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Hundreds rallied at Piccadilly Circus on Friday night to protest the Chinese Communist Party.

Activists from NGOs and London communities came together in response to what they labelled “crackdowns” by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in East Turkestan, Hong Kong and Tibet.

A former World Poetry Slam Champion today hit Chris Evans with a diss track after the radio host insulted his London Marathon inspiration.

Harry Baker, 29, who became the youngest ever winner of the Poetry Slam World Cup in 2021, will run this weekend’s race dressed as falafel on a spoon after noticed the pleasing sound of the German for “Falafel spoon runner” –Falafellöffellaufer.

Evans, 55, responded to the story on his Breakfast Show, and said: “I’ve been on the radio since half past six tr

Legendary York music venue Fibbers may gig again – after it was taken over by the squatters who previously occupied land next to the Barbican Centre.

The group, known as the Barbican Community Centre, hope to turn the empty site into a café, library and music space, with social housing in the upstairs area that used to house the Black Orchid lap dancing club.

One of the squatters, Patrick Thelwell, told YorkMix: “This is our space now – it belongs to the people of York.”

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When people have talked about the “front line” of this pandemic, they’re often referencing the amazing doctors and nurses, fighting with every shred of their being to save their patients. However, in a world where there is no dividing line between us and the virus, where our community is interwoven with our enemy, we fight on many fronts.

Nowhere is this more evident than with Tatton Spiller, the originator, voice, and mastermind of Simple Politics. There has been something comforting about the

Giovanni Paine Nassif was in hospital on 4 August, when approximately 2,700 tonnes of ammonium nitrate in Beirut’s port formed a mushroom cloud above the city.

One twentieth of the size of Hiroshima’s atomic bomb, Giovanni remembers that: “The hospital moved. Chairs fell down. And I was like – someone’s attacking us in the hospital. That was my – it was everyone’s – first reaction. Even the fire alarm in the hospital turned on, and from the point of the explosion to the hospital it’s 20 minutes

On the Morning of 3 September, the nation awoke to empty spaces where newspaper stacks should have towered.

Our country’s most dominant papers, including The Sun, The Mail, The Times and The Telegraph were halted after NewsCorp Print Presses were blockaded by Extinction Rebellion (XR) activists “to expose the failure of these corporations to accurately report on the climate and ecological emergency, and their consistent manipulation of the truth to suit their own personal and political agendas”

I was at a truly terrifying point of my life – you see, we were three weeks into a second lockdown, and my hair hadn’t been cut for over two months.

I had two options: either I grew out my locks until I transitioned into a mid-life crisis ex-Milkybar Kid, or I let my housemates loose. Considering their pots have not left our sink since mid-October, I was not confident of my chances.

However, many students did take this plunge.

Tom Willett, a third year History student, has become his house’s

You know that moment at the end of a holiday, when you allow yourself to sink to the bottom of the pool in the full knowledge that this is your last opportunity for another year? The split second where you are simply part of the water, before physics inevitably reels you back to the surface.

Listening to Bull wraps you in the same sense of total submergence – for two minutes and fifty-four seconds you are utterly displaced by Tom Beer’s wistful irreverence.

And that’s just ‘Green’ – their debu