History is made at night

I jogged along to cheer on the Youth Strike 4 Climate in  central London yesterday. Great to see thousands of school students seemingly wand...

It's been a long time since I've done one of these posts , but important to remind ourselves that the anti-rave Criminal Justice Act...

Some pictures from Athens last weekend: Demonstrators gather outside the university on 6 December, the 6th anniversary of the killing o...

So P rime Minister David Cameron sticks his nose into a current court case and proclaims his support for Nigella Lawson - well of course s...

That the state seeks to clamp down on 'pirate radio' is perhaps not surprizing, what is inspiring though is that across the world pe...

The Guardian reported earlier this month (10 October): 'Iran's revolutionary guards have announced the arrest of "a network ...

It's the start of a new term in British student life, and yes no doubt at the end of Freshers Week some students are going out dancing, ...

This is one of my favourite headlines for a while, from  Slate.Com : 'Bodybuilder Sneaks Aboard German Leader’s Jet, Stages One Man Ra...

Protests are spreading across Turkey following the violent police assault on the Gezi park occupation on Taksim Square in Istanbul city cent...

Santa Maria, Brazil, 2013 'Sixteen people will face criminal charges in connection with a deadly fire at a Brazil nightclub in January...

A new low in corporate clubbing at the Shimmy club in Glasgow, where women have complained about a two way mirror looking in to the women...

No sooner has a dance craze exploded over the internet than it seems to emerge as a global protest meme. Protestors have been doing it Gan...

The Idle No More movement for indigenous rights started out in Canada last year, and has been marked by protests across the country and sim...

Sad to hear that Freedom Bookshop in Whitechapel High Street was damaged last night in an apparent arson attack. The anarchist centre in An...

The threatened closure of HMV (which has gone into administration) saddens me mainly because thousands of staff in its shops in Britain and ...

If anyone got robbed, burgled or raped this weekend in London and wondered where the police were when they needed them - hey, they had other...

Glad to see Elizabeth Price win the Turner Prize. Pleased too that she mentioned her (similar to mine) Luton upbringing in her winning speec...

Alain Badiou's latest book to be translated into English is 'The Rebirth of History: Times of Riots and Uprisings' (published by...