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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In my own naive way, I like to think that lefties can think and chew gum at the same time, whatever the evidence to the contrary. Right now that means opposing another bloody fiasco in the middle east in the form of an attack on Iran AND having the capacity to criticise the revolting practices
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Your chance to vote for the biggest corporate scumbags lobbying in the European Union. They are all foul so it’s hard to choose between them. Here’s a taster: “Cabinet Stewart for running the International Council of Capital Formation (ICCF) – this so-called ‘unique European think-tank’ is in fact a front group for US-based opponents of
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My mate, punk-rock blues guitarist Gary Lammin, witnessed a fine bit of irony at the public launch of the “Yo! What Happened to Peace” exhibition at The Foundry in trendy Shoreditch on Tuesday. Some bright spark had decided that mood of the cafe upstairs from the collection of anti-war posters would be enhanced by the
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Has anyone ever seen Heather Mills and Ann Coulter in the same room? Which is which in the headshots? Yup, Macca actually married Ann Coulter and this is what she has over the old liberal softie. Heather is a snob and a social climber but she doesn’t deserve the level of vitriol she’s getting from
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While the Left burns, this is the sort of thing happening in the big wide world. One woman was so incensed by the war in Iraq that she exercised what we all thought was her freedom of speech and read out the list of British soldiers killed there at the Cenotaph on the Day of
