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Sepp Blatter to resign

“I will organise extraordinary congress for a replacement for me as president. I will not stand. I am now free from the constraints of an election. I will be in a position to focus on profound reforms. For many years we have called for reforms. But these are not sufficient.”

Sepp Blatter to resign as Fifa president after 17 years in role

Andrew Weatherall - RA470 Mix

Can you tell us about the idea behind the mix?
The idea was to sequence some records together without the joins being too apparent

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Frankie Boyle: What if David Cameron is an evil genius?

'The liberal backlash'?

Thomas Feiner & Fyfe Dangerfield - The Gospels

Instrumental version

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Mark Kozelek badmouths journalist Laura Snapes at London gig

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The professional trolls of Russia's Internet Research Agency

The Agency

Twitter conversation of the day

Mr Jones' hilarious pisstake being taken rather seriously by a couple of Americans
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If BDS isn’t a real threat, why does Netanyahu make it out to be such a big deal?

Domestic version?

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People killed by police in the US in 2015

The Counted

Sleep and the Teenage Brain

Iran’s 'Generation Normal'

Pop Grenade

An adrenalin-charged trip through some of the cultural flashpoints of the past few decades, Pop Grenade celebrates the power of music as a force for change. Based on first-hand, personal reportage from raves, riots and rebellions, it explores how music has been used as a weapon in struggles for liberation and attempts to create temporary paradises. From Berlin’s anarchic techno scene after the fall of the Wall to outlaw sound systems in wartime Bosnia, from Moscow during the crackdown on Pussy Riot to New York in the militant early years of hip-hop, it tells the extraordinary stories of some of the world’s most audacious musical freedom fighters, disco visionaries and rock’n’roll rebels with a cause
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