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Thoughts of Chairperson Mikey: February 2010
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Thoughts of Chairperson Mikey. Life is not an easy matter. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness." Leon Trotsky. Saturday, February 27, 2010. There is a new magazine out this week, produced by my friends in the Fourth International. More when it becomes available. Links to this post. Friday, February 26, 2010. An excellent new blog.
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Actually Existing: The cold in our eyes
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This blog is now closed. It isn't really anywhere - it's somewhere else. Friday, August 04, 2006. The cold in our eyes. Is it anti-semitic to criticise Israel? Is it anti-semitic to criticise Zionism? Is it anti-semitic, even, to oppose. Zionism - to believe that the state of Israel (as established in 1948) was a thoroughly bad idea which should be replaced by something better? Sir Oswald, would you care to comment? Had developed a similar argument). Since Fascists are primarily concerned with buildi...
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Actually Existing: Never be your woman
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This blog is now closed. It isn't really anywhere - it's somewhere else. Friday, November 24, 2006. Never be your woman. Today the newspapers report. That sexual harassment of teachers and pupils in schools is widespread, and that girls are starting to accept sexist language as the norm . Have I simply dragged some value set from the distant past, which I want to see imposed upon this new social avant garde? The horror, the horror. I am not a Hegelian. oh all right then, I'm a recovering. Take us back fo...
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Actually Existing: No secrets left to conceal
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This blog is now closed. It isn't really anywhere - it's somewhere else. Thursday, December 21, 2006. No secrets left to conceal. Dr Phil Edwards is the national press officer of the BNP. And, by the way, Dr Phil Edwards isn't his real name. It is Stuart Russell. When asked, Dr Edwards/Russell tetchily says he uses a pseudonym for 'personal reasons' and it's none of my business why. He is not unusual among his cohorts. Several have used names other than their own for 'personal reasons'. The Doc and his m...
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Actually Existing: The most cruel has passed
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This blog is now closed. It isn't really anywhere - it's somewhere else. Monday, December 11, 2006. The most cruel has passed. Newsflash. General Augusto Pinochet of Chile has just died. His condition is described as 'satisfactory'. Like Rob (and Ellis. Y deja que el sol alumbre. Por todos los rincones de tu casa. Nuestra vida no ha sido hecha. Para rodearla de sombras y tristezas. María ya ves,. No basta nacer, crecer, amar,. Para encontrar la felicidad. Pasó lo más cruel,. Y tus manos de miel. And your...
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Actually Existing: Eat y'self fitter
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This blog is now closed. It isn't really anywhere - it's somewhere else. Monday, February 12, 2007. Inconsequentially: it occurred to me the other day that I'm firmly convinced that some kinds of food and drink are good for you. In most cases this belief doesn't appear to have any rational basis - although in some cases it's probably based on experience, which is almost as good. Anyone else have a similar list at the back of their mind, or is it just me? Those clear broth ones. They're good for you&#...
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Actually Existing: Music of the future
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This blog is now closed. It isn't really anywhere - it's somewhere else. Friday, February 02, 2007. Music of the future. About twenty years ago there was a Radio 4 sketch show called Son of Cliché. Scripted by the not-yet-celebrated Rob Grant and Dave Naylor. Nick Wilton was one of the regulars (what's he. Doing these days, I wondered when I remembered this; the answer's " panto, mainly. And the music was by - Peter Brewis,. Peter Brewis, Peter Brewis,. Peter Brewis, Peter Brewis.". Well, I liked it.
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Actually Existing: The best one of the year
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This blog is now closed. It isn't really anywhere - it's somewhere else. Wednesday, March 28, 2007. The best one of the year. Two announcements. Firstly, this is the last post here; there are no posts newer than 28th March 2007 on this blog and there won't be any in future. I've merged AE with my work weblog Cloud Street. And moved to Wordpress; the result is The Gaping Silence. Secondly, here's a book:. More specifically, it's funny. I'm not going to tell you it's all. Funny would be prima facie. Would ...
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Actually Existing: Red, gold and green
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This blog is now closed. It isn't really anywhere - it's somewhere else. Tuesday, February 20, 2007. Red, gold and green. David Cameron: active hypocrite or passive hypocrite? Hypocrite, who advocates standards for other people which he couldn't meet himself. I'd got this far in my thinking about Cameron - which was broadly in alignment with Jim's - when a colleague asked an unexpected question: What if he'd been a shoplifter? And, relatedly, would anybody much care? On one of the two or three days when ...
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Actually Existing: It's no problem, you can't have it
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This blog is now closed. It isn't really anywhere - it's somewhere else. Saturday, November 25, 2006. It's no problem, you can't have it. Robert Skidelsky, author in 1975 of a rather nasty biography of Oswald Mosley (on which I've commented. Will do again), is going strong as a cross-bench peer and occasional newspaper commentator. Witness this piece. In last Friday's Indie. Wrote in the current LRB. Had it right, again: "A critique seeking to go beyond the spectacle must know how to wait. Said O'Brien i...
