InternetReddit’s r/WatchPeopleDie sees 425,000 subscribers share clips of horrific and tragic deaths. Since when did so many of us like watching death?
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Is it disingenuous that the name of the Reddit communityr/WatchPeopleDie uses the word die?
Put it this way: the people in the videos and GIFs shared on Watch People Die do not merely die. Neither do they pass away (too polite), nor go to a better place (too peaceful). Read More...
CrimeMother guilty of murdering daughtersRekha Kumari-Baker found guilty of stabbing teenage daughters to death as they slept in their bedsA mother who killed her teenage daughters while they slept, stabbing one of them 39 times, has been convicted of murder.
Davina Baker, 16, and Jasmine Baker, 13, were killed in a frenzied attack at their home in Stretham, Cambridgeshire, in June 2007.
The court heard that Rekha Kumari-Baker, who had taken her girls on a shopping trip to the Lakeside centre in Essex that day, killed her children to " Read More...
Sean O'Hagan on photographyPhotographySkinheads: a photogenic, extremist corner of British youth cultureWith their short hair and swastikas offsetting neat clothes, the skinheads who street photographer Derek Ridgers found roaming UK youth culture in the late-70s made a virtue of visual and social disruption Shooting skinheads: Derek Ridgers captures a cult – in pictures
If you are old enough to remember London in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Derek Ridgers' new book Skinheads 1979-1984 is a reminder of the latent aggression that defined youth culture in the capital, and sometimes made the journey home by night bus and tube train a risky business. Read More...