Today we have been busy working out the lyrics to Belarus’ entry into the Eurovision Song Contest. Seems a reasonable break from looking Indian cotton farmer suicide statistics.
Twenty-year-old Anastasiya Vinnikova sings the praises of her homeland with a Stalinist disco swagger. The audience nods with sycophantic gusto.
“You’re my passion, do it old-fashioned / When I [...]
one cold winter morning comedians chris coltrane and jonnie marbles went to the conservative party offices to give chancellor george osborne a jammy dodger. why give fatty a biscuit? he came up tops in a national Tax Shirker poll.
A spot of ‘reporting’ for the visionon.tv boys at the netroots conference yesterday.
Here we’re speaking with Donnacha Delong, an NUJ activist.
Although the premise for netroots was admirable [how to get from clicktivism to activism], I didn’t find the sessions or the crowd representative or challenging. There was an overwhelming acceptance of existing power structures [...]
Short clip of journalist, activist and blogger Jody McIntyre being dragged by the Forward Intelligence Team from his wheelchair to the no-man’s land between two police lines at Westminster Abbey, 09 December 2010.
Here, a FIT officer tells him he’s not arrested, that he’s “going to get hurt”.
I regret not staying with him. My phone rang [...]
Here’s a copy of a press release issued by the Frontline Club’s founder Vaughan Smith.
“I attended court today to offer my support for Julian Assange of Wikileaks on a point of principle.
“In the face of a concerted attempt to shut him down and after a decade since 9/11 that has been characterised by manipulation of [...]
I’ve been doing some writing for a bunch of art students.
Such as the copy you will read below.
The first draft I worked off had the phrase “challenging the position of the student as consumer and the pedagogic problems that come with this new condition”.
Call me a bit low-brow but I thought it best to simplify [...]
The Coalition government is now spamming Britons for their credit card details.
Presumably the shortfall really is that bad….
Nice one, David Spameron.
[The following is from a mail found in my SPAM folder].
Rt Hon David Cameron MP 5 December 2010 20:50
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PRIME MINISTER’S OFFICE
TREASURY AND MINISTER FOR THE CIVIL SERVICE,
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM.
Our ref: ATM/13470/IDR
Your ref:…Date: 06/12/2010
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Student occupations are sweeping the United Kingdom.
Disgruntled students with a deep sense of betrayal and a deeper sense of entitlement are taking over lecture theatres, meeting halls, cloisters, university wings….
At demonstrations, their ducks, dives, feints and Parthian shots at confused lines of police are as much spectacle as much as a revelation that the [...]
Remember Nicola Fisher? The lady armed with a juice box who got up close and personal with the back of Sgt. Delroy Smellie’s hand?
Footage has emerged of TSG officer U1202 punching a man in the face at the student demonstrations in Central London on 30 November 2010.
Some friends from Students for a Free Tibet rang up to ask me to close their poetry night with a verse by Woeser.
Woeser is a Tibetan poet, activist and blogger living in China. She is one of the few Tibetan authors to write in Chinese.
You can find out more about her and all things Tibetan [...]
