The answers aren’t easy but everyone has their hands up

New on Lucid Magazine this month...

New Labour’s education record is patchy but are the coalition’s reforms asking the right questions? Athena Kugblenu attends a RSA debate to see for herself.

http://www.lucidpolitics.co.uk/2010/09/16/answers-arent-easy-hands/

The event:

In September 2010, BBC Two presents a major season on education, focusing on our schools, the tough choices parents have to make and whether we could all do better.Join the RSA and the BBC for a debate to explore the issues further and to ask - where next for our children’s education? Speakers: Professor Dylan Wiliam - Deputy Director of the Institute of Education and presenter of The Classroom Experiment (a BBC production), Toby Young - journalist and contributor to Start Your Own School (a Renegade Pictures production), Amanda Blue - series director and producer of The Big School Lottery series (a Blast Films production), and Sir William Atkinson - Executive Headteacher of Phoenix High School.Chair: Matthew Taylor, Chief executive, RSA

I went to V Festival so you dont have to

Athena Kugblenu went to V Festival against the advice of friend and lived to regret it.

V Festival review in summary:

Like: reasonably priced food, Tinie Tempah, Doves, Skunk Anansie, surprisingly decent portaloos and Plan B.

Disliked: being urinated on.

Read her full review of V Festival here.

Damian Marley and Nas Hammersmith Apollo Gig Review

Athena Kugblenu reviews the Distant Relatives show, with Damian Marley and Nas plus support from Akala and Dadid Rodigan.

July Extras

Recently published on Lucid Magazine:


'In the Middle Ages books were rare, and so was honesty. A book, it was said, was worth as much as a farm; unlike a farm, it was portable property that could easily be purloined. Books, therefore, were kept under lock and key.’

Canon B H Streeter, The Chained Library, 1931














Lucy Graham visits an English chained library with a centuries old tradtion that remains in place today.

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Ghana's Black Stars were the most successful African team in South Africa. Athena Kugblenu reviews Football Fables, a Baff Akoto documentary that sheds light on the background of the youngest team in the 2010 World Cup.

Lucid Magazine July Update

Lucid Magazine July Update

Lucid Magazine June Update

Athena Kugblenu reviews Good Hair, Chris Rock's documentary on the black hair industry

In case you missed it, the World Cup kicks off in South Africa this week. Sylvia Arthur says we should spare a thought for those players for whom bringing along their WAG was never an issue.


Paul Knipe writes about his visit to Ballycastle, Northern Ireland.

Burlesque, swaggering Victorian comedy, electronic music and an orchestra: James Willsher attends quite an evening. Read about it here.



Stephen Maughan revisits Romania as a children's charity volunteer, and finds charm and beauty in a city where Roma communities still suffer from state neglect.



Here's to enlightned reading...

Lucid Magazine

Lucid Magazine May Update

Welcome to Lucid Magazine's May Update

Our Special Focus this edition is Broken Britain. We're nation of pansies and NEETs. Discuss. Read our take on the state of the nation today.

The future's orange? Read James Willsher's take on Nick Clegg and the televised revolution.

Sylvia Arthur meets former Time 100 alum Ayaan Hirsi Ali to talk about Islam, feminism and living in exile.

Athena Kugblenu takes a theoretical look at Britain and it's search for an identity.

James Willsher takes a fresh look at The Lady, discussing the rebirth of a British institution.


Here's to enlightened reading

Lucid Magazine