netroots [notroots]
A spot of ‘reporting’ for the visionon.tv boys at the netroots conference yesterday. Here we’re speaking with Donnacha Delong, an NUJ activist. Although the premise for netroots was admirable [how to...
View Articlejonnie marbles, chris coltrane and the jammy dodger
one cold winter morning comedians chris coltrane and jonnie marbles went to the conservative party offices to give chancellor george osborne a jammy dodger. why give fatty a biscuit? he came up tops in...
View ArticleUnderstanding Politics Through Eurovision
Today we have been busy working out the lyrics to Belarus’ entry into the Eurovision Song Contest. Seems a reasonable break from looking Indian cotton farmer suicide statistics. Twenty-year-old...
View ArticlePeter Kennard mumbles at me for Tank Magazine
Peter Kennard is an artist and teacher who has been creating photomontages for nearly half a century. Dubbed the “master of the medium” by the critic John Berger, Kennard’s ‘Broken Missile’ image for...
View ArticleAdam Curtis talks to me for Tank Magazine
Adam Curtis is a documentary filmmaker and academic who is best known for his use of videomontage to relay sociopolitical analyses of the modern age. His films include The Century of the Self and The...
View Articlenews of the screwed
Thanks to a fateful week in journalism, I got to have a little fun at the expense of Rupert Murdoch, Andy Coulson, Rebekah Wade and the Metropolitan Police…with a coupla dudes in dirty macs and cheap...
View Articlejonnie marbles’ sentence sends a clear signal
Comedian Jonathan May-Bowles was yesterday sentenced to six weeks in jail for throwing a shaving-foam pie at Rupert Murdoch whilst the media tycoon was giving evidence at the Commons Culture, Media and...
View Articleolympic ideal puts money before democracy
A series of Home Office proposals could ban protests during the London 2012 Olympic games. In reaction to the longevity and scale of recent Occupy London takeovers of public and private space at St...
View Articleirhal [amnesty video]
Here’s another short film made by Peter Kennard and I for Amnesty International’s Global Day of Action for human rights across the Middle East and North Africa. It premiered at a rally of thousands in...
View ArticleDisobedient Objects
This is happening. 26 July 2014 – 01 February 2015. See if you can spot our naughty little paws in the exhibition (clue: billboards). It’s a “Look mum, we’re in the V&A” moment. We’re also making...
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