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It's Been a Bad Year for British Albums but a Great Year for British Music

The mercury prize has to ask big questions about how it can reflect that.
sam wolfson
9.11.14
soccer

Finding El Tri in California

Whenever Mexico plays a friendly, the whole concept of a friendly kinda goes out the window.
Patrick Redford
9.11.14
bacteria

This Bacteria Could Eat Nuclear Waste

Bacteria love cleaning up after our messes, don't they?
Becky Ferreira
9.11.14
Ink Spots

'LAW Magazine' Celebrates the Best of British

Sportswear, greyhound racing, Nicky Blackmarket and amateur boxing.
Amelia Abraham
9.11.14
News

Two Hundred Thousand People in the UK Have Been Assaulted for Being on Welfare

Nearly a million people living on welfare have been abused because of their financial situation. I called Katharine Sacks-Jones, head of policy and campaigns at Crisis UK—and spokesperson for the campaign group Who Benefits?, which commissioned the...
Oscar Webb
9.11.14
Stuff

We Tried to Get a Job by Holding Up Signs at a Train Station

All the people who approached Hannah were men. One even offered her a job she was blatantly unqualified for (she was holding a sign touting her falconry prowess), then took the offer away when she wouldn't give him her phone number.
Hannah Ewens
Hannah Ewens, Photos: Jake Lewis
9.11.14
Paris Lees

Yes or No, Project Britain Is Already Fucked

That so many Scots want to leave the union behind is a death knell in itself.
Paris Lees
9.11.14
Stuff

This London Suburb Has More North Korean Defectors Than Anywhere Else in Europe

New Malden, a.k.a. Little Pyongyang, is a defector paradise. I went to this suburb of southwest London to meet Joo-il Kim, a North Korean defector and editor of the Free NK newspaper.
Roxy Rezvany
Roxy Rezvany, Photos: Thomas Hjelm
9.11.14
Words

THUMPday Playlist: Jimmy Edgar, A.G. Cook, Oliver and More

THUMP helps you get through the hump of the week with a fresh set of the hottest new tunes.
THUMP Staff
9.11.14
switched on

"There Will Always Be a Need to Shake Your Booty": America’s Early Rave Days

Clubs kids, ravers, fashion and illegal warehouse parties collided to birth the nation’s Rave Generation.
THUMP Staff
9.11.14
umpires are the worst

John Lackey Ejected, For Some Reason

This ejection doesn't seem warranted.
Sean Newell
9.11.14
united states

Obama Tells the Nation That America Is Going Back to War in Iraq

In his first primetime speech in a year, President Barack Obama announced his plan to battle the Islamic State in both Iraq and Syria.
Jason Leopold
9.11.14
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