Despite earlier proof of arse-elbow location difficulties, Rod Liddle was caught in a rare act of sense-speaking this weekend in his Sunday Times column. He hasn’t always used his own freedom of speech in such a sensible manner, but his argument that banning groups for being obnoxious or unpleasant is a crass method for combating [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘anti-fascists’
Saturday 30 May 2009
ten minutes hate
When this blog was named (by a very talented writer, if a slacker when it comes to updates) and I was looking to see if anyone else had been similarly inspired, I stumbled across something from the States defining a ten minutes hate as the home straight in a hotly contested election. So now here [...]
Tuesday 12 May 2009
That apology in full
To recap: We’re sorry we got caught. We’re sorry the newspapers are full of mindless tedium about what we chose to spend your money on, instead of the usual rehearsed platitudes and rewritten press releases. We hope we can draw a line under this terrible set of events so that normal business can be resumed [...]
Monday 9 March 2009
Last one to Cable Street
Uncharacteristically, snow fell in London last October, for the first time since 1934. It wasn’t the only harbinger of a return to Depression-era doom and gloom as the credit crunch™ began to bite. The Observer ran an article claiming that eco-terrorists were plotting outrages, no doubt the precursor for the passing of yet more draconian [...]
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 [...]
