Tag: Class conflict
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Disney and Don’t Say Gay
I’ve been watching several of these videos and they sum up not just what’s wrong in Florida and Disney with the Don’t Say Gay bill they helped fund (as did many other corporations including the new owners of Sky and Dreamworks) but also wider problems – with class, representation, and exploitation. The latter point is…
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Paul Draper – Omega Man featuring Steven Wilson
Paul Draper formerly of Mansun has a new album about to drop called ‘Cult Leader Tactics’ about the music industry, and this song recorded in lockdown with Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree summed up my current feels – love the footage from Pripyat (Chernobyl) also – must have been fun shooting that with recent tensions…
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Black Block mashup album
I have decided to make my Black Album – and we all know what that mean don’t we kids? Yes I am out of the mashup making business (and sadly it is a business) for a while, it’s not really making me happy. It’s called Black Block and is 11 tracks in no real order,…
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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…