Tag: Nelson Mandela
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Jonathan Pie: State of the news
Many a truth spoken in jest ‘off camera’ about Jeremy Corbyn. It is crazy that during #piggate and all the stuff and nonsense about an atheist republican not singing ‘God Save The Queen’, there’s been tax cuts for the poorest, trying to scrap free school meals, the refugee crisis, an estimated 50,000+ people died of…
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Where were you? An imperfect list for misplaced fake nostalgia
Really only posting Imperfect List by Big Hard Excellent Fish here for two reasons 1) it’s ace, and has been played twice on Radio Clash, and still is the best thing both Robin Guthrie and Pete Wylie has done – yes including their ‘day jobs’ and 2) all the lyrics for this track on the…
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RIP Madiba
Sad but inevitable news that Nelson Mandela has died, a great man who I think we won’t see the like for a long while. Even the Onion has a nice (and all too true in the age of Obama and Cameron) tribute. Interesting that the usual criticisms of ‘revolutionary/terrorist/Leninist/Marxist’ are in play – the Tory…
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My Little Kony
Love this video from Invisible Children, it spells out what I’ve been saying for ages is the new politic of online connection – which shines light on the strange apathy of looking the other way. Although I have a few minor reservations about this sort of high profile ‘RED’ style campaigning (transparency and cost of…