Monthly Archives: April 2010
Hate highlights – 30 April
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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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‘…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 … Continue reading
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