It was about how the 99% weren’t allowed in to feed at the trough of the 1%. Considering David Cameron, his wife and men in ermine and wigs were going to feasting on expensive dead things, I had a little idea.
My instructions were to meet at Stoke Newington’s Abney Park Cemetery and keep a lookout for a monk. With a sword. By a disused chapel. I was joined by five other journalists from the land of geekdom who’d prised themselves from their computers to learn the art of thirteenth-century longsword fighting with a “sacerdos” called [...]
Thanks to a fateful week in journalism, I got to have a little fun at the expense of Rupert Murdoch, Andy Coulson, Rebekah Wade and the Metropolitan Police…with a coupla dudes in dirty macs and cheap hats….
Filmed this recently…. One HDV camera and one mobile phone. It was for Stop Sweatshop Greenwash at Thanet Earth. It’s to the tune of Katy Perry’s “Teenage Dream”. Not a bad stab for a bunch of green and labour activists in green hair and a man with an inflatable guitar eh?
here’s a short video featuring war boutique’s work at black rat projects. he and peter kennard set up a series of installations exploring the relationships between citizen, state and commerce and geopolitics as a power structure.
First met Jonnie through a strange phone call.
“Hi Leah. Do you want to film a comedian who’d like to get himself kettled at the next anti-cuts demonstration?”
“Does this mean I’d have to be kettled with him?”
“Yes.”
“Ok,” I said, knowing I had a press card that could – at the very least – get ME out [...]
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.
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
Reply-To: fcaffairs@2g.cc
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
IMMEDIATE [...]
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 [...]
