Julia Smith is away. So amuse yourselves in the Archives and also, catch up on the following essential articles: Godfrey Hodgson’s ‘The great American refusal’, discusses the controversy over the passing of the heathcare-reform bill in the context of American history since the Civil Rights Movement. Disillusioned with the UK election? Give your vote to [...]
Entries from March 2010
Friday 26 March 2010
Heart – Write Now Festival 2010
If modern life is rubbish with its shit discos, credit cards to clear and mates you secretly hate, then City living is sometimes even worse: Londoners dressed like schoolkids in their identical suits, a journey to work straight out of Dante and the endless competition for best home, best job and best girl. Still, if [...]
Wednesday 24 March 2010
Julia fixes Parliament!
You guys, I just thought of something! There’s MILLIONS of us right? Must be at least a few that are hacked off with all this corruption. So why don’t we all throw a quid in the pot until we’ve got a couple of grand and then we can buy our VERY OWN MP. They’ll have [...]
Tuesday 23 March 2010
Politics drops its drawers
The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation – Lord Halifax, 1750 It is difficult to judge how far the effect of this latest scandal extends outside Westminster. I suspect that many people had their suspicions confirmed, before shrugging their shoulders and getting on with their days, while supporters of [...]
Sunday 21 March 2010
Hate Highlights – 21 March
Some posts you may have missed on ten minutes hate this week: Suffer, little children on the treatment being handed out to the most vulnerable asylum-seekers Roll up, roll up… looked on in dismay at yet another drug panic Computer love on action you can take to stop the Government messing with our interweb And [...]
Saturday 20 March 2010
Computer love
The internet has taken an awful lot of flak lately, accused of all sorts from murder to drug dealing via rampant piracy. It is little wonder that our brave Government feels the need to rush in and DO SOMETHING before the evil being emitted by our Netbooks and iPads swamps the earth. As even casual [...]
Wednesday 17 March 2010
Roll up, roll up…
… we haven’t had a good drug panic for a few years*, so it was obviously slightly overdue. Hearing the calls for a ban on mephedrone instantly recalled the Simpson’s Maude Flanders: There is also a delicious irony, which you should join me in enjoying immensely, as the report from the Advisory Council on the [...]
Tuesday 16 March 2010
Suffer, little children
If you should find yourself musing on the immigration question this election-tide and wondering if we are, in fact, in danger of being swamped, seen as a soft touch or provider of free swan burgers to all the world’s poor and huddled masses, reassure yourself with this story: M was arrested, and locked up in [...]
Monday 15 March 2010
We have a winner!
Mr Eb Ward wins for his comment comparing Mary Wollstonecraft, original feminist, to Kenneth Wolstenholme: I reckon she would too, the slapper. We only remember her because she commented on the 1966 World Cup Final anyway. Get in touch to claim your prize, sir!
Saturday 13 March 2010
Hate Highlights – 13 March
Here’s the best of ten minutes hate from this week: Using Slang in a Second Language – Eb Ward takes an uncomfortable bus journey One for the girls – celebrated Kathryn Bigelow’s Oscar win Predictable outrage outrages predictably – despaired at the world Some animals are more equal – listened to the MPs squeal A [...]
