habitual patterns, and the search for
WEEKLY ROUNDUP: EXTINCTION REBELLION, RACISM IN FOOTBALL AND BERNIE IS BACK
Extinction Rebellion Takes Legal Action on Protest Ban in London Since International Rebellion’s coordinated protests have swept through more than sixty cities around the world, thousands of environmental activists have been arrested in their efforts to demand for more action on climate chan