Bah Humbug! Scrooging along this Xmas

Well Christmas is coming and the goose is getting decidedly edgy. The stockings and decorations are being dragged out of the loft and Cliff Richard is back on the radio.

THINK TANK | The Writing on The Wall

Coming from the Italian word for ‘scratch’ graffiti has is one of the oldest forms of human expression dating back to the first cave paintings carried out on walls in animal blood before even language was invented we were putting our thoughts and stories on cave walls so that others may learn them.

THINK TANK | People Watching

YOU KNOW the times you spend just looking at people in the street or on trains and busses and wondering who they are? I’m talking about the times you find yourself sat on the fountain in Stevenage or using the underground at King’s Cross and you look up at a stranger and find yourself wondering [...]

LIVE | Sonic Boom 6 and The Skints

THE REBIRTH OF SKA PUNK?
Relentless Garage, Highbury and Islington, 15/10/09.
I’D HEARD good things about the Skints from various whispers around town but never actually heard them until tonight and I just wish I’d seen them sooner.
With everything based around a modern rude-boi reggae style the band have a real slinky feel to them with [...]

Giving Blood pt. 2

I gave blood again yesterday and after a few hours took the plaster off. Walking into Sainbury’s, I handed over the money for my hummus and the woman behind the counter recoiled in utter horror at the track mark on my arm. Instantly she believed I was a heroin user! Why are we not at [...]

Giving and refusing blood – newest Da Hui Column

 
I give blood, I don’t brag about it or show off about it and don’t generally bring it up unless it comes up in conversation and still then I remain humble because I do it simply for the people who stand to benefit from it – yeah you knew I was gonna say that didn’t [...]

Faking your own death

Words by Da Hui
I always joked with friends since I was young that once my 35th birthday rolled around if I was not happy with my life that I would undergo a sex change and live out the rest of my life as a woman – frankly this isn’t going to happen unless someone pays [...]

Karma

/[kahr-muh] –noun

 
Theosophy. the cosmic principle according to which each person is rewarded or punished in one incarnation according to that person’s deeds in the previous incarnation.

Origin:
1820–30; < Skt: nom., acc. sing. of karman act, We all know what it means, to ourselves at least but to the person in the next room? The guy [...]