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    The Blue Tortoise

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    Words by: Sadna Choudhury My shoelace is gone off. I can’t tie it like Mummy can. It is getting dark outside. Big, tall lights in the sky have come on. I can’t see Mummy. Where is Mummy and Auntie Dee? Tommy said to wait, but I saw the blue tortoise and it was blue and…

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    How Should Young People Burst The Westminster Bubble?

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    Words and Photographs by Neil Harrison The iDebate, Manchester Town Hall, 11th March: ‘A Generation of Young People Is Right To Give Up On Westminster Politics’? Arguably, the most striking element of this week’s iDebate was the prevalent consensus. Each of the Independent journalists and columnists on the debating panel acknowledged the fact that the current model of…

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    World War One & The Ukraine Crisis – ‘The Pity of War’ Reconsidered

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    Words by Joshua Hill Niall Ferguson’s The Pity of War became strikingly relevant last week as, nearly 100 years after the outbreak of the First World War, Russian troops advanced into Ukraine, a move the Ukrainian government described a declaration of war. But while the former escalated into a global conflict, the latter has so…

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    Bob Crow 1961 – 2014

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    When London Mayor Boris Johnson said: “I’m shocked. Bob Crow was a fighter and a man of character…” he was referring to Robert Crow, General Secretary of the National Union of Rail and Maritime Workers (RMT), who has died aged 52. The grandson of an East End boxer, Bob Crow was born in Shadwell, East…

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    LGBT in Punk Culture

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    ‘“I’m the shy boy, you’re the coy boy”: Punk, LGBT culture and politics in Britain’ – Dr David Wilkinson (University of Reading), Manchester Metropolitan University, 4th March 2014 What do you imagine when you think of Punk? Piercings? Green Mohican haircuts? Anti-social behaviour? Great music? Whatever you associate with the genre, something that may not…

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