Bush says off record to Blair, ‘You see the irony is what they need to is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit and it's all over...’

A man in a London tube station says to his friend in a low voice that a metal detector was a, ‘piece of shit that wouldn't stop anyone’ and is jumped by police and fined £80.

Can we send those same ( Read more... )

Yer; they've kicked Tony's arrogant arse. About bloody time. I don't want this country to become a police state with laws akin to those of the countries that we chastise and despise for their lack of human rights. I'd rather run the small risk of dying from a terrorist attack and live in a country that I can have some respect for than live with ( Read more... )

Base Camp Balata

An Exhibition of Photographs by Children in the West Bank

Private View: 6 - 9pm, Tuesday, 26 July 2005

Exhibition dates: 26 -31 July 2005, 12 -5pm

The Gallery:
The Spitz
Old Spitalfields Market
109 Commercial Street
London E1 6BG

Contact: seb@spitz.co.uk or phone 020 73929033

Tube: Liverpool St (Bishopsgate exit).

Bus: 149, 242, 26, 48, ( Read more... )

Well, Warren_ellis triggered this. I know; I’m rather slow and out of date with it. Wild_boys gave it to me ages ago, complete with lots of lovely links to fill up my hungry hard disk with. ‘fraid there’s no such gifts from this girl, but here it is:-

1. Total amount of music files on your computer:

A mere speck (400MB). I’ve only recently acquired a computer with enough ( Read more... )

Over the last few days numbers have fallen at me from the media causing confusion, indignation and all sorts of unease in this normally numerate head of mine, as they too regularly are want to in this world we live in:-

·       The Israeli government plans to give $9 billion1 compensation to the 8-9000 people who will be forced to evacuate disputed ( Read more... )

You nearly got a Friday night drunk post, on the joys of dancing in the midst of a masked crowd, to multiple electroclash versions of Tainted Love and Nancy Sinatra, surrounded by all the treasures of the V&A museum. Red wine flowed sufficiently for me to cycle home in fancy fishnets, fake fur and even feather mask (it’s what the crowds requested, ( Read more... )

Armistice day seems to have growing poignancy as I age.  I'd intended to write an 11/11 post about the honourable soldier, my Grampy, and the complete fucked-upness of so may wars and the behaviour that motivates them.  Today is Remembrance Sunday, one of the days I was obliged to go to church in my childhood, in spite of my early declaration of ( Read more... )

If you get a chance, go to this, which I saw tonight.  OK you've only a few days left, and you're unlikely to be in London, and they only have returns left, and it's in Dalston, but try.  It was the most powerful piece of Shakespeare I've ever seen, and its transposition to a violent, war torn Africa brought it to life and gave it relevance I'd ( Read more... )

Embedded was a well acted and staged, engaging and entertaining piece, though pretty much preaching to the converted.  Apparently, it caused a bit of a media stir in the US; over hear it was just another political play.  We knew it was manipulation of the truth that took us there; we knew that there's been little honesty and much media manipulation ( Read more... )