Thursday, February 13, 2020

Poll Tax Archive (1): North Middlesex Hospital Anti-Poll Tax News 1990

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It is now 30 years since the high point of the movement against the poll tax. The 'community charge', as it was officially called,...
Sunday, January 26, 2020

Disco isn’t dead. It has gone to war (Tony Cokes)

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If UR Reading This It’s 2 Late: Vol 1   at Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art was the first UK solo exhibition of US-based artist Tony ...
Tuesday, December 31, 2019

2019: a political year on the London streets

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On this last day of the decade I am not going to attempt any kind of political balance sheet. Yes it's been a fairly depressing time in...
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Monday, December 30, 2019

Synth Jam with Wasp

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I haven't done a lot of music making in 2019, but I did enjoy taking part in a Synth Jam earlier in the year as part of the Telegraph H...
Saturday, December 14, 2019

Crass, Poison Girls, UK Decay in Luton, 1979

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As I post this it is forty years ago this very night that anarcho-punk pioneers Crass and Poison Girls played in Luton, along with home town...
Tuesday, November 26, 2019

1937: Police raid Harworth Striking Miners' Dance

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In 1936/37 there was a long and bitter miners’ strike in Nottinghamshire centred on Harworth colliery, sparked by the refusal of mine owners...
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Wednesday, October 16, 2019

The Butterfly Dream

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(Bristol Temple Meads Station, October 2019) 'Long ago, a certain Zhuang Zi dreamed he was a butterfly – a butterfly fluttering her...
Saturday, August 17, 2019

Blinded by the Light - memories of 1980s Luton racism and job cuts

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I enjoyed 'Blinded by The Light', Gurinder Chadha's movie based on Sarfraz Manzoor’s ‘Greetings from Bury Park: Race, Religion,...
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