Tag: The Sun
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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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Scab Aid
For profit, stars, and company Consumers of the world agree Nothing sells like disaster, let it be. Rather appropriate The Scum & Let It Be by Chumbawamba – originally in response to The Sun and others cashing in on the Zeebrugge Ferry disaster, but just as well applies to any of these charity songs. Also…
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RC 208: Drowning in The Sun
(Weymouth collage, by Tim B) From walks along cliff tops to the deaths of red tops, the paper sea keeps rolling on, so rains the British Summer. I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide, Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied…
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Never Buy The Sun – new free Billy Bragg track
Wonderful track from the underappreciated and ever-talented Billy Bragg – and you can download it for free or stream it here. (via Slicing Up Eyeballs)
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Milly Dowler, Soham and News International
Like a lot of people I am shocked by the revelations that News of the World hacked into Milly Dowler’s phone (the murdered Walton on Thames teenager) – but as you can see from this video of the excellent Tom Watson, this is not new. Murdoch’s henchmen and spies hacked into the phones of the…
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Hackgate – our Watergate?
Well maybe there isn’t a more direct connection to Cameron to fully support a PM toppling move yet, but if one were to be proved… You already have phone hacking, lies, chief spin person to David Cameron who used to be editor at a paper full of unethical journalists who say Andy Coulson knew what…