Monthly Archives: 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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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