Tag: Middle class

  • Why Do Black People Riot?

    Why Do Black People Riot?

    OK I’ll admit the slightly clickbaity headline, but it’s a question that has popped up in my social media mostly from white people, quite often middle class. It’s not as bluntly put, but expressed via criticisms and tutting over the looting, rioting and protests over the death of George Floyd. The implicit criticism is ‘why…

  • RC 321: Coronanation Pt 2: The Event

    RC 321: Coronanation Pt 2: The Event

    ‘We’re In This Together’ the announcements lie at Poundland as the death/infection stats go up and even the Prime Minister has met his Karmic comeuppance after cutting the NHS and screwing up this whole pandemic affair being in intensive care. He should Corona Coco! I hear even New York are planning to bury the dead…

  • Jonathan Pie & Extinction Rebellion

    Jonathan Pie & Extinction Rebellion

    Let me say here – if it’s not been obvious – I support Extinction Rebellion (XR) and Greta Thunberg. I find the people who criticise protest to be twunts of the highest order – protest is nearly always good (fascists marching through black/brown/Jewish neighbourhoods or Orangemen doing same can get in the sea though) but…

  • RC 282: Ladies First

    RC 282: Ladies First

    This is a response to the frankly whack Guardian listicle about the greatest female rappers that James (hi!) sent to me and Kirk. 4/10 – that’s not only my ‘see me after class’ score, it’s also the paltry amount I agree with. Ladies first, well last in this case. It reads like some bored intern…

  • Don’t Get Captured

    Don’t Get Captured

    Loving Chris Hopewell’s work (Burn The Witch) and the new video for Run The Jewel’s storming ‘Don’t Get Captured’ brings the politics of gentrification, an uncaring justice system and the military industrial complex to claymation (not a sentence I thought I’d write). This song was a highlight of their Glastonbury set, which pointedly kicked the…

  • Grenfell was no accident – middle classes and radicalism

    Grenfell was no accident – middle classes and radicalism

    Love this interview from Owen Jones with Frankie Boyle who speaks so much truth to power, about austerity, Theresa May’s failure-as-success, gentrification, and DUP. He’s right especially about Grenfell Tower, which was murder – corporate murder by neglect, although I’d argue the Tories just want the poor to die or go away and it’s more…

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