Free Film: South of the Border
Hat tip: Derek Wall
Though Cowards Flinch and Traitors Sneer, We’ll Fly the Red Flag at an Undetermined Point in the Future
Working class universalism is not enough. Labour does not deserve our unwavering loyalty It’s Friday evening. I should be out partying or down the pub. Instead I’m sitting in front of my computer, wondering what wondrous topic to opine upon for my column. I’ve scoured the news. David Cameron’s doing God and Boris, hopes for [...]
An Interview with George Galloway
Walking through security at Portcullis House, the fabulously expensive building standing adjacent to the Houses of Parliament, is a bit like going through any airport anywhere in the world. But making your way through the spacious courtyard, past green trees and sun-dappled water features under the enormous sparkling glass dome towering overhead, you could be [...]
My Enemy’s Enemy
Hugo Chavez has a long memory. Himself the victim of a right-wing coup backed by the country’s elite, it is hardly surprising that the Venezuelan leader has been amongst the most vocal supporters of protesters in Honduras struggling to restore Manuel Zelaya, the leftist president ousted in a military coup last week. As Zelaya attempted [...]
An Interview with Mark Steel
There’s a bit in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan where the eponymous character starts paraphrasing Moby Dick. “I’ll chase him round the moons of Nibia and round the Antares Maelstrom and round Perdition’s flames before I give him up!” he cries. Tracking down comedian Mark Steel can be a bit like that. Between [...]
Venezuela and the Media
There is nothing more totally and utterly soul destroying to the well-intentioned liberal-lefty than seeing a revolution betrayed. It’s a wound. A bloody deep wound. And the salt in that bloody deep wound is that it’s happened in almost every single case. I could probably count the number of genuinely socialist governments of which I [...]
New Labour’s faux-nationalistic outrage should be exposed for the pathetic charade that it is
It appears that foreign disdain for British economic policy is now provoking a faux-nationalistic backlash from our high-ranking politicians; see Peter Mandelson’s ‘who the fuck does this guy think he is?’ rant against Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz’s attack on the state of the British economy for a good example. Economic rhetoric, it would seem, is [...]
Chavez Victory Speech
Ok, So my promised update is a little late. But in the referendum the Si camp won with 54% of the vote. Chavez now has the opportuunity to put himself before the Venezuelan people in 2012. Above is his victory speech.
Venezuela Votes
Today Venezuelans are voting on a proposal to remove laws which limit the president to two terms in office. As usual hyperbolic phrases are being thrown around in the mainstream media. Chavez, as The Times puts it, is seeking power for life. Yet the proposed amendments would essentially place Venezuela on a similar constitutional footing [...]
