Apologies in advance for a slightly silly friday evening post, but one thing that has got up my (fairly long) nose for some time now is the fairly persistent commentary about how great it would be if we adopted a “continental” drinking culture. For one thing, its part of a broader, longer-standing tendency amongst the [...]
There’s this great feeling going on in Edinburgh atm, which I can only describe as a mass pandemic of ‘don’t drop the ball!’ syndrome. It’s like the wheels of some huge machine are turning, with so many people doing so many jobs that it’s totally impossible to remember who’s doing what.
Of course the strange thing [...]
For the last two years or so, I have been engaging in a dastardly plot to destroy the Tory party. Yes, by writing silly outraged-liberal letters to my Conservative MP – to which she must respond – on matters she ultimately doesn’t care about, I’ll hopefully waste enough Tory time and resources to destroy the [...]
A few weeks back I picked up on an article by Christina Patterson entitled “The Limits of Multiclturalism”. While I have already said all that needs to be said about the content of the article itself, its title drew upon a a theme that has been fashionable for some time: namely that we were overly [...]
Over in the States, there has been a ripple of excitement over the antics of recently arrested air steward Stephen Slater. As the flight he was manning came in to land, passengers were told not to grab their luggage until they got word to do so. One woman carried on getting her cases from the [...]
Guest post by Kam Gill
There has been heated debate across the left-blogosphere, and mainstream press recently about the march through Bradford of viciously Islamophobic hooligan firm the EDL. Sunny Hundal of Liberal Conspiracy argued in the Guardian last month that “EDL thugs” must be allowed to march as to ban the protest would be contrary [...]
How many of you knew that alcohol is substantially more expensive than at any time in the 20th century – even when taking into account inflation? As the Con Dems mull over a minimum price for alcohol – a move that even New Labour deemed an inappropriate imposition upon working people during a recession – [...]
Media rhetoric is usually sloppily built out of shite, but the campaign in recent years against extremism seems to me to be the sort of thing that it might be worth standing up and being counted for. I mean no-one likes extremes, do they? I say this, though, after once again I have been accused [...]
So here is my latest pick of news, views and analysis from around the red web web.
Over at socialist unity there is a very extensive debate about the whether counter-demonstrations are a useful tactic for opposing the EDL. The article and comments are well worth a read.
First of all, not all leadership contests have to [...]
The Telegraph website includes an incredibly useful feature. The little box showing which articles are proving most popular offers an admittedly blurry insight into what gets Tory Britain excited. For the past week an article about the man pictured to the right has been trending high. In essence, this man found a job by standing [...]
