Bush must go, Pt 2
I think I see a pattern emerging on this blog. Thanks to Claire. Madam Miaow says … visit Anna Chen’s website here: Home Anna’s food blog here: http://annacheneats.blogspot.com/
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Victoria’s nasty little secret
I found this expose of revolting labour practice at fancy underwear specialists Victoria’s Secret at Random Pottins. Thanks, Charlie. For all my lingerie needs I shall be sticking to good old M&S … DOH! Organisations like PETA are quick off the mark when it comes to cruelty to animals. How about cruelty to humans? Bob
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Bush must go!
No, not that Bush. The other one! Waiting for the third season DVD of Battlestar Galactica to drop in price, I’m filling in with Rome, the plush HBO double season box set telling the epic story of Julius Caesar’s rise to power. Boy! There’s a lot of pre-Christian debauchery we only saw alluded to in
Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven
The challenge: to tell the story of the tragic demise of the Respect party through satire and vulgar abuse of the literary classics or whichever other cultural medium floats your boat. Anyone uninterested in the ins and outs of the far left look away now. Today I am mostly quoting John Milton and Paradise Lost,
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We love your food but youse can sod off
The UK got its first Chinese politician this year (at MP level – it’s complicated) but, as luck would have it, she’s an MLA in Belfast, a city not most famed for its universal love. Anna Lo is the first ethnic politician to be elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly (Alliance Party) so you just
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The raptors are coming …
In a lighter satirical moment, Splintered Sunrise has had fun with Mark Anthony’s funeral speech from Julius Caesar. I’ve done it before but I’m having another crack at Yeats’s Second Coming: Burning and burning in the widening gyre The raptor cannot hear his conscience; Principles fall apart; the centre cannot hold;The blood-dimmed tide is loosed,
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