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The Brunswick Open Mic in Brighton is a Very Good Open Mic
i start on a salty note: this open mic isn’t an open mic in the most important of ways. I don’t mean “anyone who turns up on the night gets a slot” – I understand why even open mics would like to operate some form of quality control – it’s also a good way of… Read more
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‘Decline Porn’: how far right YouTubers are pretending to be scared of London
Despite my excessively, almost self-parodically left-wing search history, I noticed recently that YouTube is trying to get me to click on videos of angry-looking white men doing walk-and-talk videos around London. In these, said white men (and, occasionally, women) walk around multicultural areas of London like Brixton and Whitechapel – let’s face it, it’s often… Read more
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Drawing the Line at Cressingham Gardens: Morning Star column 20/10/15
“We’ve got family around us, and mum doesn’t want to move.” “We’ve got a support group in the area…” I’m sat on a paving slab in Cressingham Gardens estate, south London, trying but largely failing to sketch a vista that has far too much going on for my limited artistic talents. I’m at Drawing The… Read more
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