Burns is a card-carrying member of the Labour party, but says he has lots of friends who see it as "mainstream" to set up a pretend hospital in a bank, and have become involved in UK Uncut.
Though he made his first piece for them at just 21, Alston again turned away from the mainstream to set up the country's first alternative contemporary dance group, Strider.
Max Mosley, the boss of Formula One motor racing, was fighting for his professional life last night after eight racing teams, including McLaren and Ferrari, said they intended to break away from the sport's mainstream and set up a rival series instead.
The Muslims, in turn, agree that they are now the majority in Papua a local Hizb-ut-Tahrir leader recently claimed that Papua is 65% Muslim but they feel that Papuan autonomy could lead to them being discriminated against or even expelled from the region.There are some moderating influences: last year, mainstream Muslims set up a new body, the Papuan Muslim Council, to put the case for tolerance.
Cenk Uygur of the Young Turks argues that the Tea Party and the ostensibly more mainstream Republicans set up a very effective good cop/bad cop negotiating strategy in which the Democrats would offer cuts and the mainstream Republicans would say, "I'd like to help you, really I would, but you know my partner isn't going to like that".
In Heinersdorf, a poor area of east Berlin, there was uproar when Ahmaddiya Muslims from Pakistan, a group which mainstream Islam eschews, set up a mosque.
He said he always had an "instinct" that small satellites would have an important role in space, but admitted that, when SSTL was set up, mainstream development "seemed an awfully long way off".
But instead of aligning herself with any mainstream group, Toksvig has helped set up a new political party: the Women's Equality party.
Politically speaking, Belgian Muslim's have up to now kept a relatively low profile, preferring to join mainstream political parties rather than set up their own parties on strictly religious grounds.
If blockchain technologies are ever to go mainstream, governments will have to set up new legal frameworks to accommodate such complexities.
