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Wednesday, 4 December 2019
A Fistful of Dynamite (1971)
"I know all about the revolutions and how they start! The people who read the books go to the people who can’t read the books, the poor people, and say, “We have to have a change.” So, the poor people make the change. And then, the people who read the books, they all sit around the big polished tables, and they talk and talk and talk and eat and eat and eat. But what has happened to the poor people? They are dead! That’s your revolution!"
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Sunday, 1 December 2019
Saturday, 30 November 2019
Half Cut Barber
Frances Barber (ask your parents) had another of her notorious twitter meltdowns last night. What set her off on her alcohol fuelled keyboard warrior binge? Well, firstly it was London's stance on Uber, then it was the terrorist attack on London Bridge. Naturally, for someone like Barber, all roads lead to Jeremy Corbyn and the stage was set for another of her disturbing nonsensical rants.
Her feed was immediately beset with advice. Go to bed, stop drinking and seek help seemed to be the thrust of this, but Barber is not one to accept the kindness of strangers and it wasn't long before she claimed that they were all being personally sent by Aaron Bastani, or 'Asshole Bastardi' as she preferred to call him.
Frances Barber needs help, but I fear she is beyond it. Her social media appears a litany of hatred and bile. Anti-Islamic, anti-Labour, anti-Scottish independance, transphobic and Pro-Zionist. She sees conspiracy theories everywhere, borne of an unhealthy fixation with Jeremy Corbyn. This is a woman who claimed that she personally knew the old Labour activist and Black British woman by the name of Margaret Cutting from Liverpool; that she was an inspiration to her when she too was a member of the Party in the early '80s. Except Cutting was conclusively proven to not exist. During the previous terrorist attack on London Bridge, Barber responded to a tweet from a Muslim who was reminding everyone that real Muslims are not terrorists with the words "Then please stop killing us". For further examples of disgust Ms Barber has for all things Muslim, look at the time she mistook Brighton Pavilion for a mosque or her contretemps with a cab driver of the Islamic faith. For Barber, it's a them and us society and the Muslim community are firmly in the 'them' camp to be treated with contempt and suspicion. This is basically racism, something Barber claims to deplore as she accuses Jeremy Corbyn and Labour of being guilty of it.
Barber isn't actually Jewish herself which poses a problem for one tweet she posted last night in which she used a blatant anti-semitic trope.
She immediately claimed she was being ironic. But this really doesn't stand up too well at all. Thankfully more people realise that she is clearly deranged then those who stand by her (the usual clique of Corbyn haters; Silly Rachel Riley, Eddie Marsan, Tracy Ann Oberman etc) as evinced on Wikipedia during her meltdown last night.
Couldn't have put it better myself.
Her feed was immediately beset with advice. Go to bed, stop drinking and seek help seemed to be the thrust of this, but Barber is not one to accept the kindness of strangers and it wasn't long before she claimed that they were all being personally sent by Aaron Bastani, or 'Asshole Bastardi' as she preferred to call him.
Frances Barber needs help, but I fear she is beyond it. Her social media appears a litany of hatred and bile. Anti-Islamic, anti-Labour, anti-Scottish independance, transphobic and Pro-Zionist. She sees conspiracy theories everywhere, borne of an unhealthy fixation with Jeremy Corbyn. This is a woman who claimed that she personally knew the old Labour activist and Black British woman by the name of Margaret Cutting from Liverpool; that she was an inspiration to her when she too was a member of the Party in the early '80s. Except Cutting was conclusively proven to not exist. During the previous terrorist attack on London Bridge, Barber responded to a tweet from a Muslim who was reminding everyone that real Muslims are not terrorists with the words "Then please stop killing us". For further examples of disgust Ms Barber has for all things Muslim, look at the time she mistook Brighton Pavilion for a mosque or her contretemps with a cab driver of the Islamic faith. For Barber, it's a them and us society and the Muslim community are firmly in the 'them' camp to be treated with contempt and suspicion. This is basically racism, something Barber claims to deplore as she accuses Jeremy Corbyn and Labour of being guilty of it.
