As 16-year-old Cemeren Yilmaz begged for his life, his attackers filmed him and posted the video to Snapchat. The murder was callous, utterly pointless – and representative of so many of the UK’s knife crime deaths. (Vice) Continue reading →

Steven Van Zandt chats to me about his various life roles, from the E Street Band to playing Silvio on ‘The Sopranos’. Oh, and he talks Brexit too. (Vice) Continue reading →

Also known as “The Baby Maker”, mamajuana is a rejuvenating tea traditionally made with herbs, tree bark, and the 12-inch penis of a sea turtle. (Vice) Continue reading →

Ed Farmer’s tragic death after a pub crawl is not the first time a British student has died after some kind of university induction. (Vice) Continue reading →

As New York moves toward legal recreational cannabis, the failure to enact nationwide reforms is becoming more glaring. (Vice) Continue reading →

Jack Renshaw recently admitted that he had intended to murder Labour politician Rosie Cooper with a 19-inch machete, to “send the state a message”. (Vice) Continue reading →

Silence is golden, and a little boring. (Vice) Continue reading →

The $15 million facility will have 25,000 plants producing 10,000 pounds of marijuana a year. (Vice) Continue reading →

Five female porn stars have died within the last three months. At the AVN Awards, there was a strange mix of acknowledgment and carrying on with business as usual. (Vice) Continue reading →

Stories from the paparazzi-stalked Camden boozer where Amy Winehouse was renowned for hopping behind the bar to pull pints. (Vice) Continue reading →

Black metal yoga, the Institute of Mentalphysics, hippies – surely the only thing separating the two is the weather. (Vice) Continue reading →

Ian Watkins’ crimes were a new type of appalling, yet he managed to keep offending for four years after complaints were made to police. (Vice) Continue reading →

With new album ‘A Deeper Understanding’ the War on Drugs frontman has mastered the art of riding out his anxiety, emerging on the other side. (Vice) Continue reading →

PillReports has been keeping ecstasy users safe for 18 years. (Vice) Continue reading →

Kim Edwards and her boyfriend, Lucas Markham, were sentenced to life for the murder of Edwards’ mother and sister. (Vice) Continue reading →

Why Damon Smith wasn’t labelled a terrorist by the courts. (Vice) Continue reading →

What the young Syrian learned trying to become a pro footballer in the UK. (Vice) Continue reading →

After a night out with friends, a young woman disappeared. When police apprehended the suspect, he led them to another body. (Vice) Continue reading →

The Italian invited a policeman to his London flat for a chemsex party, strangled him, chopped him up and, inspired by ‘Breaking Bad’, tried to dissolve him in acid. (Vice) Continue reading →

Burnt out by Britpop and a failure to break America, 20 years ago Blur were disintegrating, but somehow they wrote their biggest song, and one of the best LPs of their career. (Vice) Continue reading →

Steal NOS and sell it in balloons at a rave, and you’ve made £700 of pure profit, so it’s no wonder thefts are on the rise. (Vice) Continue reading →

A new bill banning any and all “psychoactive substances” was the direct result of a moral panic started by the red tops. (Vice) Continue reading →

And spent an afternoon snorting angina medication. (Vice) Continue reading →

Love is accused of hacking US systems but says he will appeal the extradition decision. (Vice) Continue reading →

After final arguments this week, a UK judge will rule in September whether Love is to be extradited to the US. (Vice) Continue reading →

I went to Rome’s Suburra, which gives its name to a new modern-day Mafia film, to find out. (Vice) Continue reading →

Take Back The City want to scrap the Met, introduce rent caps and bring back EMA on a crowd-sourced platform for election to London’s Assembly. (Vice) Continue reading →

Kim Barker, author of Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, tells me what it’s like to have your experiences in Afghanistan turned into a Hollywood blockbuster. (Vice) Continue reading →

The writer made a rare public appearance in Paris to talk about his new book ‘Zero K’. (Vice) Continue reading →

The creator of Gorillaz and Tank Girl talks me through it. (Vice) Continue reading →

I visited the ‘Withnail & I’ writer and director at his Herefordshire farmhouse to talk about his life and his new book ‘They All Love Jack: Busting The Ripper’. (Vice) Continue reading →

Men often think of themselves as lone wolves. As we get older and life inevitably starts flinging shit at us, we might start to wonder whether there’s a reason most wolves hunt in packs. (Vice) Continue reading →

El Suchi roll up with a wooden donkey cart, some amps, and a shit load of frustration. (Vice) Continue reading →

“We would like to build a generation who, when they have some incentive to shoot each other, will say: ‘No, let’s have a beer instead.'” (Vice) Continue reading →

All the opinions, from Greek rappers and party kids, to Sleaford Mods and Ratking. (Vice) Continue reading →

A new feature film, The Connection, looks at the life of notorious French drug trafficker Gaëtan Zampa. I went to Marseilles to meet his daughter. (Vice) Continue reading →

The LA Confidential author’s new project is a non-fiction book that looks back, again, at policing in LA during the 1950s – but through the lens of harrowing crime scene photos taken at the time. (Vice) Continue reading →

Chatting to the Lost & Found line-up about this potential new paradise. (Vice) Continue reading →

For $25, you can take a tour of the porn studio, its dungeons and its impressive dildo stock rooms. (Vice) Continue reading →

Now that America and Cuba are friends again, Havana’s “jineteros” are going to be spoilt for choice for wealthy American wives. (Vice) Continue reading →

Investigatory Powers Tribunals are where you complain if you think the government is spying on you. They’re usually held behind closed doors but this year a few select public hearings have taken place, so I went to check one out. (Vice) Continue reading →

A travel guide featuring: pork, anarchists, bicycles, politicians, fishermen, racists, tear gas, cocaine, pizzas, techno, beer, football fans, bands and waiters. (Vice) Continue reading →

They somehow manage to be stupid, funny and sad all at the same time. (Vice) Continue reading →

Pablo Escobar’s old estate is now a weird Jurassic Park-themed zoo (Vice) Continue reading →

Which isn’t bad, considering they tried to throw us out. (Vice) Continue reading →

A night of “immersive theatre” in London just left me immersed in regret. (Vice) Continue reading →

“I had this anger pent up inside of me. That’s why the music I make now is so dark. Music, in a sense, saved me from going even deeper into that road life”. (Vice) Continue reading →

And he’s done it all by writing songs about things like poop. (Vice) Continue reading →