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Bamboo Joint: raided by the junk food cops
Patrick Hayes reports from the first fast-food outlet in Britain to be shut down because it is too close to a school.
‘I never thought I would be a squatter’
Patrick Hayes reports from Visteon in Enfield, where sacked workers launched a surprise occupation of their factory.
A backpacker's guide to eco-death
Into the Wild, Sean Penn's film about the anti-materialist Christopher McCandless, reminds us why being 'one with nature’ is no picnic.
‘It is like things are now, but worse’
Alfonso Cuarón’s apocalyptic drama Children of Men may be set in 2027, but it is self-consciously 'about today'.
Graduation from what?
They may have got their degrees - but after three years of teaching gimmicks and lectures about 'transferable work skills', it is little wonder some students had little to celebrate on graduation day.
