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Blog - Bibi van der Zee

So it seems that being hit by a policeman is news - to the surprise of many activists I know who have been hit a few times. "No one was impressed before," said one. "Police have been hitting protesters as long as I can remember, why the interest now?" The reason for the interest...

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Editors Blog: Riz Ahmed

New Brit flick Shifty - where a young crack cocaine dealer in London sees his life spiral out of control when his best friend returns home - is heading for the list of cult underworld classics. And It’s a sure bet that lead actor Riz Ahmed’s star will continue to rise as a result...

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Feature: I Can't Think Straight

Last month, London hosted its 23rd Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, and Ctrl.Alt.Shift took the opportunity to catch up with Shamim Sarif to talk about her film 'I Can't Think Straight'. It's a movie that somehow manages to juggle women coming to terms with their sexuality, Middle Eastern politics...

Submitted by Kevin E.G. Perry

Ctrl.Alt.Shift @ Disordered?

The Wellcome Collection in Euston, London, home to all things combining medicine with art, recently held a talk entitled 'Disordered?' The premise of the discussion was quite simple: We currently have a number of personality disorder categories used by psychiatrists today, such as antisocial,...

Submitted by Holly.Howe

Lemmer's Rogue Report

Where was Hamid Karzai, president of Afghanistan, when Jacqui Smith needed him? Ms. Smith works long hours supervising police brutality, leaked memos, dodgy arrests and Gordon Brown's ego, and clearly this leaves her husband very frustrated. He is left at home, alone, with nothing but a second-hand...

Submitted by Richard.Lemmer

Ctrl.Alt.Shift @ A Forca De Gua Exhibition

Upon walking into London's theprintspace, my eyes lit up as I saw an array of spectacular customised guitars; each one graffed-up, funked-up, gleaming with sheer genius graffsmanship. As a guitar player, I felt to snatch and vanish ninja-style, until I remembered - these were up for auction, and...

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Feature: Ctrl Meets Tor Cesay

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Ctrl.Alt.Shift @ Barack Obama's People

The streets of Birmingham were heaving with people on this beautiful morning on Saturday April 18th. An exhibition on Barrack Obama's People was opening in the heart of the city. What exactly was this exhibition for? Why Birmingham? These were the questions I went to find answers to. I entered the...

Submitted by Nira.Ghedia

Feature: We Live On Financial Crimes

On the eve of the G20 protests in London, the Financial Times reported that the world had survived "Equal Rights Day", that capitalism is in fact not the same thing as democracy after all, and that WMDs (Weapons of Mass Destruction) had been found in Detroit.

Submitted by Kevin E.G. Perry

Stray Bullets

Were the G20 protests well policed? The Metropolitan police tactics for protests are to be reviewed in a wide-ranging independent inquiry. The inquiry will ask whether the Met has strayed from "the British way" of policing protests, using minimum force. The eradication of the Tamil Tigers in Sri...

Submitted by Richard.Lemmer