Category Archives: Minipax
If ye break faith with us
So Remembrance Sunday has passed, when the UK spends two minutes quietly remembering its war dead, before returning to the usual business of adding more names to memorials. The event was originally conceived to honour the now long dead young … Continue reading
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‘No pasaran’: Cable Street 1936-2011
Anniversaries always offer good opportunities for the reinterpretation of past events according to modern sensibilities. With each passing year the memories get polished, the myths build and the truth becomes that little less easy to establish. 75 years have gone … Continue reading
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WikiLeaks: the sound of a stable door slamming
Dorothy Parker, LCD Soundsystem, Paul Auster, Bob Dylan, John Coltrane, Jack Kerouac, Jimmy Hendrix, Billie Holiday, Muhammed Ali, MC5, Hunter S. Thompson, Blondie, Joel & Ethan Coen, Bruce Springsteen, Marilyn Monroe, Johnny Depp… At times such as these, when America … Continue reading
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Indirect action
Updates to ten minutes hate have been few and far between lately, for which I am sorry, although in my defence, the situation is as yet nowhere near as bad as it was this time last year when I was … Continue reading
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More neo-con fuckwittery
I am sure we were all aware that the neo-con world-view was not something you would want your best friend to start espousing over a drink at the end of a long working day, for fear you would have to … Continue reading
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Why Labour lost
Following a defeat or set back it is natural to contemplate what went wrong, human nature having developed this tactic to avoid repeating mistakes forever. One of my favourite and oft-quoted pieces of wisdom is that one, sometimes attributed to … Continue reading
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