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Bandcamp bans AI generated music

Human creativity — The new policy applies to music created “wholly or in substantial part” using artificial intelligence tools, with its team reserving the right to remove any suspected tracks from the platform.

  • Music
  • Isaac Muk
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Clubbing is good for your health, according to neuroscientists

We Become One — A new documentary explores the positive effects that dance music and shared musical experiences can have on the human brain.

  • Music
  • Zahra Onsori

Resale tickets in UK to face price cap in touting crackdown

The move, announced today by the British government, will apply across sport, music and the wider live events industry.

  • News
  • Isaac Muk

How local campaigners won the battle to stop coal

September 2024 is the month that the UK’s addiction to coal finally ends. Coal Action Network campaigner Anne Harris explains how people power ended the dirtiest of all fossil fuels.

  • Activism
  • Anne Harris

We protected our community from a far right mob, here's what happened

As fascists descended on Bristol, hundreds of community members gathered to protect a local hotel housing asylum seekers.

  • Activism
  • Frankie Larsen

Autism cannot be cured — stop trying

A questionable study into the ‘reversal’ of autism does nothing but reinforce damaging stereotypes and harm, argues autistic author Jodie Hare.

  • Activism
  • Jodie Hare

How activists have fought back against the escalating housing crisis

The last five years have seen astronomical rises in rents, evictions and spiralling rates of homelessness but communities have been organising, fighting back and, whisper it, winning.

  • Election 2024
  • Micha Frazer-Carroll

I lost my home to crumbling cliffs – my coastal community is the canary in the coal mine

After Kevin Jordan was made homeless by climate change he began organising to try and make those in power take the thread of the crisis seriously.

  • Election 2024
  • Kevin Jordan

My journey through the immigration system shows things must change

Forced to live life under the radar, then locked in detention before finally getting a temporary right to remain after 24 years, Nico is urging the next government to bring kindness and compassion into Britain’s asylum system.

  • Election 2024
  • Nico, a refugee from Zimbabwe

The activists fighting the mental health crisis

Micha Frazer-Carroll examines the way the mental health crisis has escalated in the last five years and meets those organising to end it.

  • Election 2024
  • Micha Frazer-Carroll

I was made homeless 11 days after the Asylum decision I waited 16 years for

After spending years waiting for a decision on his refugee status torture survivor Gideon discovered his traumatic fight for security was far from over.

  • Election 2024
  • Gideon, a client at Freedom from Torture

Activists claim victory after major UK festivals drop Barclays as a sponsor

Groups and artists have been campaigning for Live Nation to drop the bank as a sponsor for Download, Latitude and Isle of Wight over alleged ties to the arms trade.

  • Activism
  • Ben Smoke

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