Oh hilarious god ( Read more... )

This is copied from the petition itself as I think it says it better than I can ( Read more... )

UCU is balloting it's memebers at Kings pover strike action. Which makes me feel weird because I'll almost certainly have to cross picket lines of another union. Cos it would be illegal for me not to and i could be fired but it still feels wrong. Obviously I'd feel worse about undertaking illegal secondary action and being summarily dismissed ( Read more... )

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/oct/28/royal-mail-undercover-postal-strikeRead more... )

Polling please,

Buffy is cooler than blade. Five minutes into killing vampires and Blade has made no quips.
Buffy would have quipped.

Andrew disagrees with me

So David Starkey said some stupid thing about how women have feminised history and focussed on wives at the expense of the the GREAT WHITE MEN who shaped EVERYTHING ( Read more... )

Steerpikelet has a very interesting post on her blog Penny Red, discussing our generation and the crap press we get and why she thinks this is undeserved and how she sees our generation's political engagement and allegiances. In particular she refers to the 'Stop-the-War' generation. Personally I struggle with any discussion of 'a generation', ( Read more... )

Right about now my Grandfather is being cremated. I'm just posting what my Dad and I asked to be read out in memory of him.

( William Charles Neilson )