Necessity Still Breeds Ingenuity - Archive of SQUALL MAGAZINE 1992-2006

'The State It's In'

Editorial and commentary from Squall central


Inside The Machine
The strange netherworld at the indifferent heart of a London borough council - June 2006

The Decline And Fall Of Footie
A visit to a recent non-league football match reveals just how low it goes - June 2005

Turning A Blind Eye
Despite the Govt rhetoric, UK arms sales to Israel continue apace - May 2004

Why I Should Keep My Job
George W Bush's Curriculum Vitae as he seeks re-election - Feb 2004

Is Iran Next?
Are the Neo-Cons now setting their sights on Iran? - Nov 2003

Regime Change Begins At Home
A quiz to see which country is the most belligerent rogue state... - Feb 2003

Culture Cash
Glastonbury Festival is being drawn into the clutches of corporatisation - June 2002

Raw Crime
Open heroin dealing in Easton, Bristol, and a Govt and police force incapable of addressing the causes - April 2002

Vulture Capitalism
Those ready to make a killing from the post-9-11 War On Terror - Oct 2001

The Final Solution - What Took So Long?
The US exploits international sympathy to plot military response - Sept 2001

Big SIS Is Watching You
Schengen Information Systems and the collusion of police across Europe following the G8 protests in Genoa - Sept 2001

There's A Riot Going On
Community squat in Brixton is busted, pre-empted by up-coming Mayday protests - April 2001

Pumped And Dumped On?
The petrol crisis, and oil companies screwing for more profit - Nov 2000

From The Ashes.....The Spirit Of Free Festival Arises
Free The Spirit Festival by Exodus Collective reignites the free festival spirit - Sept 2000

Poisoning In The Guerilla Garden
Mis-reporting of the 2000 London Mayday Reclaim The Streets at Parliament Square - June 2000

Smoke Signals
Cannabis and the gap between Govt policies and reality - April 2000

Dome Is Dead Donald Duck
Millennium Dome - the fin de siècle folly - Feb 2000

Blair's Britain Only Slightly Soiled / Blanking The Organic
Corporatised agri-business obliterating British farms - Oct 1999

Indoamnesia
Britain's history of supplying Indonesian regimes from Suharto onwards with arms - Sept 1999

U.S. Throws Lapdog Bone Of Contention
Britain plays along with US free-trade neo-liberalism hoping to get a slice - July 1999

Drugby Special
Media duplicity when it comes to media reports of recreational drug use - May 1999

Fat Mac And Fries
New reports confirm what we already know about health and fast foods - April 1999

A View From SQUALL Central
Take corporate interests out of the 'new' Labour equation and there is very little left. So much for 'the third way' - Squall 16 - June 1998

A View From SQUALL Central - Post Blair Election
The surreal morning after we'd finally got rid of the Tories - Squall 15 - Summer 1997

A View From SQUALL Central
With media, politics and advertising merging ever more concentrically, there is no longer any border control between PR, news-spin and truth. - Squall 14 - Autumn 1996

Fear Is The Most Prevalent Form Of Social Control
Fear of crime has been news-manufactured to a point where new measures of social control, however draconian, meet little opposition - Squall 13 - Summer 1996

Violence Is A Symptom
What's The Disease? Or... Is Peace A Luxury? - Squall 12 - Spring 1996

The State It's In - A View From SQUALL Central
The State is attacking traveller and festival culture by trying to destroy the alternative economy which underpins it - Squall 11 - Autumn 1995

Travels In A Political Arena
The ‘new politics of protest’ is now a phrase branded about regularly in the national media - Squall 10 - Summer 1995

Travels In A Political Arena
Aassessing the early impact of the Criminal Justice Act - Squall 9 - Winter (Jan/Feb) 1995

Travels In A Political Arena
The CJB has bumps in the road - Squall 8 - Autumn 1994

Stop Press - Start Pressing
Criminal Justice Bill delayed by amendments in House Of Lords. July/August 1994 - addition to Squall 7 - Summer 1994

The State It's In - CJB Nearly On The Statute Books
The CJB makes its final way through the House Of Lords - Squall 7 - Summer 1994

Travels In A Political Arena
The publishing of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill points to a bleak outlook for squatters, travellers, ravers, and protesters - Squall 6 - Spring 1994

Travels In A Political Arena
Is the media assault on travellers, festivals and squatters the harbinger of new repressive legislation? - Squall 5 - Oct-Nov 1993

Squatting: The Political Arena
The storm clouds gather for legislation against squatting and travellers - Squall 4 - April-May 1993