Once again, Grace Dent has written the kind of column that should have all intelligent people running around the room cheering and air-punching. I had only made it as far as this paragraph: Sotomayor spent 2010 transforming judicial thought on the “right to remain silent”, while Gaga was probably dancing about a stadium – nips [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘anarchy’
Tuesday 4 May 2010
May madness
So it is decision time. Not for me, of course, mine has already gone in the post which means, as it does for Mr Vowl, that I can ignore all the wittering and squarking of the next two days in favour of (hopefully) more meaningful discourse. But in case you are not so fortunate as to be able to [...]
Thursday 22 April 2010
All that scratchin’ is makin’ me itch
I get a continued kick out of the fact that one of the most popular posts on this here ten minutes hate of mine continues to be the one called ‘stop being a sap!’ which features Joe Strummer’s words about taking control of your life and creating something for yourself. Malcolm McLaren, whose funeral took [...]
Wednesday 26 August 2009
Fighting fire with fire
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that police acted in self-defence in Genoa but the family of killed protestor Carlo Giuliani have been awarded damages because of the Italian state’s failure to hold a proper inquiry into the planning and management of the police operation at the summit, the BBC reports today. It [...]
Monday 8 June 2009
Stop being a sap!
Yes, you read that right. Release your inner anarchist in a Sid Vicious meets Agyness Deyn ensemble That sound you can hear is either Sid spinning in his grave or me banging my head against a wall, I’m not sure which will be louder from where you are. I can’t help thinking that it would [...]
Sunday 3 May 2009
Anarchy in the UK
From fashion magazine Plastique comes news that: Ever present bold costume jewellery and statement shoes are paired this season with an anarchic attitude and the desire for change. Take a stand. Be counted. I’m a woman. A woman who likes clothes. A woman who sometimes looks good in clothes. Yet I read the above and, [...]
Thursday 2 April 2009
Riot of my own
There were riots in Northern Ireland earlier this month. As the news showed pictures of balaclava-wearing youths with petrol bombs in their hands, I thought ‘how old fashioned’ – as if this kind of thing had died out a long time ago. You knew that our rulers thought they would never see the like again: [...]
Sunday 8 March 2009
Bastards
You can look back to the thirties and forties and think how much easier it was then, when the bad guys wore the hooked cross so lusted over by the toffs and the good guys were the ones who were against those guys, by whatever means were available to them. Yet a look beneath the [...]
