Tag: Socialism
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The Great Dictator Part 2
Great Dictator vs Hans Zimmer’s Time – this came around on shuffle. I posted a link to the original video years ago, even played this on the podcast – but seems even more relevant now, especially with some new imagery. This was originally Chaplin’s attack on Hitler, but you can hear his socialism leaking through…that…
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Don’t vote for Tory or UKIP lies
There’s an election coming up on Thursday in the UK, and it’s disturbing how short people’s memories are. Scare stories about SNP-Labour coalitions when I seem to remember both the Lib-Dems and Tories denied they would go into a coalition in the run-up to the last election (Pro-Tip: no-one ever agrees to a coalition before…
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Emperor’s New Clothes
I wish the TV debates had gone like this interesting cutup from Cassetteboy…And I’m curious about that film, the one that caused the ‘lunchgate’ from a freelancer who couldn’t go eat on a park bench (as I would), and just moaned about Russell on behalf of his employer, who would drop you in a heartbeat!…
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Russell Brand and tax havens
John mentioned this to me, and thus I googled what it was about – so Russell is a hypocrite because his LANDLORD uses a tax haven? What is that to do with him? I didn’t know you could choose how your landlords invest their money? It’d be great if you could, especially mine. His response…
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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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My graphical message to Dave & Nick & Gordon et al
I created this before the election, but thought it far too negative and apathetic to post – I then had a misguided faith in the UK democratic process and that people won’t give the Tories even a slight majority – or work together to avoid a Tory government, surely the party of SDP and Liberalism…