Alex Miller
Why the Khat Ban Will Be Almost As Pointless As the Drug Itself
In the worst case scenario, it could also be incredibly damaging for the UK.
Clive Stafford Smith
Clive Stafford Smith spent years working as a death-row lawyer in the South before becoming the legal director of the UK branch of Reprieve, a non-profit organization that has long campaigned for the rights of death-row prisoners. Since 2002 Reprieve...
Austerity's Drug of Choice
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
This Is the Worst Advertising Campaign Ever
I saw Andrex's "Scrunch or Fold?" ad and I can't stop thinking about arseholes.
Resistance in the West Bank
In November 2012, we were invited to attend the first Palestinian National Youth Week, an elaborate PR event put on by the Palestinian Authority to celebrate the fighting spirit of the Palestinian youth and bolster their case for sovereignty. We soon...