“They don’t make ’em like they used to.” I’m just getting to grips with the sad news that the man named after Superman’s Dad has passed on to the Great Hall of the People in the Sky. We all know that power grows from the barrel of a gun. Here’s Dear Leader practising with veg. […]
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This weekend’s haul by the Grim Reaper has been an impressive one. First Christopher Hitchens, then Vaclav Havel, now ding dong, Kim Jong Il is dead. Is there no God!!!? Hitchens will know by now but he ain’t telling. The only time I saw Hitch was at Bookmarks where he took on the titans (or
So Hitchens, Havel and Kim are standing at the Pearly Gates … Read More »
Here’s another case that goes on the shitlist I’m calling “How depraved is out ruling elite?” You’d think, wouldn’t you, that in these times of austerity, cuts and sharing the pain in our Big Society, that anyone who helped stem the flow of wealth away from the public purse and into greedy corporate maws would
The bankers are paying themselves bonuses with gusto, Tamara Ecclestone still has her £500,000 shelf of Birkin bags, the rich are getting richer and the rest of us are having to pick up the bill. And still we hear the shrill call that it’s the deficit that needs eliminating. So how well are our masters
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How depraved is our ruling elite: No 2 Ah, yes. A big Number two. Then there’s the BBC okaying Jeremy Clarkson’s Pinochetesque outburst calling for strikers to be taken out and shot in front of their families. Under pressure from 21,000 complaints, the public corporation then told him to apologise, exercising more punitive authority over
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Reports that one of the sponsors of our wonderful 2012 Olympics is Dow Chemicals, owner of Union Carbide which killed 15,000 people 27 years ago in Bhopal in India and is still maiming the local population, prompts me to start a “How depraved is our ruling elite” series here at Madam Miaow. Dow’s refusal to
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