“With a history spanning over 100 years, the Clare Market Review has been a part of the LSE and its students’ union since the school was gathering direction, reputation and ethos. With contributions from the Webbs, Bertrand Russell, Ralph Milliband and Spike Milligan, to name but a few – from 1905 to 1973 the review prided itself on being a place where critical thought and opinions could be expressed, free from the constraints of academia. Beyond simple affection shared by those who spent time with Clare, it’s academic presence remains undiminished and the journal continues to demand respect in libraries, university common rooms, and coffee shops the world over.

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“At the moment, I’m in my house in Khan Yunis, in the south of the Gaza Strip. It’s quiet, but there is no electricity and there are some airplanes in the sky. It’s a bit tense because we don’t know what will happen. According to what we heard on the news, it seems that there are some escalations, so we don’t know what is going to happen.

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“Take away the right to say ‘fuck,’” said Lenny Bruce, “and you take away the right to say ‘fuck the government.’” Last December, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Andy Burnham, announced that when it comes to the Internet, “There is content that should just not be available to be viewed. That is my view. Absolutely categorical.” He proposed to start deciding what Internet users can and cannot view by introducing filters which would screen Web pages for obscene content. He was, quite literally, proposing to take away our right to say ‘fuck’.

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What did you last read on the internet? Perhaps you browsed a vintage wine list, planned a holiday or—more in keeping with the times—investigated which newly nationalised bank offers the best rates. Would you object to advertisements popping up for Chateau Latour, Caribbean resorts or Bradford & Bingley? Might you feel your privacy had been violated by new companies able to record your surfing habits and feed you adverts based on where you had been? Or would you welcome this as a useful service?

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A country as rich in secrets and decadence as it is in culture and history, Ethiopia has existed for many years with more troubles simmering just beneath the surface than most people can imagine. Already the second most populous country in Africa, Ethiopia’s population is growing at an alarming rate and is projected to increase by 120 percent by the year 2050. The addition of nearly two million people per year can only exacerbate the plethora of health and educational problems that affect daily life in Ethiopia, and bring to the surface, long buried troubles. One such issue, hidden within the deep religiosity of Ethiopian society is the taboo subject of mental health.

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When I was sixteen my bedroom had red walls. I grew up in Canada, and, where I lived it was below zero from November until May. The heating on my side of the house didn’t work properly, and aside from sleeping under a collection of blankets I thought red walls would make me feel warmer.

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Then so depressed now so joyful, on his knees with his tongue relishing the acrid juices of her sex. With her feet in the air she flailed out, bringing Bartlett and Jung down, off the shelf to hit his head. How the whore enjoyed his bristly neurotic chin tickling her perineum, even her anus. Most men would not enjoy her sex, he wasn’t afraid to smother his self in the lotus petals of flesh.

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Alastair Campbell was once branded the “latter-day Goebbels.” He spins tales of madness to Alexandra White

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By late in the evening, a disoriented Japanese news crew arrived on Osage Avenue in West Philadelphia, asking frantic questions of local reporters on the scene. “Where should we go?” they queried. Where should they go? After 32 hours without sleep, having survived a hail of police gunfire and watched a bomb dropped on a row house, I could only turn and point behind them. A neighborhood was burning to the ground not half a block from us.

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Much ink has been spilled, many theories proposed, indeed, much information has been transmitted with the purpose of delineating a theory of information itself. Information has been equated with digits in binary language, as if all meaning could be translated into computer code and quantified. It has been related to entropy by physicists and analysed as an inverse measure of uncertainty. Neuroscientists speak of the brain as an ‘information processor’ and propose models whereby information is ‘transmitted’ between brain areas. These models treat information as a thing or quantity– indeed, the notion of a non-thing is anathema to science – yet who has ever put his hand on a ‘quantum’ of information?

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