Austerity's Drug of Choice

Sisa Is Destroying the Lives of Athens’s Homeless People

Greece's infamous new drug, sisa, is basically meth and filler ingredients like battery acid, engine oil, shampoo, and cooking salt. The majority of its users are poor, often homeless, city dwellers reeling from the psychological and physical impacts of a country in the grip of economic collapse. Full story

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Sisa: Cocaine of the Poor

A new drug called sisa is tearing its way through Athens' poor. The ingredients are basically meth and filler things like battery acid, engine oil, shampoo, and cooking salt. It acts faster and the effects last longer than coke, and it can be produced in home-based laboratories. Full story

Conspiracy Theorists Are Dangerous Enemies to Make

The conspiracy world doesn’t like it when you question their accepted truths. So when Charlie Veitch announced that he didn’t believe the American government blew up the World Trade Center, it cut deep. The poster boy for the British conspiracy-theory world was about to become it… Full story

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Protesting Thatcher's Funeral

On the morning of Wednesday April 17, 2013, the Iron Lady was laid to rest. Anti-Thatcher protesters planned on congregating at Ludgate Circus so they could turn their backs on the coffin as it went past. We went along to count the vicious socialists who booed. They weren't that Full story

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Margaret Thatcher's Death Party

On Saturday, thousands of people showed up in Trafalgar Square in London to celebrate the death of Margaret Thatcher. Our colleagues from VICE UK went along to witness this morbid and very British party. Full story

Looking Beneath the Waves

Adam Curtis is Britain’s greatest documentary filmmaker. He’s also one of the best artists the country has produced in recent times. Curtis makes polemical, subtle films that question the status quo from within the British Broadcasting Corporation. Full story

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David Icke and the Lizard Apocalypse

We travel to the Isle of Wight to meet the most iconic conspiracy theorist on Earth, David Icke. Icke discovered that a race of shape-shifting lizards has been masquerading as presidents and monarchs for centuries while planning to crush the planet. Full story

Do We Really Want the Tom Daley Twitter Dick to End Up in Prison?

Yesterday, Tom Daley, that twinky British kid with a preternatural ability to fall into water gracefully, failed to get an Olympic medal. Most of England realized that you can't win all the time, and set about consoling him because Tom was, presumably, a little bummed out. But so… Full story

Alex Jones Thinks We Predicted 9/11

We really didn't, it was just a joke. Full story

There's a New Kony Video

Will Invisible Children go highbrow, or will they cry into the camera while screaming about the devil? Full story