Sour Grapes (1998)

Four Days In July (1985)

Shit-kitters

God, was the new England jersey designed by a Scotsman?

Coming to a high street near you as worn by an 18 stone Grimsby Town fan, who will insist on tucking the shirt into his jeans. I just hope there's a washing powder out there that's powerful enough to get the pissy lager and gravy stains out.

PS - Scotland to get gubbed 4-1 by the Dutch.

35 Up (1991)

New Old Age

Further to the recent viewing of A Month In The Country - a film I hadn't seen in about 17 years - a mention of an excellent website dedicated to trying to getting the film reissued on DVD. The website looks like a real labour of love, and you can't help but admire such dedication.

I wish there were more websites like this out there.

And as a throwaway, one of my favourite passages from the novel on which the film was based.

Fever Pitch (1997)

"In the end, everything is a gag."

Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain (89)

Dear Friends,

Welcome to the 89th of our weekly bulletins to keep you informed of changes at Socialist Party of Great Britain @ MySpace.

We now have 1466 friends!

Recent blogs:

The trouble with culture

Back to no work

So that's what's wrong with socialism!

Quote for the week:

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against each other. Thomas Carlyle, as quoted by Emma Goldman in her essay Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty, 1911.

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Robert and Piers

Socialist Party of Great Britain

A Month In The Country (1987)

Blow Dry (2001)

SPGB Public Meeting

John Pilger's 'Palestine is the issue'

The next in the fortnightly series of films and talks at the Socialist Party's Head Office, 52 Clapham High Street, London SW4 will take place this Saturday, 14 March, at 6pm.

It's "Palestine is the Issue", a film by John Pilger on the long-running Israel-Palestine conflict.

It will be followed by a discussion and a presentation of the socialist case against nationalism in all its forms and for a world without frontiers in which the resources of the Earth will belong to the people of the world.

Everybody is welcome and admission is free. The nearest tube is Clapham North on the Northern Line.

" . . . leave to do my utmost."

Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain (87)

Dear Friends,

Welcome to the 87th of our weekly bulletins to keep you informed of changes at Socialist Party of Great Britain @ MySpace.

We now have 1457 friends!

Recent blogs:

Child benefits?

Marketing the suicide seed

'It's Later Than You Think'

Quote for the week:

"Then 'twixt lips of loved and lover solemn thoughts of us shall rise;

We who once were fools and dreamers then shall be the great and wise;

There amidst the world new builded shall our earthly deeds abide,

Though our names be all forgotten and the tale of how we died.

William Morris, All For The Cause, Chants for Socialists, 1894

Continuing luck with your MySpace adventures!

Robert and Piers

Socialist Party of Great Britain

The cup is half full but it will be on someone else's shelf this year

Further to this report doing the rounds on the internet in the last few days, I think it's important to put a positive spin on today's mishap.

Think of it as less a 1-0 defeat in the cup, and more of a 7-1 mauling over two legs.

There you go. Just added an extra eight years to my life.

Another eight years of Celtic not winning away in the Champions League; another eight years of not finding an mp3 of Flesh's 'Sentimental Sunday' on the internet; and another eight years of telling myself 'I'll start reading Don Quixote' tomorrow'.

"Blog something . . . blog anything!"

Further to my last post:

Chas as in Yazz

Plasticine Population as in The Plastic Population.

Any obscure jokes from That Sinking Feeling that you need explaining, just give me 7 days notice and the blog will get back to you.

. . . oh, and Reidski's finally remembered his blogger password after it feel down the back of his sofa two months ago.

(No mention of Chas) amongst the Plasticine Population

I know that the dictates of polite society means that I'm supposed to think that the following is wanky, but I think it's wonderful:

The BBC fills in the blanks.