Tag: International relations
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Do They Know It’s Covid Time?
Another one posted too late for the Xmas podcasts, Joe.co,uk has posted this cutup and autotune of Boris and his chums ‘singing’ Band Aid’s ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’ for these times. They wasted £12 BILLION on useless things – as a friend pointed out, that is more than what was paid to build the…
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Message for Hilary Clinton
As every cell in Chile will tell The cries of the tortured men Remember Allende, and the days before, Before the army came Please remember Victor Jara, In the Santiago Stadium, Es verdad – those Washington Bullets again Given you’ve just cuddled up to Henry Kissinger as a ‘friend of democracy’ does this mean you…
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The gradual acid drip of fascism
Something I’ve always struggled with it certain labels, certain accusations towards the UK government and security services. ‘Police state’ ‘Nazi’ ‘Fascism’ ‘Stasi’ – all very easy to blurt out and demean the original usage, and when using them you think about some cold grey depressing country (oh it is the same!) in Eastern Europe with…