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El-P and Killer Mike do it again on record number two

Run The Jewels is more than the sum of its already formidable parts. On El-P and Killer Mike’s first joint album last year, this came from the complimenting skills brought…

Iceage – Ploughing into the Field of Love

Being uncontrollable is a central concept to punk, a manifestation of the emotional rage of the genre and the message it carries. Iceage have always taken this to heart, and…

An end to centrist politics is approaching

Now the party conference season is drawing to a close, the ideological battlefronts on which next year’s general election is to be fought have been declared. For the first time…

Mr Market

When Moses descended from Mount Sinai, he brought with him the power of the Word of God, written by His hand on stone tablets. The words so inscribed form the…

Kendrick Lamar

In ‘i’, the presumed first single from Kendrick’s follow up to the astonishing 2012 album Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City, he seems to move into the territory of the self, trying…

Accounting standards need cleaning up

In the world of economics, accounting standards are not the subjects most likely to thrill the mind. They are the financial equivalent of North Korea; everyone’s happiest ignoring them, until…

Mr Market

Mr Market is something of an admirer of Lord Byron. Indeed, he is an avid avower of his own Byronic stature, keenly pressing his Romantic credentials to anyone who will…

Well-financed terrorism is a real threat

Carving out a caliphate costs money. Through extortion, finance, and the spoils of war has the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) been able to afford its military and…