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Monkeyboy Goes

Ben Cowles spent 10 years working, traveling and teaching in East Asia. Having grown tired of monkeying around in the class room, he returned to the UK and now turns his hairy opposable thumbs to journalism.

Review, Utter Irrelevances28 August, 2017

These two games will stick with me forever: Tacoma & Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice

By Monkeyboy Goes

PEOPLE used to spend their summers outdoors. But in these screen-obsessed times, we seem to be doing less of that. While this ain’t great…

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Great Epiphanies, Interview, UK4 June, 2017

‘If We Stand Together, We Can Make A Difference’: An Interview with Labour’s Chris Williamson

By Monkeyboy Goes

“SORRY I’m late, Ben,” the Labour Party candidate for Derby North Chris Williamson says to me as he greets me outside the train station….

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Capitalism, Featured, Great Epiphanies, Human Rights, Immigration, Journalism2 June, 2017

Tory MP says we should stop being ‘so sentimental’ about child refugees — What ever happened to empathy?

By Monkeyboy Goes

BACK in March 2017, the Tory MP for Mid-Derbyshire Pauline Latham incurred the wrath of the media when, during a House of Commons debate…

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Capitalism, Journalism, Review, Utter Irrelevances6 May, 2017

Jobs’s Terms And Conditions Of Interminable Tedium

By Monkeyboy Goes

“THE CONTRACT everyone agrees to but no-one reads.” That, apart from the gushing quotes from the likes of the Guardian, Washington Post, Time magazine…

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Capitalism, Human Rights, Utter Irrelevances12 April, 2017

Orwell: This Big Brother Simulation Is Only A Game, Isn’t It?

By Monkeyboy Goes

AT THE end of March the free speech and privacy campaigning organisation Open Rights Group published an open letter to Home Secretary Amber Rudd…

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Capitalism, Great Epiphanies, Human Rights, Immigration, UK20 February, 2017

Migrant’s rights are Workers rights are Human rights

By Monkeyboy Goes

IN little over two weeks, the wealthiest and most heavily armed nuclear state on Earth will have an narcissistic orange billionaire misogynist with highly…

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Interview17 January, 2017

An Interview with John Pilger

By Monkeyboy Goes

THERE is a scene in George Orwell’s 1984 at a mass rally when the main character Winston Smith realises the state’s official enemy has…

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Capitalism, Great Epiphanies, Human Rights, Immigration, Interview22 December, 2016

Hitting the Right-wing Media where it Hurts: An Interview with Stop Funding Hate

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“DRIP by drip our society is being poisoned with headlines selling hatred,” begins a video by Stop Funding Hate. “Right now the press use…

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Capitalism, Human Rights, Utter Irrelevances11 October, 2016

Mankind Divided: The Wet Dream of Libertarian Capitalism

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I’VE been spending a fair amount of time recently sneaking around a dystopian near-future version of Prague. As Adam Jensen, a cyborg Interpol agent,…

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Great Epiphanies, Human Rights, Immigration, UK19 September, 2016

Britain’s not full; You’re just empty

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  Britain is full! The United Kingdom is so full of radical “muslamics”, scrounging economic migrants posing as refugees, and weird ex-soviet gypsies that…

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