Content warning: this article contains discussions around violence, sexual assault and rape, suicide, and extreme misogyny that some readers may find distressing ‘Is rape actually traumatic for a female?’ What a fucking question to start my morning with. The single, jaw-dropping question, ...
Newcastle city centre felt like the theatre of the absurd on Saturday, 1 November. On the chilly early afternoon in front of the New Bridge Hotel, the familiar characters from the far right trudged onto the stage. While the mainstream media would likely gloss over it as just another clash ...
Sainsbury’s has started using facial recognition in two of its stores, apparently to “crack down on shoplifting.” But let’s call the new machines that have been installed in one store apiece in Bath and London exactly what they are: the eye of Big Brother. A Live Facial Recognition (LFR) c...
The central hall in the Dolphin in Darlington wasn’t just a venue on Friday evening, it was an anomaly. In this tiny, post-industrial town in the north, the population has been lost for a long time, reeling from the fall of the ‘Red Wall,’ and desperate for change. Years of lack of funding...
Before I start this article, I would like to preface that I had never even been to Hulme before, let alone to The World Transformed, and I went in thinking it would be the same as many Labour-supportive events I’ve attended before. Being the first year the festival had split its affiliatio...
I feel like it’s important, you know? I work in radio and it’s shit like this that we don’t cover. We’re not allowed to. Did you know there’s 80 sharia law courts in the UK and we can’t do fuck all about them? I’d risking my job just being here. Smiling at the group of...