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Ctrl.Alt.Shift @ Ghana's 52nd Independence Celebration

On Saturday, Ctrl.Alt.Shift ventured over to Wembley's Banqueting Suite to celebrate the 52nd Celebration of Ghanaian Independence. With Eddie Kadi, Richard Blackwood, and Mobo winning saxophonist YolanDa Brown on the guest list, it was always going to be a big party, that's even without mentioning the headliner himself Sway Dasafo.

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Feature: G20 Meltdown

What's the best way to show your anger about the misery and destruction that our culture of war and consumption has created? Sound off about it in the pub? Abstain from voting, as it only encourages politicians anyway? No? Well how about bringing about a zombie apocalypse in central London and then feasting on the still-warm brains of the very...

Submitted by Kevin E.G. Perry

Young Blood: Freedom of Speech

On 12th February 2009, Dutch MP Geert Wilders was banned from entering the UK. He is the man behind a film, Fitna, which compares the Koran (in Wilders' a view, a 'fascist book') to Mein Kamp, and juxtaposes images of the text with those of 9/11 and the Madrid and London bombings. Wilders' response was to denounce the decision as 'cowardly', fly...

Submitted by Jody.McIntyre

Young Blood: We Are the Age of Stupid

Meeting your mates in the wrong place for a film - stupid. Not getting to the cinema early enough to get the best seat in the cinema (we all have a favourite) - stupid. Not going to the toilet before the film - very stupid, but it was fitting for the film I was going to see - The Age of Stupid. No, not a Jackass style film but instead an...

Submitted by Hannah.Martin

Ctrl.Alt.Shift @ 50 Million Missing Women

When the feds stopped me and my mate before even reaching London's Guildhall, I was thinking damn! Things are really going to get crazy today...

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Ctrl.Alt.Shift @ Pavement Peacocks Art Showcase

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Blog: Russell Myrie - Brobama

'Gordon Brown travels to United States for summit with President Obama' ran the tagline on News 24 throughout Monday evening. Still can't quite get used to that Pesident Obama. But that's what you call a high class problem.

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Feature: Playing Fair?

Watching the advertisement for Fair and Lovely skin cream makes for uncomfortable viewing. The successful fair skinned lady at one points states, in relation to obtaining her dream job, that, "one of the biggest obstacles of obtaining my dream was my skin" more than suggesting, I’d say, that being ‘fair and lovely’...

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Young Blood: The Student Activist

What does the whine of the apathetic student sound like? "Do we really care? A talk on what? Yeah, Gaza. The Croatian midfielder. What? Oh, the place - yeah, yeah terrible, I think it was on the news. Can't they just share? What about dinner? Ban Ki-who? Isn't that a Pokemon? Whatever...pub?"

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Vox Pops: Flashmobbing

Ctrl.Alt.Shift rustled some feathers this week, invading the premises of Tesco outlets around the country with a synchronised Fairtrade banana flashmob - the mission was to expose how the shameless economic giants refuse to sell solely fair trade bananas...

Submitted by Dwain.Lucktung