In Nineteen-Eighty-Four, there are “whispered stories of a terrible book, a compendium of all the heresies,” known simply as the Book, written by the number one enemy of the state, Goldstein, that reveals how the population is living in a nightmarish world of surveillance and control. On the boat across the…

In the summer of 2017, I saw the Russian artist Alexander Art standing in the performance circle outside Tate Modern wearing a sign that read “Tate Modern destroys works of art!” He was getting a bollocking from a Southwark council warden as the gallery’s security looked on. The warden said the artist, who…

I read this article about augmented perception. One thing I liked about it was the guys who weren’t doing it for any monetary gain, they were just doing it for the experience. They’d devised chips that they implanted in themselves to give them different perceptions. One of them fitted into your sternum, and…

“It’s one man, one vote, quite literally, Jim.” “The one man who will be casting a ballot to decide the next President of the United States is actor Christopher Walken.” “After a six-month ordeal that has brought the U.S. political system to the brink of ridicule, Christopher Walken has entered the Supreme…

"I want your dick to be hard, but I also want you to be thinking and feeling things," says Stoya... LEV PARKER: Hello, I'm in the Satanic massage parlour that I call my house. STOYA: Amazing. LP: I’ve got a red lightbulb to attract weirdos and creeps. What does it say on your mug? S: “Congratulations, slut…

The case that was to become the most disturbing example of British healthcare abuse in recent times started to unravel at 5.47 am on a Tuesday morning in April 2018. Leonard Parkin, an 85-year-old World War II veteran, was awake with the central heating on, faintly expectant of a visit from somebody, although…

Like an old travelling band, Insecure Men brought their suits on coat hangers. Although with my Satanic priest outfit that I will wear to introduce the band each night, I am the only one, besides Saul and his corpse pallor, with anything that resembles a Halloween costume. We stand outside Dropout Studios at…

On Holloway Road in north London is the black door of Ram Books, a smut emporium with over 100,000 vintage titles. This astonishing place became A Void magazine’s power centre when we upscaled our priorities to cater for obscene tastes. As much a museum as it is a shop, the most peculiar thing about Ram Books…

What is obscenity? At law, obscenity is an article which has a certain tendency to deprave and corrupt. Juries have to interpret that, along with current societal values, in order to establish what is or isn’t obscene. What obscenities do the police look for nowadays? Before the CPS’s Obscene Publications Act…

In March 2019, around twenty people met in a townhouse to compete in the London edition of the Edible Book Festival. The spirit of the event is whimsical and joyous, a chance to celebrate the comedy of language, and the imaginations and craftsmanship of the entrants, who prepare food items made to look, sound…

In his later years Charles Manson was grey and frail, squat like a hobbit from hell, and still breaking prison rules. He had access to illegal cell phones, a supply of LSD, and when his girlfriend Star came to visit, he had an arrangement with the guards that allowed him to finger her pussy under the table…

Like the great artists of past generations, I compromise my artistic integrity by whoring myself out for commissions from more powerful people in society. Renaissance painters’ clients were usually the clergy, and they were interfering bastards who rejected work for being too realistic or insufficiently…

Shamanic communism is the theory and practice of disalienation conjured up by ultra-left sex witches who organise themselves into affinity groups that are known collectively as the International Communist Coven (ICC). Communist sex witches believe that the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism will entail not…

A few years ago my friend and I had arrived early to a fashion show at a small vintage shop, and I was telling him about this great book I was reading called Necrophilia Variations by an authorial entity known only as Supervert, who appears to be based in New York City and employed as a philosophy professor…

One of the ultimate scenesters and a personal hero of mine, Tom Vague started writing and publishing VAGUE magazine in 1979 as a "provincial punk" in Salisbury. Like me and my first press card, he used the photocopied fanzine as a ticket backstage to meet his favourite bands---for Tom that was Adam and the…

A few years ago I was at some East London publishing fair when a scary-looking bloke in a Harrington jacket jumped out from behind a display board, handed me a glossy magazine and said, "Here you go, mate, try this," then walked off. The publication he gave me had the word "SHITLER" printed on the front cover…