An illuminating, amusing and very moving podcast from American performer Mike Daisey who visited the vast Foxconn factory in Shenzhen, China, that makes Apple iPhones among other hi-tec crap for us, posing as a businessman. Foxconn is the suicide centre of tat. At least fourteen workers stepped off the planet through its labour-camp portals in […]
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Britain’s craving for chinoiserie in the 18th and 19th centuries resulted in a trade imbalance that threatened to empty the treasury. To pay for the tea, silks, spices and porcelain we liked so much, the East India Company sold enormous quantities of cheap Bengal-grown opium to China, turning an aristocratic vice into a nationwide addiction.
Away in a manger, no crib for a bed. ‘Cause Pontius Cameron had kicked them out and put Mary and Joseph on workfare. “‘Tis good. ‘Tis the Lord’s work,” saith Liam Byrne and took all the flak for what the Romans did hoping to get himself a little governorship somewhere nearer Rome. And so it
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O brave new year that has such people, innit? Well, that was a lovely festive season. I hope you all had a good one, too, even if it turns out to be the last one we enjoy if the Tories carry on with their policy of pillaging and both enabling and enobling the pillagers-in-chief. With
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“They don’t make ’em like they used to.” I’m just getting to grips with the sad news that the man named after Superman’s Dad has passed on to the Great Hall of the People in the Sky. We all know that power grows from the barrel of a gun. Here’s Dear Leader practising with veg.
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This weekend’s haul by the Grim Reaper has been an impressive one. First Christopher Hitchens, then Vaclav Havel, now ding dong, Kim Jong Il is dead. Is there no God!!!? Hitchens will know by now but he ain’t telling. The only time I saw Hitch was at Bookmarks where he took on the titans (or
So Hitchens, Havel and Kim are standing at the Pearly Gates … Read More »
