Across the ‘developing’ world, one tactic all agree on is the importance of universal education for the alleviation of poverty. In Nepal, after the recent construction of two new schools under the Nepal-India Economic Cooperation Programme, Ambassador Prasad declared that these projects would help Nepali people in their strides towards peace and prosperity. But … Continue reading »
Image: Bob and Roberta Smith The rhetoric this government are using to convince people the arts cuts are needed is that there are more important things right now to be worried about and giving money to than the arts. Continue reading »
Photograph: Nastasia Alberti I aspire to see a world where there is a true choice for all. Not a false choice between working in shit job A or shit job B, not a choice that feeds into a bogus declaration of how a country should feel. I don’t aspire to be a home owner – … Continue reading »
In the middle of ‘austerity’ what do people want to stand in front of? A government who slashes public services and the arts – as if they aren’t interlinked – is a government who does not understand the importance of the culture. David Cameron can stand in as many One Direction videos as he … Continue reading »
Judging only from the current state of journalism, it would seem that blogs and the Internet have introduced a new challenge to the longstanding, steadfast tradition of objective journalism – where the writer is not an individual, but merely a catalyst through which the story flows, unmarred, from pure fact to written word. It … Continue reading »
This article attempts to examine the contrasting yet concurrent ways Britain and German have attempted to deal with their historical traditions. Continue reading »
The next in the series of ‘Bible for Kids’- The Bible, rewritten in easy to understand story form. Featuring horrifying illustrations and unconvinced commentary. What happens when Cain meets Abel? We give you the official and not so official version… THE BIBLE SAYETH: Life was hard for Adam and Eve outside the garden, as God … Continue reading »
“Man’s love is of his life a thing apart / ‘Tis woman’s whole existence”. / It was in Don Juan that Lord Byron reminded me how one often finds them self portraying and perceiving woman as the dependent creature. Continue reading »
