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Front cover of Pull Down The Shades: Garage Fanzine 1984-86 - Tales From The New Zealand Music Underground by Richard Langston
Of Oysters, Obsessives, and Finding the Sound
by David Kilgour
I may have made first contact with Richard when I was living in Christchurch, about to return to Dunedin after a stint in the Great Unwashed.

One of the anti-Kremlin groups responsible for an armed incursion into Russia this week, the Russian Volunteer Corps, is led by a far-right extremist described by German officials and humanitarian groups, including the Anti-Defamation League, as a neo-Nazi.The Volunteer Corps, made up of Russians who oppose Vladimir V. Putin's war, does not have any public affiliation with the Ukrainian Army.

The public has been urged to avoid using the water and beaches within Poole Harbour in Dorset after an oil leak led to a major incident being declared.Poole Harbour Commissioners (PHC), which regulates activities in the harbour, said a leak occurred at a pipeline operated by gas company Perenco, under Owers Bay, on Sunday.

Ever since Ursula K. Le Guin and Edward Abbey lit the fuse back in the 1970s, there's been an ever-growing explosion of political eco-fiction.From Octavia Butler and Richard Powers to Amitav Ghosh and Margaret Atwood, novelists have gotten more and more fascinated with those who fight to save the environment.

Three Conservative MPs have been condemned after attending a conference hosted by the populist Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orban, along with representatives from a series of hard right and far-right European parties.Veteran backbenchers Sir Edward Leigh, Sir Christopher Chope and Ian Liddell-Grainger were pictured in Budapest alongside Orban and members of other populist or far-right parties including Belgium's Vlaams Belang, Spain's Vox and the Sweden Democrats.

A major incident has been declared after barrels of reservoir fluid leaked into the water in Poole Harbour.The leak occured at a pipeline operated by Perenco, Poole Harbour Commissioners (PHC) said on Sunday.Reservoir fluid can include types of oil and the PHC has activated its oil spill plan in response.