Tag Archives: complete control
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
Filed under Minipax
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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The art of surprise
The only surprise is that people seem to be surprised. This is probably the third time in living memory, after all, that the Conservative Party has effectively told the poorer parts of the UK to fuck off and die, preferably … Continue reading
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Iceland gets its mojo back
Go on, admit it, you were all set to hate them forever for ruining your holiday and stranding you in Bali… … and then they go and do this. If it weren’t for the price of booze, I suspect most … Continue reading
Filed under Minitrue
A warning to children
Children, do not bully the weird kids at school, for they may grow up to be a Treasury secretary and exact a most terrible vengeance on us all. — Picture borrowed from here
Filed under Minitrue
How much??!
They spent over three hundred grand on the CPS website. Julia spent the square root of feck all on ten minutes hate. Which one do we think looks better? Think I might change tack and start tendering for government IT … Continue reading
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Tory mix-tape: the anti-fun edition
Continuing our theme of Tory era mix-tapes, here’s one to take you back to the good old days when the Conservatives got the anti-fun bug to such an extent that they decided to try and ban an entire genre of … Continue reading
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Hang ‘em high
So… I bet you are glad you paid attention in constitutional law now, right? In case, like 80% of the people being interviewed across the media this morning, you have next to no idea what comes next, here is a … Continue reading
