Tag: New Labour
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Paul Nuttall and alt-right ‘patriots’
Paul Nutall? Of the UKIPS? Well let Stewart Lee say it best (NSFW). And I think the best response to the ‘alt-right’ (sorry, like New Labour you can’t rebrand Nazis – yes not all ‘alt-right’ people are fascists but some are) and the far-right is Maajid Nawaz’s response on LBC – you aren’t patriots. You…
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Scary Cameron movie
Hey Cassetteboy can do black and white, words out of context and scary bullet points too! Also quite funny that the Tories attack video fell foul of the very copyright laws the Conservatives have been bolstering for decades! Tee hee. Although in other news, disappointed with some of the stuff coming out of Guardian recently…
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RIP Tony Benn and Bob Crow
It’s been a bad week for us socialists, first RMT’s Bob Crow dies of a sudden heart attack, and now I hear today that Tony Benn is gone. Both were men who fought for their beliefs, and in the case of Bob Crow I disagreed with some of the actions but you could never fault…
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“analogue business model in a digital era”
I love this quote from Ed O’Brien from Radiohead, about to speak at MIDEM about Filesharing: “I have a problem when people in the industry say ‘it’s killing the industry, it’s the thing that’s ripping us apart’. I don’t actually believe it is … (Pirates) might not buy an album, but they’re spending their money…
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Dan Bull’s Open Letter to Mandy, the Pirate Finder General
After his wonderful letter to Lily Allen, Dan Bull does it again – this time an open letter sung to everyone’s favourite Pirate Finder General and Geffen-loving big corporate shill, Peter Mandelson.