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Blog: Bibi Van Der Zee

The MPs are suffering for their sneaky ways with the public's money. Hip hip hurrah for the Climate Rush girls! On Monday they'll be welcoming MPs back from a brief holiday with a protest cycle around London (you can find details if you want to join in on the Climate Rush website), which will, I...

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Blog: Russell Myrie

Just when he really thought it couldn't get any worse. The exodus from the cabinet was most definitely not part of Gordon Brown's plan. He was supposed to reshuffle the cabinet himself, regain a bit of the leadership props that he lost during the earliest part of the expenses scandal, and keep it...

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Feature: Shell on Trial

This week, oil giant Shell will appear in court charged with crimes against humanity for their alleged role in the deaths of nine environmental protestors. Fourteen years ago, the leaders of the Movement of Survival for Ogoni People were executed by the Nigerian authorities for highlighting the...

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Young Blood: Activist Or Terrorist?

What would you like for your birthday? How about your freedom - gift wrapped - in an all inclusive flight home, plus your release from your quarters in a southern Nigerian oil swamp that you have been living in as a hostage for the last nine months? Not to mention you get to roll with your very own...

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Feature: The Unknown Rebel

Twenty years ago, one man in Beijing stood in front of four tanks and brought them to a standstill. His picture has been reproduced thousands of times, and yet his identity remains a mystery. He has been called The Unknown Rebel, or more prosaically referred to as Tank Man, and he has become...

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Blog: Russell Myrie - Nuclear Arms

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...

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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) -...

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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...

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