Linder, whose solo exhibition at opened at London’s Stuart Shave/Modern Art on Friday, is a pioneer punk artist, radical feminist, Morrissey’s muse, and, according to some in the art world, ‘the missing link between Yoko Ono and Tracey Emin’. Up close her visuals are quite astounding. The exhibition traces her career through photography, porn meshed with domestic appliances collage, and her most recent work - huge and beautiful photomontage. The artist, who once entertained the Hacienda with a version of Too Hot to Handle, performed in a costume made of raw meat and a black dildo, has lost none of her ability to garrotte an audience.

If you're in the mood to experience something more thought provoking than donning a witch's hat to play trick or treat this Halloween (and you're in London) you may want to book yourself into see The Investigation. Showing for just 10 days at the Young Vic theatre, this play, by renowned German playwright, Peter Weiss, is commonly regarded as the most influential play on the Holocaust. Now, the Young Vic explains, 'just thirteen years after their own holocaust', the play is to be staged across Europe by a company of actors from Rwanda – and these are the only UK performances.

As London Fashion Week sashays into another crisp September, it does so for the first time in twenty years, without the glorious, the notorious Isabella Blow. Starting out as an assistant to Anna Wintour in 1981, Blow, always attired in some eccentrically beautiful hat, was an integral presence in the fashion world – she bought up McQueen’s first collection, discovered Sophie Dahl and was muse to Philip Treacy. Blow died in May and a tribute was held this week. In her life, Lee Lapthorne, creative director of On/Off explains, she was ‘a living icon and ambassador for new talent’: inquisitive, inspired and one of a kind.

Canadian journalist Naomi Klein (pictured at her desk), is well known for her distaste for capitalism, now she has turned her probing eye to the war in Iraq. With the help of director, Alfonso Cuaron ( Children of Men), she has produced a terse 6-minute short, on the history of American electro shock, to help promote her new book, Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Introducing extracts in her Guardian column, Klein gives a taste of what's inside: 'It's a tried-and-tested torture technique: strike fear into your victims, deprive them of cherished essentials and then eradicate their memories. In 2003, the US applied this on an enormous scale for its invasion of Iraq.' Explosive stuff - whether you agree or not.

Check out the short film The Shock Doctrine

Ever since Orwell penned his dystopic masterwork, 1984, there has been a fear of society 'sleepwalking' into a state where 'Big Brother is watching you'. Britons are already among the most watched citizens in the world, there are over 4.2 million CCTV cameras nationwide - one for every 14 people. But now, a new trend in the Big Brother society threatens to emerge, as the British police seek powers to take DNA samples from people caught littering, speeding and fare dodging - along with other non-imprisonable offences. It seems,  in the UK, we're not so much 'sleepwalking'
 into a Big Brother society as bulldozing straight towards it.

This Friday, 27 July, is the 40th anniversary of the legalisation of homosexuality in England and Wales. But in many countries and cultures around the world, the gay community continues to suffer prejudice and discrimination. In Jamaica, attacks on gay people are common, gay sex is illegal and the country's dancehall and reggae artists often preserve such homophobic attitudes in their lyrics. So it's great news that Buju Banton has followed in the footsteps of Beenie Man and Sizzla in signing the reggae compassionate act, which states 'There's no space in the music community for hatred and prejudice, including no place for racism, violence, sexism or homophobia.

Vivienne Westwood's bravura performance at the Hay-on-Wye Literary festival is already notorious - and not just in the fashion world. Bringing her cultural manifesto to the staid bookworms of the 'Woodstock of the mind' (as Bill Clinton dubbed the event), the grande-dame of British fashion cleared her tent with a virtuoso display of the very eclecticism which has made her designs iconic.
Sitting regally before her audience in bright orange chignon and thick-rimmed glasses, Westwood assaulted the notion that art is subjective - through puppet show.  “If there is 'no art' there is 'no progress'.” She declared, “We must find [art] out; go in search of her!”  The crowd may have left in sniffy bafflement, but don't all prophets outrage the punters?

Read or Listen to Westwood's Active Resistance to Propaganda manifesto.