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Food poverty is an outrage enabled by ignorance.
You’ve probably seen the photos by now. The measly portion of cheese; the tuna bunched up in a plastic bag. Whole peppers have been halved and carrots divvied up into stubs. There’s something deeply sickening about it. It can sometimes be difficult to summon up the motivation to stay consistently informed and angry about UK…
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inertia fm: december
The tree and tinsel are up at inertia HQ for December’s edition of our monthly radio feature. You’re probably sick of Christmas tunes by this point so we’ve kept them to a minimum, stuffing the playlist instead with some glorious picks of what we’ve been listening to lately. Tuck in! Charlie’s Picks Idris Muhammed –…
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(We need to talk about) flights.
It seems like a lifetime ago now, but there was a time back in January of this year where coronavirus was merely a distant blip on our radars: subject to only a passing, casual mention on the nightly news. Instead of images of face masks and microscopic pathogens our attention was turned toward the Land…
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Movie Mondays – Election
High school movies. We’ve all seen them. We know their tell-tale signs, their signature tropes. The typical cliques haven’t really changed much since the genre came into being back in the 50s: there’s the jocks in their letterman jackets, the nerds carrying stacks of books that beg to be knocked over by said jocks and…
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inertia fm: november
The radio waves are once again beaming from the inertia fm transmission tower as we broadcast to you our curation of tunes for the month of November. There’s plenty of tasty songs to go around so hook up your preferred speaker and get soaked in some hand picked sounds. Ewan’s Picks Alex G- Forever Alex…
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Movie Mondays – Saint Maud
As a general rule for life, if ex-Love Island contestant Molly-Mae says that she doesn’t like something then it ought to be worth checking out. The reality TV star landed herself in hot water on Twitter last month with a scathing review of Italian food whilst on a holiday to Venice. “The food is actually…
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Trump is a mould that can’t be so easily scrubbed away.
If you’re a political nerd like me, elections are always an exciting affair: they’re an excuse to pull an all-nighter and hunker down in the living room, splitting your attention between the holy trinity of the television, laptop and phone. This year didn’t quite go to plan. I settled in on the settee and cracked…
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inertia fm: october
Moving into mid-Autumn the days may well be getting shorter but we’ve still found the time to source some eclectic selections for you to check out in our monthly playlist. Tune into inertia.fm and check out the post below for some choice cuts of Charlie and Ewan’s favourites. Charlie’s Picks BENEE – Glitter I’ll throw…
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Aberdeen’s high street is withering on the vine.
On my last count walking down the length of Union Street, I tallied 30 empty retail units. With their whitewashed windows and big, imposing ‘TO LET’ signs protruding above them, taken together they tell a story of a high street that has taken a proper hammering. Junk mail collects behind their dusty glass doors. ‘MAY…
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The internet is dead. Long live the internet.
From a Scottish perspective, I can’t imagine a place so culturally opposite, so fundamentally different in weather and attitude than the 90s in Silicon Valley. The place served as a focal point for big ideas, with tech visionaries and computer wizzes swarming to the San Francisco Bay Area and dreaming up all kinds of software-based…
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