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I woke up so depressed on Tuesday morning," says Katharine Hamnett - evenly, quietly, the way she says everything. "I felt like killing myself, and then I thought, 'Actually, I'm going to launch a political party.'" I look for a trace of irony, and although she is - contrary to popular stereotype - entirely capable of humour, dry and pointed, and possessed of a generous capacity for fun, she is not, just now, being ironic. At all. On Easter Monday she attended the CND march at Aldermaston, wearing ("under about 25 layers", because of the cold) one of two T-shirts she designed for the occasion - Education not Trident, and NHS not Trident - and, atop a flatbed truck, gave a three-minute speech at five of the facility's gates. Today, sitting in an east London bar, she gets out a big hardback notebook containing emphatic scribbles about investment returns on education as opposed to Trident (she says up to 10.8% on £100bn, simply from the higher taxes paid by better-educated people, as opposed to "some outdated warheads and some rusty, very expensive submarines"); the needy vanity of having nuclear weapons ("there's a huge amount of testosterone involved in the nuclear [power] … Fukushima's probably the ultimate orgasm, isn't it? It just goes on and on"). Later she will list the far-reaching health and agricultural ramifications of the accident in Japan, describe the PR muscle at energy company EDF, list the ex-cabinet ministers and their relations who have taken jobs relating to the nuclear industry … It was the march, and the fact that it still had to happen in 2013, plus the fact that the government is not only committed to renewing Trident, but is intending to do so while making such savage cuts to the welfare state, that made her feel so depressed. Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/fashion/2013/apr/06/katharine-hamnett-testosterone-nuclear-power

http://news.gnom.es/news/someone-should-probably-tell-new-superman-people-live-in-buildings-a-review-of-man-of-steel "Aw, Superman, come back. We promise we won't stare at your pen*s anymore. These aliens are really strong." If you're debating whether to catch Man of Steel and are on a time-crunch, let me save you a pile of nerd words and say, yes, go see it. Because even though it's not quite the Superman movie people have been hoping for after Superman Returns, and I'm about to nitpick the hell out of it, it does start out full of promise and potential that you almost don't completely zone out once the whole thing becomes a CGI pinball game with characters loosely resembling the ones you saw earlier played by actors. It's also not quite the well-crafted reboot Batman Begins was, despite huge similarities thanks to sharing the same writer and Christopher Nolan producing, but it does come close before Zach Snyder basically goes, "Eh, that's enough stories. Just throw him at sh*t." Related post: http://newport-international-group-runway.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page http://syosset.patch.com/groups/announcements/p/newport-international-group-article-reviews--instagram-mode http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/95662-newport-international-group-runaway Related Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO1HL2UG0Wg&feature=youtu.be