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Ctrl Meets Bashy

Ashley Thomas aka 23-year old grime star Bashy, is making movements and hitting music headlines. With a mass underground fan base building with love for his first two mixtapes 'Ur Mum Volume One' and 'The Chupa Chups Mixtape - Assorted Flavours' (all before releasing his debut album this June) - get ready, get set, for an era of the bish, bash,...

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Ctrl Meets Bashy

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Vox Pops: A-bomb-ination

Oh here we go again. Are we about to see another media frenzy of having 'Weapons of Mass Destruction' (WMD) plastered all over our front pages? It seems likely, except this is a far cry from Bush's subliminal messaging – the latest rumbles in the world are coming from North Korea's recent underground nuclear missile testing.

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Feature: Tamils' Occupation of Parliament Square Part Four

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Blog: Russell Myrie - North Korea

Did George Bush, or at the very least, his speechwriters, get one thing right? Were the neo-cons right when they labelled North Korea ‘evil’? Even if they were, did they get it so disasterously wrong about Iraq, and handle all things Iran so badly, that the other 'evil' country was allowed to slip under the radar for a hot minute?

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Ctrl.Alt.Shift @ Rock Around The Blockade Meeting

On Wednesday 20th May, an upstairs room at LSE was packed to hear from the brigadistas - six young people who had travelled to revolutionary Cuba on a trip organsied by Rock Around The Blockade, an organisation working in solidarity with Cuba and to dispel some of the myths surrounding life in a socialist society. For all but one of the...

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Ctrl.Alt.Shift @ March Against Police Violence

Ever since the now infamous G20 protests, and the tragic death of Ian Tomlinson, a storm of discontent has been brewing under a coppers kettle. But it is clear that violence at the hands of the Metropolitan Police is far from a new phenomenon, so Against Police Violence was formed to confront the issue directly.

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Ctrl.Alt.Shift @ Sack Parliament!

Those G20 Meltdown guys are at it again! With the bankers shown up for the criminals they are, the government were the next target...

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Blog: Bibi Van Der Zee - Heroes

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Feature: Nigeria's Forgotten Children

So you come home late from a night out with your friends, or you bunk off college, and you might get a swift talking to. If you're really unlucky you might get grounded. Yet in some parts of Nigeria young people who disobey their parents are being accused of witchcraft where the punishment is their life.

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