Barber isn't actually Jewish herself which poses a problem for one tweet she posted last night in which she used a blatant anti-semitic trope.
Couldn't have put it better myself.
Thursday, 28 November 2019
Ignore the Biased Media, The Figures Do Add Up
The TV news wheeled out Paul Johnson (any relation?) today of the Institute to Fiscal Studies to say that Labour's manifesto pledges do not add up economically.
Except they do. At least, they do according to 163 prominent economists who have backed Labour's spending plans. And you can read about it in greater detail here.
So, that's 163 say yes. And 1 who says no. You do the Maths.
Asked to comment on Paul Johnson's claim that Labour's manifesto was ambitious, Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell said tonight that he took such a comment as a compliment. And quite right too. Compare that to the comments being bandied about regarding the Tory manifesto on its propaganda mouthpiece the BBC. The twisted mouth of Laura Kuenssberg announced it as a 'do no harm' manifesto.
Do no harm?
130,000 people have died as a result of victimisation from the DWP on behalf of this Tory government. The NHS is being slashed ahead of its sale to Trump. Working families cannot cope and are surviving on food banks. Homelessness is on the increase, along with the number of homeless deaths. And Kuenssberg says it's a manifesto that will 'do no harm'. That horse has long since bolted, luv.
Let's ignore the biased media and listen instead to those experts Michael Gove wants us to be tired of. Let's be ambitious. Let's not accept the breadline policies of the Tories. Let's believe that we can live fairer and more equal lives, let's believe that we deserve them.
Let's vote Labour on December 12th.
Except they do. At least, they do according to 163 prominent economists who have backed Labour's spending plans. And you can read about it in greater detail here.
So, that's 163 say yes. And 1 who says no. You do the Maths.
Asked to comment on Paul Johnson's claim that Labour's manifesto was ambitious, Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell said tonight that he took such a comment as a compliment. And quite right too. Compare that to the comments being bandied about regarding the Tory manifesto on its propaganda mouthpiece the BBC. The twisted mouth of Laura Kuenssberg announced it as a 'do no harm' manifesto.
Do no harm?
130,000 people have died as a result of victimisation from the DWP on behalf of this Tory government. The NHS is being slashed ahead of its sale to Trump. Working families cannot cope and are surviving on food banks. Homelessness is on the increase, along with the number of homeless deaths. And Kuenssberg says it's a manifesto that will 'do no harm'. That horse has long since bolted, luv.
Let's ignore the biased media and listen instead to those experts Michael Gove wants us to be tired of. Let's be ambitious. Let's not accept the breadline policies of the Tories. Let's believe that we can live fairer and more equal lives, let's believe that we deserve them.
Let's vote Labour on December 12th.
Protecting Their Own
I would say that today's not guilty verdict was unbelievable but, let's be honest, the fact that the establishment will always protect their own is surely inevitable.
I have nothing but sympathy for the families of the 96 tonight. I have no more words than that, but I feel this song says it all.
RIP Jonathan Miller and Clive James
The deaths of two cultural behemoths were announced yesterday, Jonathan Miller and Clive James.
Miller was a true renaissance man. A qualified doctor, he embarked upon a career as a performer after shooting to international fame as part of Beyond the Fringe, alongside such brilliant talents as Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and Alan Bennett. Once described as 'the English Danny Kaye', the quicksilver like brilliance of Miller would not be satisfied with performance alone and he gradually moved behind the scenes to become the editor of Monitor and a director at the National Theatre, before moving on to become artistic director at the Old Vic and a critically lauded director of opera. Knighted in 2002 for his services to the arts, Miller's whole life was arguably a testament to the post war generation's determination to see the potential in everyone. He was responsible for my favourite adaptation of CS Lewis' Alice Adventures in Wonderland and for that I will always thank him. He died at the age of 85, following a long battle with Alzheimer's. RIP.
