A guest post from my friend, John Wight. First published at Socialist Unity, 27 September 2013. I personally wouldn’t shoplift unless I was pauperised and hungry, but maybe that’s the bourgeois brainwashing I acquired as a kid growing up in Hackney. I would add, however, that when my purse containing not only cash and all […]
Which is the greater crime – poverty or shoplifting? by John Wight Read More »
How did someone so intellectually challenged get to be running our education? Michael Gove, a Rupert Murdoch shill of old, may be clever in the same way a performing dog can do tricks but his callousness towards the weakest in society demonstrates that he desperately lacks emotional intelligence, compassion, empathy, generosity and the key qualities
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Charles Shaar Murray’s Journalism as Craft and Art writing course goes live tonight in NW6 for eight weeks. The Hothouse Project is now on Facebook and here’s what amounts to our manifesto: Charles Shaar Murray’s “Journalism as Craft and Art” writing course is the basis of our alternative education group, The Hothouse Project, featuring the
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Another idyllic trip to St Ives making sure I get in my annual soul-food with several visits to the Barbara Hepworth gallery and sculpture garden in St Ives. A magical place. With Paul Anderson and Denise Ingamells. Madam Miaow says … visit Anna Chen’s website here: Home Anna’s food blog here: http://annacheneats.blogspot.com/
A walk around the Barbara Hepworth sculpture garden in St Ives. Read More »
Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge returns to the St Ives Arts Festival following last year’s The Steampunk Opium Wars extravaganza that had a cast of thousands and played to a capacity audience of dozens. This year, I’ll read the first chapters of my novelisation of the The Steampunk Opium Wars: The Camellia and the Poppy which I’m having
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Yesterday, Ed Miliband pulled his big-boy underpants over his trousers and rose to new adequacies by actually doing what the electorate has been yelling for loud and clear all along: NO WAR WITH SYRIA. He slew the Cameron lizards in the parliamentary vote and carved out a space for the pursuit of a peaceful solution.
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