March 2012
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Yeah, disco →
What? You can click on a #disco tag and hear music like this now? What is happening. Is this the new disco?
IS DISCO BACK NOW? I did not see that coming, but I must say, it’s lovely.
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Redheadphone
— Out of my head
… AKA the very...
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“With our masks on, we look like the bodies of soldiers with the faces of robotic...”
– ‘The sound of all girls screaming’
A short story by Shani Boianjiu, in Vice
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Heaven 17
— Sunset now
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“I’ve long been intrigued by the idea of the past as a fantasy world: a...”
– Lloyd Shepherd, author of The English Monster, on his top 10 books that focus ‘on this central idea – that history is a fantasy which can be reestablished by the author – and takes it in all sorts of directions.’
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Super Morrissey Bros.
I’ll have to stop...
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Zoot Woman
— Woman wonder
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Marie Colvin's final dispatch from Homs, the...
Below are the first few paras of the last report filed by the journalist Marie Colvin before she was killed on 22 February 2012. She was reporting from inside the besieged Syrian enclave of Baba Amr in the city of Homs, and died when the building she was working from, an unofficial media centre, was bombarded by the Syrian army.
‘Colvin, who had lost an eye to shrapnel in Sri Lanka and had...
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“Tell the truth. Day and night. That’s all you have to do. Do your best and...”
– Gilbert & George, interviewed by Chris Waywell in Time Out London.
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The Smiths
— Rubber ring
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Super Furry Animals
— Play it cool
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Jóvenes y Sexys
— Divine Hammer
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A burst of gunfire forced us to hide in the scrub.... →
El Mundo journalist Javier Espinosa’s escape from Homs
‘Fifty or more of us – many disabled by their wounds – were trying to break out of the besieged neighbourhood of Baba Amr, in Homs, fleeing the final attack unleashed by the Syrian regime.’
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Workfare in context →
This week has seen a huge furore over the Government’s “workfare” scheme, whereby unemployed people, and those on disability benefits, can be forced to work for 30 hours a week. If they refuse, they can have their benefits removed for a period of three months. Amidst the uproar, I thought it might be worthwhile to detail some of the other work- and benefit-related policies that currently exist...
