Tag: UK
Artist Damien Hirst‘s plan to build an extension to the UK town of Ilfracombe has passed the initial stage of approval, North Devon Journal reports. The “Southern Extension” will include “750 houses, shops, a new primary school and health care facilities.” Controversy previously sprung up around the proposal in the North Devon Council. Councillor Peter Cresswell raised concerns […]
The UK Ministry of Defense has released their annual report on the future. Entitled Global Strategic Trends — Out Till 2045 [PDF], it sets out predictions until 2045, when the world will allegedly be engulfed by chaos and despair. Wired UK broke it down to a list of nine of the very worst things that will happen in the future, […]
Matthew Hancock, a politician and Conservative member of British Parliament, posed for a photo in front of a graffiti-covered skatepark in London, but it was one tag in particular that stood out from the rest. It was the one that called for Prime Minister David Cameron, his boss, to be fired. “Sack Cameron!” read the […]
UK’s anti-censorship organization Open Rights Group has been testing thousands of sites to see whether they are accessible through filters designed to protect children from adult content. They found out that approximately one fifth of sites are caught in a filter and blocked from the UK public. These sites include “a Porsche broker, political blog Guido Fawkes and a […]
When a piece of stenciled art on plywood appeared in Bristol last month affixed to a public wall near the Broad Plains Boys Club, its leader Dennis Stinchcombe couldn’t be certain it was the work of Banksy. The piece depicted a man and woman staring into their cell phone screens, mid embrace, and although it […]
Cocaine use is so widespread in the UK that it’s literally in the water, according to the UK drug policy reform advocates Transform. Recent studies of drinking water have shown trace amounts of the metabolized form of cocaine in four different locations. The Independent reported: Experts from the Drinking Water Inspectorate found supplies contained benzoylecgonine, the metabolised form […]
The UK police is beefing up its “riot control” maneuvers in some bizarre ways. They have erected an entire fake town. It looks like a dystopian Potemkin village or a movie studio set, where police trainees go to play out a variety of riot scenarios and strategize controlling violent crowds in complex city environments. After […]
They were “The New Artists” of St. Petersburg, an underground collective operating out of communal apartment in the early 1980s, influenced by German Expressionism, Pop Art and Primitivism. The collective was founded by artist/philosopher Timur Novikov, attracted the likes of Brian Eno, Andy Warhol and John Cage, and sprouted the sexually ambiguous and homoerotic “New Academy” movement. The work and […]
As part of an initiative to curb illegal graffiti in Dorchester — a city in South West England — the local council enacted a program that commissions public murals from area artists such as Peter Sheridan. He was given permission to paint a wall underneath a railway bridge. And so he did. Armed with aerosol, […]
Gemma Moss, a 31-year-old British woman, reportedly died this week of a cannabis overdose. This is notable because it’s widely understood that death from pot is virtually impossible. The only other dubious report also comes from Britain: in 2004, Lee Maisey was said to die of cannabis poisoning at age 36. A study cited in […]
