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Too many hills to climb: some reasons why Labour lost | 33revolutionsperminute's Blog
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Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join 1,625 other followers. Too many hills to climb: some reasons why Labour lost. 1 The economic crisis, however unfairly, shattered Labour’s hard-won reputation for economic competence and allowed all the old post-70s prejudices to come out of hibernation. 3 The coalition exceeded expectations by staying together and appearing generally competent and durable. 8 helped by the majority of the press that lo...
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April | 2015 | 33revolutionsperminute's Blog
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Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join 1,625 other followers. Charlie Hebdo, PEN and the “wrong” kind of free speech. Explanations have come in dribs and drabs. The longest, and worst, was published yesterday by Francine Prose. At least she doesn’t indulge in victim-blaming to the grotesque extent that Garry Trudeau. In his statement, Teju Cole. Does he not realise that Badawi’s enemies are the same as Charlie Hebdo’s? She doesn’t say....
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Never mind the ballots | 33revolutionsperminute's Blog
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Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join 1,625 other followers. Never mind the ballots. In the past week or so I’ve been sent links to a few election-focussed protest songs so I’ve collected them all here. Cian Ciaran and Steve Mason Don’t Give It Away. Collaboration between the former Mr Beta Band and a Super Furry Animal. Ciaran: “. Cause of Accident – Sick of This Shit. Captain SKA – Liar Liar (Election Remix). May 6, 2015.
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06 | May | 2015 | 33revolutionsperminute's Blog
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Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join 1,625 other followers. Never mind the ballots. In the past week or so I’ve been sent links to a few election-focussed protest songs so I’ve collected them all here. Cian Ciaran and Steve Mason Don’t Give It Away. Collaboration between the former Mr Beta Band and a Super Furry Animal. Ciaran: “. Cause of Accident – Sick of This Shit. Captain SKA – Liar Liar (Election Remix). May 6, 2015.
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The ballad of John and Russell | 33revolutionsperminute's Blog
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Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join 1,625 other followers. The ballad of John and Russell. 8220;The press continued to treat John with undisguised hostility. The Times objected, in its ruling-class fashion, to the “unfortunate image of hippy earnestness directing liberal causes from the deep upholstery of a Beatle’s income.”. 8217; How about giving us some, chum? Source: Jon Wiener – Come Together: John Lennon in His Time. Readers Recom...
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11 | May | 2015 | 33revolutionsperminute's Blog
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Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join 1,625 other followers. Too many hills to climb: some reasons why Labour lost. 1 The economic crisis, however unfairly, shattered Labour’s hard-won reputation for economic competence and allowed all the old post-70s prejudices to come out of hibernation. 3 The coalition exceeded expectations by staying together and appearing generally competent and durable. 8 helped by the majority of the press that lo...
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Music and politics in 2014 | 33revolutionsperminute's Blog
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Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join 1,625 other followers. Music and politics in 2014. After a grand jury didn’t indict a Ferguson, Mo., police officer last month in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, D’Angelo called his co-manager Kevin Liles. He said: ‘Do you believe this? Do you believe it? Mr Liles said. And then we just sat there in silence. That is when I knew he wanted to say something. New York Times, December 17, 2014. The be...
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Blood on the drums: Whiplash and the madness of ambition | 33revolutionsperminute's Blog
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Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join 1,625 other followers. Blood on the drums: Whiplash and the madness of ambition. SPOILER WARNING: If you haven’t seen Whiplash yet, major plot points are revealed below so you might want to come back later. In a typically entertaining screed. But he quit, so Whiplash is a personal what-if? Nineteen-year-old prodigy Andrew Neimann (Miles Teller) is only vulnerable to Fletcher because he fundamentally a...
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