I recently got myself a digital camera in the sales but it didn’t come with any proper camera bag to protect it when in transit, so I decided to make a little pouch for it to protect it from scratches and the like.

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In the UK, education is compulsory, but schooling is not – which means leaving school and sorting out your own education at home or elsewhere is legitimate and legal. I’ve been working as a facilitator for the Creative Kids Club, a club for home educating kids aged 6-11 that’s self organised by parents. Not having [...]

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Social Change and Lifestyle Change – The Camp for Climate Action 2007
We hope the Camp will be many things for many people. An opportunity to explore what the problems are, and the changes and challenges we face; to show us examples of how some people are already answering those challenges; to gain the skills we [...]

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Picking and eating wild food has become a bit of a new fad, but don’t let that put us off. It is a great way to get to know nature better, and why spend hours slogging away growing spinach on an allotment when there is probably a patch of nettles just nearby? Wild foods are [...]

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Household Name Records are a mainstay on the UK punk scene. Established 10 years ago, and having released near to 100 records it felt like time to have a decent interview with them.

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Rentokill is a hardcore punk band from Austria. Formed about four years ago they’ve just released their second album, ‘Antichorus’. This is an interview with Jack from the band conducted just before the album came out.
LH: You guys come from Austria, which probably couldn’t be described as the punk rock capital of Europe, but still [...]

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Hero Dishonest are a fast thrash hardcore band from Helsinki, Finland; who have played all types of shows, including squats, jazz bars, basements and huge rock arenas. Behind them they have amassed a huge amount of touring, including eight in Europe, three in Russia, two in the USA, two in the UK, and countless gigs [...]

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What would you do if you got the chance to interview Gracie Allen, Josephine Baker and Aphra Benh, a collection of female performers throughout history? Well I got that chance back in spring 2007 when they played the newly re-opened Toynbee Hall in Aldgate, as these women have come back to life, re-incarnate as Guerrilla [...]

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Beat Motel is an insane mash of humour, punk rock, lists and other bits and pieces Andrew and his friends put together. Its an essential read. Andrew became our second zine reviews interviewee for issue 16.
What’s your first memory?
For years I thought my first memory was visiting my sister in hospital when she was born, [...]

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A Flare in the Void: notes on the G8 summit in Germany and beyond.
by Jack Weir
If we’re not causing trouble, we’re not doing it right. This is everything we are. This is all we have. And I’m proud to be a part of it – the travelling circus, the whispering conspiracies, the deafening global roar, [...]

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