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‘Adults are idiots’
| Laurie Anderson and her new show, Homeland.

Homophobia rife in British society, landmark equality survey finds

Jagger vs Lennon
| London’s riots of 1968 provided the backdrop to a rock’n’roll battle royale.

Arthur writer jailed on bullshit charge

The Dynamiter: More New Arabian Nights (Longmans, London; 1914).
I’ve mentioned before that I’m a sporadic collector of the Tusitala Edition of Robert Louis Stevenson’s works, 35 small blue volumes published by Heinemann, London in 1924. I’ve found 15 of them so far and today turned up another one, volume 25, Virginibus […]

I posted the text of William Burroughs’ Thanksgiving Prayer last year as there wasn’t a copy of Gus Van Sant’s film version available anywhere. YouTube has now filled that gap.
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• William Burroughs gives thanks
• The Final Academy
• William Burroughs book covers
• Towers Open Fire

left: Maggi Hambling’s Oscar Wilde monument near Covent Garden, London.
“Yes, we shall win in the end; but the road will be long and red with monstrous martyrdoms.” Oscar Wilde, after his release from Reading Gaol in 1897.
“Forty years ago in Britain, loving the wrong person could make you a criminal. Smiling in the park […]

One of the exotic creatures at today’s London Pride march. More pictures at this Flickr pool. Marchers braved wet weather and renewed terrorist threats after two unexploded car bombs were found on Friday. (And where that matter is concerned, The Register has a rebuke to the inevitable hysterics.)

On a related note, this site has a […]

40 years of gay freedom in England
Coming out of the dark ages.

The Barnbrook Bible, out in September.
Jonathan Barnbrook at the Design Museum, 19 June–10 October 2007.
Jonathan Barnbrook has emerged in the past two decades as one of the UK’s most consistently innovative graphic designers. Pioneering graphic design with a social conscience, Barnbrook makes powerful statements about corporate culture, consumerism, war and international politics. Through his […]