Non-Thursday music link, on Thursday

March 31, 2011 in BAE, music

We’ve not done one of these for a while, and I meant to get around to a Loleatta Holloway tribute link at some point. Here goes – an absolute killer of a remix that dropped out of the YouTube playlist by chance. Meanwhile, depress yourself! The auction of machine tools and fittings, including a 10m [...]

marching on together

March 28, 2011 in protest, Rugby League, socialism

For some reason, London rugby league fans are Leeds-influenced – they sing Marching on Together and a version of We are Leeds..Rhinos. Keighley may have fucked up against Whitehaven, but the Keighley and Airedale GMB were next to us on the demo. Photos are here. It was a fantastic day – like Jamie Kenny said [...]

a little rugby league blogging

March 28, 2011 in Rugby League

A bit of Rugby League blogging. It’s been a weird start to the season. Not so long ago – but after more than a few games – London/sorry/Harlequins RL were top of the league. (Regarding the name, I’m not the only one. I saw a Fulham RL shirt at this weekend’s game.) And the top [...]

March

March 25, 2011 in protest

I’ll be out tomorrow. Obviously. Setting off from Archway tube at 1015. Anyway, updates will be at the twitter feed.

now he’s stopped, he’s much better in our sex life and in our general life

March 20, 2011 in action

At my local gym on Friday, I was accused of abusing steroids. Just like that – I’d finished my weights session and moved on to the abs, when some random guy approached me and said “Here – are you on gear?” No. “I mean, are you on gear?” No, I’m not on steroids. [Cancel the [...]

aspirational torturer

March 20, 2011 in Egypt, moral horror, surveillance

It says something about the modern thinkers that one of the Egyptian spooks the Piggipedia team identified turns out to be working in the “Security and Loss Prevention” department of a major hypermarket chain. Having lifted photos with names on them from their HQ, they started searching PofacedBook – sorry, LinkedIn – for them, and [...]

the only thing worse than being exploited…

March 20, 2011 in architecture, Yorkshire

Is if the exploiters miss you out, said Joan Robinson of capitalism. A twofer of Owen Hatherley on Manchester. Thoughts: it’s surely a slightly odd idea that London is rich because of the housing market, rather than the other way around, although I can certainly imagine an unusually dense Blairite town-hall politician getting that impression. [...]

declare independence. don’t let them do that to you!

March 20, 2011 in 4GW, music, special relationships

Alliance Géostrategique is having a month on the theme of independence. Some thoughts: First of all, we’re constantly exhorted to act as individuals but also to be aware of interdependence. “Interdependence” seems to be the neoliberal mirror image of “solidarity” – rather than being a force that makes for positive liberty, it seems to be [...]

Admin: econoposts

March 20, 2011 in admin, economics

Two new posts on Stable & Principled: why George Osborne is a strange kind of Keynesian, and a surprisingly radical response to the crisis from the LSE. Prior reading: here.

News

March 20, 2011 in press, Zimbabwe

The Zimbabwe Daily News is back after eight years of repression.