Have you noticed how the media’s gone all quiet about the excesses of the rich? A few mentions of Gilded Age profligacy but none of the relentless day-in-day-out yammering on about what a drain on resources they are in the same way as they do with the rest of us. For once, let’s not “look […]
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Cultural Revolution — 29th October 2013. An anarchist, a Trotskyist and a communist walk into a studio … Find out what happens next by listening to Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge at 5.30pm on Resonance FM. This week, Anna Chen looks at what happens to culture during a time of revolution. What are the ideals? What
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Russell Brand’s Newsnight interview which propelled the current smashing up of lives by the Tory mindset into the mainstream discourse made me wonder what the left groups have been doing to help matters. Because they’ve been awfully quiet. The Tories have been marauding through the nation (although it seems to be a global phenomenon at
And now… the inevitable takedown of Russell Brand just as he says something sensible on the occasion of his guest editorship of the New Statesman magazine. Yes, we’ve all been saying the system sucks and we need a change for the betterment of the majority but, as Rusty Rockets acknowledges in his self-deprecating way (because
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Ineos. Grangemouth. Jim Ratcliffe. He’s finally reversed his decision to close half the plant, but how can one man hold a workforce and a nation to ransom? I can’t think of a better argument for nationalising crucial infrastructure industries. My friends The Bermondsey Joyriders are playing at Grangemouth, the first date of their Scottish tour
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British residents have been sent texts by the UK Border Agency telling them to “go home”. Two of them, Bobby Chan, a legal advisor for the Chinese community, and Suresh Grover of The Monitoring Group who was prominent in seeking justice in the Stephen Lawrence murder case, have received the threatening messages and we wonder
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