Clive James put paid to the myth that critics are only critics because they can't produce anything themselves. The Antipodean rose to fame as a critic of both literature and television, with columns that were wryly humourous, but he quickly showcased his skills as a broadcaster in his own right with some of the funniest, game-changing programmes to grace our screens in the '80s and '90s. I will always remember those evenings, being allowed to stay up with my dad to watch James use his clever, eloquent and pithy turns of phrase repeatedly get to the heart of the matter and make us both laugh. The notion of taking a 'sideways look' at the world may sound terribly hoary and cliched these days, but James made it an art form. Diagnosed with leukaemia in 2010, James passed away on Sunday at the age of 80. RIP.
Miller was a true renaissance man. A qualified doctor, he embarked upon a career as a performer after shooting to international fame as part of Beyond the Fringe, alongside such brilliant talents as Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and Alan Bennett. Once described as 'the English Danny Kaye', the quicksilver like brilliance of Miller would not be satisfied with performance alone and he gradually moved behind the scenes to become the editor of Monitor and a director at the National Theatre, before moving on to become artistic director at the Old Vic and a critically lauded director of opera. Knighted in 2002 for his services to the arts, Miller's whole life was arguably a testament to the post war generation's determination to see the potential in everyone. He was responsible for my favourite adaptation of CS Lewis' Alice Adventures in Wonderland and for that I will always thank him. He died at the age of 85, following a long battle with Alzheimer's. RIP.
Clive James put paid to the myth that critics are only critics because they can't produce anything themselves. The Antipodean rose to fame as a critic of both literature and television, with columns that were wryly humourous, but he quickly showcased his skills as a broadcaster in his own right with some of the funniest, game-changing programmes to grace our screens in the '80s and '90s. I will always remember those evenings, being allowed to stay up with my dad to watch James use his clever, eloquent and pithy turns of phrase repeatedly get to the heart of the matter and make us both laugh. The notion of taking a 'sideways look' at the world may sound terribly hoary and cliched these days, but James made it an art form. Diagnosed with leukaemia in 2010, James passed away on Sunday at the age of 80. RIP.
Tories Attempt to Rewrite History, Or Hancock's Half Truth
Today, the (Tories are bad for your) Health Secretary, Matt Hancock (the cunt), took to twitter to celebrate an important anniversary. "100 years ago today," he wrote, "the first female MP, Nancy Astor, was elected to parliament. The female Conservative candidates standing in this election are exceptional and I look forward to working with them in parliament to achieve further progress on gender equality across our society"
Except that's not strictly true. The first female MP elected to parliament was in fact, Constance Markievicz.
Astor was a Conservative MP and religious bigot. Yes, she was the first female MP to take her seat, but Constance Markievicz was the first to be elected. As an Irish Republican and member of Sinn Féin, she refused to take the seat she had so emphatically won. As well as a veteran of the Easter Rising, Markievicz was also a socialist and suffrage campaigner. In short everything the Tories have always been against. Given her politics, it's obvious why they would want to write her out of their history books.
Hancock knows that he is wrong, but he is blatantly selling a falsehood in order to paint his party out to be the leading proponent of gender equality because they had a female MP take her seat 100 years ago. He claims she was the first, but he is wrong, and in perpetuating this falsehood, the reason for it has been laid bare for all to see.
Except that's not strictly true. The first female MP elected to parliament was in fact, Constance Markievicz.
Astor was a Conservative MP and religious bigot. Yes, she was the first female MP to take her seat, but Constance Markievicz was the first to be elected. As an Irish Republican and member of Sinn Féin, she refused to take the seat she had so emphatically won. As well as a veteran of the Easter Rising, Markievicz was also a socialist and suffrage campaigner. In short everything the Tories have always been against. Given her politics, it's obvious why they would want to write her out of their history books.
Hancock knows that he is wrong, but he is blatantly selling a falsehood in order to paint his party out to be the leading proponent of gender equality because they had a female MP take her seat 100 years ago. He claims she was the first, but he is wrong, and in perpetuating this falsehood, the reason for it has been laid bare for all to see.
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