Tag: Tony Blair
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Unofficial Anthems 3: Common People
Cos everybody hates a tourist Especially one that thinks it’s all such a laugh… This wasn’t my suggestion, it comes from Dean Whitbread, but it is perfect. Not only for that line, but the fact this song was a watershed moment not only in Jarvis Cocker and Pulp’s career, but I’d argue music as Pulp…
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New Videotones – Kleptones – Black Medicine
The Videotones project isn’t dead, it’s sleeping to paraphrase that classic Blair/Cassetteboy cutup. Here’s Marcus Round‘s take on Black Medicine, and might fine it is too. Fits right in with the theme and mood of the existing Videotones videos, which if you’ve not seen are well worth checking out. Apologies for the delay, I wasn’t…
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Dear Students…the Cuts the Cuts (missing an n there)
At the risk of this being the repost-everything-in-b3ta-blog, this video by Sir Ian Bowler pretty much says all I feel re: the massive 1918 (!!!) style cuts and taking off the cap in tuition fees this government is doing. Yes the Lib Dems sold y’all down the river for not very much at all…and the…
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Radio Clash 123: rx interview
Yes I’ve interviewed the mystery man himself, rx creator of such George Bush-baiting bootlegs as ‘Imagine/Walk on the Wildside’ and ‘Dick is a Killer’ and ‘White Lines’ – all Radio Clash favourites. We talk about his presidential campaign, politics, drugs, music and money. What more can you want? You can find more about rx at…
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Downing Street Memo – why the silence?
I think for us in the UK the whole WMC/Iraq thing blew up several years ago with the David Kelly affair, a stain on Blair’s government still which I doubt will wash away anytime soon in the minds of people, but we’re used to the fact we were lied to – not happy with it,…