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Jamie Bartlett is Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media, which is a collaboration between Demos and the University of Sussex. The Centre combines computer and social sciences for policy research. Jamie’s work focuses on the ways in which social media and modern communications and technology are changing political and social movements, with a special emphasis on terrorism and radical politics. Jamie is author of The Dark Net, (William Heinemann, 2013), and Radicals (Penguin, 2017)

University cancels free speech comedy show

16/06/2017

Comic Kate Smurthwaite has show pulled after threat of protest at views on sex work

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Comrade Kim Goes Flying has everything (except democracy, human rights, freedom of speech, food)

16/06/2017

Comrade Kim Goes Flying has everything (except democracy, human rights, freedom of speech, food)

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Chris Blohm is a freelance film writer based in London. He is a regular contributor to Little White Lies, Virgin Movies and VODzilla, and his collected work can be found at www.chrisblohm.com.
Chris Blohm is a freelance film writer based in London. He is a regular contributor to Little White Lies, Virgin Movies and VODzilla, and his collected work can be found at www.chrisblohm.com.

Why the Oscars matter

16/06/2017

Beyond the glitz and the graft, the Academy Awards have the power to propel deserving, daring films into the limelight

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Scott Wood writes regularly for Londonist, Fortean Times and The Skeptic (UK). He has contributed to the encyclopaedia Ghosts, Spirits, and Psychics: The Paranormal from Alchemy to Zombies and Antony Clayton’s book Folkore of London. He is the author of London Urban Legends: The Corpse on the Tube and the host and co-organiser of the London Fortean Society.
Scott Wood writes regularly for Londonist, Fortean Times and The Skeptic (UK). He has contributed to the encyclopaedia Ghosts, Spirits, and Psychics: The Paranormal from Alchemy to Zombies and Antony Clayton’s book Folkore of London. He is the author of London Urban Legends: The Corpse on the Tube and the host and co-organiser of the London Fortean Society.

Holocaust Memorial Day: why we remember

16/06/2017

Our repetition of the mantra "never again" does not absolve us from guilt

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Have the Conservatives lost faith in City slickers?

16/06/2017

The UK government has moved its own money away from risk-and-reward active fund management

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