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Charleston and Red Bull- It’s a Christmas party!
Ass grabbing, photocopying genitals, lampshade on heads, gravy- covered beer guts, flashing ties and illuminated reindeer earrings- those are well- known signs of Christmas as thousands of offices around the country get their Christmas parties into full swing. I got invited to Red Bull’s staff Christmas bash in Shoreditch this weekend- only to find those…
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Savage TV: The great journey and the irresistible ’Other’
Norwegian Broadcasting Association sent three Norwegian families to live with indigenous peoples for three weeks and ended up offering a reality show suspiciously similar to the human zoos of old colonial exhibitions. Popularised TV anthropology is a risky sport, especially when 19th century ideas of human beings in their “natural” state reach primetime TV. Every…
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Save a punter: The latest in Norway’s prostitution debate
Since the Norwegian government decided that buying sex will be illegal for Norwegians anywhere on Mother Earth from 1 January 2009, a potlatch debate featuring ‘experts’, moralists, misogynists and misandrists have filled the national and regional papers. Being made redundant in January is not a rosy start to the New Year. It would have made…