Tag: United Kingdom
Sex workers and lovers of fun are combining forces to protest the UK’s egregious new pornography laws. Calling the planned demonstration #PornProtest, organizers say the event will climax with a mass face-sit-in where: demonstrators will simulate sex acts with each other and sing along to Monty Python’s ‘Sit On My Face.’ The new laws ban strangulation, whipping and […]
On December 6, 2013, the day after Nelson Mandela died, the British conservative activist Jeff Vinall posted the following Facebook status update. “Another terrorist has died,” it reads. “Let us look to making sure our future is safe from similar situations and similar people.” When the UK-based liberal-leaning website Political Scrapbook posted a story about it, […]
You’re looking at VAMP, the London graffiti so prolific a judge recently called his work “industrial in scale.” He tagged trains, walls, and bridges all over the city, logging hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of damages and earning the respect of the local graff scene and the ire of the police. He also had […]
The British Army has begun using some unbelievably small drones on the front lines in Afghanistan. At just four by two inches, the Black Hornet Nano Unmanned Aerial Vehicle is small enough to fit in the palm of a child’s hand. It’s equipped with what must be an infinitesimally small camera, which soldiers use to […]
