Trouble & Squeak

  • Coffin Bearers Needed – Saturday April 16th, Brighton

    KC. Bill. Caroline. Gareth. Simon. These are the names of just five of the citizens that Brighton and Hove have lost in the recent months. They had been calling the streets and the shop doorways their homes, but like more than 50 other homeless people in the last three years, they have been killed by…

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  • There Can Be No Peace in Syria Until There Is Justice

    Whilst the world’s major powers collectively pat themselves on the back for brokering a ceasefire in Syria, they fail to notice that the war, though diluted in its violence, is yet to stop. Despite the widely reported truce between Regime forces and those opposed to Bashar al-Assad, the death toll continues to rise in Syria.…

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  • The Democracy Myth

    As well as the need to eradicate Weapons of Mass Destruction, one of the key selling point of the West’s illegal interventions in the Middle East, was to export democracy and freedom. Amidst the chaos and the war crimes, the irony is not lost on me that the West does not have a democracy to…

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  • Monotonous, Repetitive Failures – We Need To Change The Way We Protest In 21st Century Britain

    In 2011, during my second year of university, Time Magazine chose The Protester as their Person of the Year. On the one hand this is a great cause for celebration as the millions of individuals committed to the struggle were, in some way, rewarded for their actions. The hours of work, the days of organisation, the minor…

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  • Tattoos On The Big Screen Are In Need of A Makeover

    With Oscar fever beginning to sweep in, accompanied by the justified criticism over their complete lack of diversity, I feel its only right that we turn our gaze to the big screen and its portrayal of tattoos. Though both online and on the small screen tattoos are the focus for many shows, Hollywood’s glamour does…

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