Some posts you might have missed on ten minutes hate this week: As News International breathed fire at those seeking to challenge its anointed representative, I urged you to disobey Rupert Murdoch on Election Day Giving out free stuff is clearly one way to get a good write-up… The ‘I love migrants’ campaign aimed at [...]
Entries from April 2010
Wednesday 28 April 2010
Alan Sillitoe, 1928-2010
Alan Sillitoe died last week and when I heard the news, my first reaction was sorrow. Not for Mr Sillitoe himself, but for us, left to negotiate without him a system that is still trying to beat us down, as much as it did when Arthur Seaton roamed Nottingham. Seaton, the anti-hero of ‘Saturday Night and [...]
Monday 26 April 2010
A free press
After writing yesterday of the Independent’s Murdoch-baiting, you could bet that I wasn’t going to be a slouch when I heard and saw the lovely lady dishing out free copies of the paper in my city centre this lunchtime. Oh no. I was over to her quicker than Tsegaye Kebede, ready to see for myself. [...]
Sunday 25 April 2010
Disobey on 6 May
Watching the Dailies Mail, Telegraph, Express and the Sun spew rage-fuelled invective across their own front pages this week has been wonderfully exhilarating. That their attempts to slur Nick Clegg prior to the second leaders’ debate amounted to little more than, in Tabloid Watch’s memorable description, ‘hysterical bawlings from the sidelines’ caused the warm glow [...]
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 21 April 2010
None of the above
Bless ‘em, it seems as if the ‘traditional media’ are struggling to cope with the vagaries of electioneering in these modern interconnectivity-driven times. First the formerly ‘great ignored’ Nick Clegg gets a 10-point bunk up due largely to appearing on the gogglebox and not coming across as a complete twat. Then all hell breaks loose, [...]
Tuesday 20 April 2010
I love Migrants
Remember when I wrote this post about the French campaign, a day without immigrants? Well, along with fish and chips, chicken jalfrezi and our own Royal family, this is yet another bloody good idea to make it to Britain from foreign shores. The ‘I love migrants’ campaign has been developed by the Joint Council for the Welfare of [...]
Thursday 15 April 2010
Don’t buy the Scum
The first thing that always causes the pit of my stomach to hollow out when I read down the list of names of those that died at Hillsborough, twenty-one years ago today, is the ages. About two-thirds of the names are kids in their teens, although the youngest – Jon-Paul Gilhooley at just 10 - is of a [...]
Wednesday 14 April 2010
A good election to lose
There are still whole weeks to go and already my main thought when I consider the election is: make it stopmake it stopmake it stopmake it stopmake it stopmake it stopmake it stopmake it stop Slightly more than a week since I urged you to ignore the parties’ bells and whistles and concentrate on what [...]
Tuesday 13 April 2010
‘…even crack dens glow…’
This is beautiful, just beautiful: Last month I installed new bookshelves in a room in my house. They’re black, and my painter offered the unsolicited opinion that they might look depressing when completed. I knew he was wrong because, at the very least, the paperback shelf couldn’t help but have a cheerful orange zing a [...]
