Anna Chen – 31 July 2023, Julian Assange Julian Assange punished for informing the public There’s something monumental and mythical about the Promethean figure of Julian Assange having his liver pecked out every day by the US eagle for taking information from the self-styled gods and giving it to us humans. In Graeco-Roman mythology, Prometheus […]
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At last, the new long-overdue edition of Charles Shaar Murray’s coruscating collection of journalism — Shots From the Hip (I told him his next one should be called Shots From the Hip Replacement) — first published in 1991, with a new introduction by Joel Nathan Rosen and a new afterword by CSM himself. It puts together
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A most enjoyable evening was had on Monday night with the Resonance FM crew for a fundraiser in support of London’s best arts radio station. The Slaughtered Lamb, which is much how freelance writers often think of themselves nowadays, was the Clerkenwell venue. Neil Denny from Resonance FM’s Little Atoms series chaired a panel discussion
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Charles Shaar Murray’s Journalism as Craft and Art writing course goes live tonight in NW6 for eight weeks. The Hothouse Project is now on Facebook and here’s what amounts to our manifesto: Charles Shaar Murray’s “Journalism as Craft and Art” writing course is the basis of our alternative education group, The Hothouse Project, featuring the
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Why can’t the Chinese authorities stop shooting themselves in the foot? If you are going to expel a journalist, it had better be for a more pertinent reason than reporting events accurately. It looks as if Al-Jazeera’s only English-language reporter Melissa Chan is guilty of the crime of uncovering scandals such as the perennial one
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That comatose science fiction writer and his dystopian fever dream I keep writing about has been stirring of late. Giant solar flares and supermoons exert malign invisible forces. Planet Earth splits apart and shifts its axis. Middle Eastern tyrants cling on to power while the West short-circuits itself into a state of paralysis: to act
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