‘Ground Zero mosque’? The reality is less provocative
Millions of Americans are furious about the ‘Ground Zero mosque’. But it doesn’t exist
‘We’re not rats’
Jimmy Reid’s speech in 1972 I’ve copied this from elsewhere. I just wanted a copy for me, here. Alienation is the precise and correctly applied word for describing the major social problem in Britain today. People feel alienated by society. In some intellectual circles it is treated almost as a new phenomenon. It has, however, [...]
It’s the new Premier League season – and as a fan, I could not be more fed up
How does the Premier League get away with it, with all this boasting, still making all this money? Because we are stupid.
The Wire – Down Under
Earlier this year Lisa and I were loaned Series One of The Wire. Christmas hadn’t long passed and we were a bit fed up of lounging around, so this meant that when we started to watch it, we weren’t really in the mood for television. I think we watched the first ten minutes of episode one and switched it off.
Labour’s vain, venal has-beens should bow out and shut up
They just can’t stop themselves, yesteryear headline addicts, locked in the old quarrels, oozing sectarian malice to their last gasp. Peter Mandelson and Tony Blair elbow their way back into the limelight for one last show with their competing memoirs – a breathtaking self-indulgence dragging the party back, just when the ballot papers for Labour’s future land on doormats tomorrow morning.