A glimpse into a surreal abyss: how COVID ravaged a remote city in the Amazonian jungle – podcast: When the first cases of COVID began to spread around the world in early 2020, people in Iquitos, a remote city in the Peruvian Amazon, weren’t unduly worried. They assumed their isolation would protect them. It didn’t. …
South Africa in the news: A city transformed: SF marks 6 months of surreal living: Many of the city’s iconic spaces are opening up. Outwardly, they may look the same. Yet after half a year of living with a pandemic, they’re all different, too. So are the people in masks who pass …: “South Africa” …
UK’s new post-Brexit immigration plan is surreal and cynical: The publication of the British government’s white paper for a post-Brexit immigration system is long overdue. But coming so late in the day, with such uncertainty continuing about what Brexit will look like, much of what’s being proposed feels quite surreal. The UK’s immigration system is …
Arkady Babchenko: sting or stunt – the surreal fake murder of a Russian journalist: When Kiev’s police chief announced the assassination of the well-known Russian journalist, Arkady Babchenko, on Ukrainian state television, the terrible news was taken at face value and fingers were immediately pointed at the Kremlin. The former soldier in the Chechen wars …
How punk and Thatcherism came together in the surreal ZX Spectrum Pimania craze: Shever/Flickr, CC BY-SA Listeners tuning in to Portsmouth’s independent station Radio Victory, late at night in 1977, would have found themselves confronted with a mysterious electronic squeal. It sounded more like a transmitter malfunction or cat-like yawl than a music show. And …