As the rot sets in, here’s a poem about the collapse of our institutions. A big rock has been lifted and look what’s crawling out: Hillsborough, press hacking, Jimmy Savile at Broadmoor and the BBC, wars, widespread robbery of the poor to pay for the rich. Capitalist production moves from the west to Asia and […]
Peach: poem about Savile, Hillsborough, Leveson, the whole sorry lot! Read More »
In all the excitement of Danny Boyle’s stunning London Olympics opening ceremony, I hadn’t realised there might be a second phase of pleasure to be had for us armchair enthusiasts. Shrilling out from the widespread sigh of relief that Britain did not suck in front of a billion global viewers is a crescendo of protest
Danny Boyle backlash: what the Right know is being said at London Olympics 2012 Read More »
I’m performing this afternoon at the China In Britain event at Westminster University, 4.45pm. It’s a talk with performance extracts from my shows and a bit of poetry. The wonderful Charles Shaar Murray is my musical accompanist, playing guitar. I’ll be referring to various topics so here are the links for you to explore further.
China In Britain at Westminster Uni: Anna and Charles Shaar Murray on the bill Read More »
Great news; we’re finally getting the videos of Greg Palast’s inspirational week in London posted. Anna Chen MC introduces the evening: “Capitalism’s not dead, it just smells funny,” she said paraphrasing the great Frank Zappa’s comment about jazz. “Capitalism is mutating and going places only, this time, it’s not taking us with it.” Greg Palast’s
Greg Palast’s Vultures’ Picnic UK launch: first videos Read More »
I’m probably being generous to the Tories by accusing them of wanting to take us back to Victorian levels of poverty. What I really suspect is that they want to drag us back to feudal times when the robber barons ruled and it was dog-eat-dog all the way to an early grave. In his latest
Greg Palast on why the Euro is doing what it was designed to do Read More »
The bankers staged a coup while out attention was elsewhere and now everything is run for them. This item from December— found by Niall Spooner-Harvey — sums up the situation: Unchecked by toothless regulators and set free by poorly drawn capital requirements, the banks rampaged across the continent, chucking cheap money at Greece and Italy,
Time is All Wrong: new poem about bankers, politicians, crisis and us Read More »
