June 26, 2013 Glastonbury Festival has opened its gates as thousands of the festival's 135,000 ticket holders arrive to bag the best camping spots and kick off the epic event. Festival organiser Emily Eavis declared the world's largest music festival, now in its fifth decade, open via Twitter this morning. Continue reading... | ADAM REES | | Hummingbird: London's Homeless on Film | Rough sleeping is on the rise nationally - up 31% over the last two years - with new figures in London also showing a rise in the capital over the past year. At St Mungo's we asked former rough sleepers to interview 34 people, men and women, who had all slept rough over the last 12 months. They said it often doesn't take much for someone to end up on the streets. Continue reading... | | RADHA BEDI | | India: A Dangerous Place to Be a Woman | Last December, India witnessed an unprecedented case of 23-year old Jyoti, fatally gang raped by six men in the capital, New Delhi, after a night out at the cinema with a male friend. The harrowing details of Jyoti's ordeal were every girl's worst nightmare and her death sent shock waves around the world. But six months on - has anything really changed for the women in India? Continue reading... | | | SADAF FAHIM | | How Wonderful It Is to Call Kanye West Stupid | What if we stopped taking offense at art just for touching on a particular subject, whether it's a song lyric about Parkinson's, or a rape joke, or whatever else people are mad about this month? What if instead we took offense at all the things that fall short of the creativity and beauty we want to see? Continue reading... | | NATALIE HOLT | | Much Ado About Egging | How do you lose 10 pounds in a week? Answer: throw an egg at a celebrity. Your subsequent dealings with the tabloid press will be guaranteed to put you off your food. You will feel like you've spent a week hiking through hell; but you will go down a dress size. Within 10 hours of embarking on my own egg throwing diet, I was on the front cover of all of the tabloid newspapers. To my horror, a favourite photo seemed to be a skinny, bikini clad holiday snap from years ago, grabbed from Facebook. My phone was abuzz with calls from PR companies, agents and managers. Continue reading... | |
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