April 2011
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“All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers…. Each one owes infinitely...”
– François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, French archbishop and author (1651 - 1715) in Dialogue des Morts, “Socrate et Alcibiade” (via mohandasgandhi)
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Muslims Against The Crusades.
They were planning to protest the Royal Wedding, I can only assume they called it off because they realised they’ve been successful in their campaign since 1272.
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Just a quick reminder of what the Conservative...
Sayeeda Warsi, the Conservative party chair who recently warned that the alternative vote could lead to politicians “pandering to extremism,” appears to have appealed to BNP voters herself when she was standing for parliament back in 2005.
This is not the first time controversy has been raised about Baroness Warsi’s campaigning techniques during the 2005 election. After the campaign it emerged...
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Personally I think we should all vote Yes to AV...
Because the No to AV campaign has been so bloody patronising.
We’re told by them that AV is too complicated and we won’t understand.
We’re lied to by them about the need for new vote counting machines and the supposed £250,000,000 cost to the taxpayer.
We’re told somehow that AV will mysteriously make the loser of a two party competition (such as a boxing match on the No...
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I'm not sure Ed Miliband is right about AV
Ed Miliband’s analysis of the 20th Century is broadly that it was a century dominated by the Tories because there was almost consistently a third, centre or centre-left party that was dividing support for the Labour Party. According to Miliband’s analysis, the one centre-right party, the Conservative Party, has been able to dominate under FPTP because there is only one centre-right...
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Labour's strategy seems to be a waste of Balls
To me it doesn’t make any sense, Ed Balls is pretty much the Keynesian giant of the Labour Party, he’s a good economist and a good politician too - and he manages to get George Osborne on the run often enough. But the Labour Party just wastes its opportunity. Instead of Labour unveiling something that could truly work (like a stimulus and some proper regulation) they just buy into the...
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Cavafy - The God Abandons Antony
When suddenly, at midnight, you hear an invisible procession going by with exquisite music, voices, don’t mourn your luck that’s failing now, your work that failed, your life’s plans all proving deceptive—don’t mourn them uselessly. As one long prepared, and graced with courage, say goodbye to her, the Alexandria that is leaving. Above all, don’t fool yourself, don’t say it was a...
“It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite; only a sense of...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via oceanofmind)
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Waking the Dead
RIP.
Definitely one of the better shows to grace out TV screens in the past few years. Trevor Eve is just a fantastic actor. And the last episode was certainly no let down.
And I’m so glad they managed to end it on something of a high, it’s all to easy to end a thriller by killing the main character, but that sucks.
In a way, I’m sad to see it go, but I’m glad it...
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Abolishing the Monarchy
With the Royal Wedding creeping up, and the increasingly sickly news coverage that is accompanying it, I think its high time I voiced my own mean spirited republicanism.
The argument I alway see deployed in favour of the monarchy is ‘Oh they bring in tourism.’ But people don’t actually come to see the Queen; they come to see the buildings that she lives in. So actually, kicking...
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Why we shouldn't all be 'in this together'
So the axe fell on Wednesday, and the term Black Wednesday took on a meaning well beyond anything John Major ever dealt with.
Simply put, if we weren’t in the shit before, we truly are now. The government financial year turned over and the cuts are here. Osborne continues to echo his claim that ‘We’re all in this together’. Not only is it ridiculous to claim that the rich...
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Nick Clegg's New Statesman Interview
Clegg's Son: Papa, why do the students hate you?
Nick Clegg: Because, son, I'm a lying bastard.
Anonymous asked: Are you gay?
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Michael Gove's Education Policy
Before you see the name of a Tory minister and assume that this is an utter destruction of everything he says and does, think again. Okay, so he is the smarmiest, most unpleasant little man you could ever hope to meet, but he may have a few good ideas. (Somewhere under the steaming heap of shit that this government calls its education policy.)
So here it is. I disagree on ‘free...
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Earth To Bella (Part II) - Incubus
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“That’s when you know you’ve found somebody special. When you can...”
– Pulp Fiction
