Football — the continuation of war by other means. The trouble with football (collapsing a whole long list into a handful of bugbears) is that its mindset bears an uncanny resemblance to the belief in “my country/party right or wrong”. It appears designed to programme the collective brain out of thinking and nuance, making those […]
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Pic by Nikolas Giakoumidis, AP From “No Dogs Or Chinese” to dogs who are warmly welcomed by their human comrades. Just when you wanted a story combining pets and politics, here’s one from Paw Print Post about the street dogs in Greece who fight side by side with the anarchists. They are popular with the
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The pretty face of oppression. Arch-villainess Anna in ‘V’ I’m supposed to be recording the final links for Chopsticks At Dawn (BBC R4) tomorrow, but bronchitis has duffed up my throat and everything’s swimming like a fever dream. Sorry, not a fever dream. Just media coverage of the election. Back under the duvet where it’s
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One of the things that’s always drawn me to Cornwall is the friendliness of the locals. On one childhood coastal walk into Hayle from St Ives, an elderly man tipped his hat to my parents and wished us “Good morning.” “Who was that?” I wanted to know, my city expectations utterly flummoxed by the revelation
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I don’t know which induces nausea in me the most: whether it’s Tony Blair’s Joker Jack grin as he trousers £20 million thus far for services rendered, or Stephen Byers’ ‘gorblimey, I’m only a cabbie, mate, at five grand a shot’ routine. Who makes me reach fastest for the sick bag? Could it be Geoff
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OK, hangover gone. For a great account of the Orwell Prize debate, ‘Have the political classes been fatally weakened?’, at Thursday’s shortlist event, see Laurie at Penny Red. It was a truly flesh-crawling example of how skewed and corrupt is the mentality of these people who are running and ruining our lives. I will just
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