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Written by Prime Suspect
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Tuesday, 27 February 2007 |
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The Biftas are always a site for extreme sycophancy, note with displeasure, for example, the week-long LA whoring of Breakfast TV’s one-who-isn’t-Natasha Kaplinksi. But Queen award winner Helen Mirren’s encomium for the real-life Regina left a particularly bad taste in the mouth, reminding us that the special branch of the executive is still with us and about as vital to public life as John Reid.
"There's many countries in the world that one would not be allowed to make this film. And I think it's generous of the royal family and Her Majesty the Queen to sit back and not interfere, and I think it's very gracious and very noble of her."
That’s special, not only eulogising the function of the monarchy (full-title, if you please) but also extrapolating that to a defence of those special freedoms which Tony is always bombing out of the reckoning of others (unless you come over here and get well naturalised). Maybe there should be a regophile register: Mirren is a beneficiary of a certain kind of “special relationship' (usually a defence given by incestuous fiddlers). St Mirren should be sent out on a date with Frank McAvennie for that shameless fingering of the monarch's media minge. Love Street's finest has been in some great films/Tv dramas but royalist propaganda is a great way to forget all those and focus the mind on what an establishment stooge she has become. Old age may not be the only reason for this genuflection, given her Russian imperialist heritage.
“Buckingham Palace said the monarch was pleased at Mirren's success and indicated that the actor could expect an invitation to meet the Queen, possibly for lunch,” said left-of-centre daily The Guardian. Well, why wouldn’t she, after this cost-free PR coup. Appearing in a boring, predictably deferent elegy to the Queen would normally earn the actor in the title role nothing but ridicule but because it's Helen 'super sass me' Mirren, the line between fiction and reality is necessarily blurred. We advise that the majesterial one start talks now on her fee for the role of fascist plaything Wallis Simpson in Guy Ritchie's 'The King We Never Had'. She must start soon because it's only a matter of time before she's 'appreciated' a bit too much.
If she keeps this level of deference up she’ll soon be a target of regicide too.
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Written by Arabiyya
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Friday, 16 February 2007 |
"The Baath had been founded in Syria in 1941 - inspired, ironically, by Britain's re-invasion of Iraq - as a secular, pan-Arab movement intended to lift the burden of guilt and humiliation which had lain across the Arab world for so many generations."
Hitler's Military Directive no 30, 1941: "The Arab liberation movement in the Middle East is our natural ally against England.. In this connection the rising in Iraq has special importance."
From Fisk's tome...
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Written by Sammy Snake
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Friday, 09 February 2007 |
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We live in a terrorised society, and if you doubted that reminders have been wide-rife in recent weeks, culminating in a ratcheting up of the terralert to yam purple. It's a wonderful time to be involved in American forms of social control, as Tes Jowl confirmed with the supercasino splash. Home Sec Reid has made it clear that he is on the case - actual terror plotters will be rounded up with innocent brownskins (a stay in Cuba optional) for intentionally bewildering effect. He announced plans (after the first round of arrests in Birmingham) to detain the islamofacists for far more than a February-month. Though the government would go on to charge some of the Muslim soldier mitherers, two people were released early from the first round of arrests, just more justification for government continuing the 'debate' about the 90-day detention period. If the Blair government is good at anything, it's a total refusal to accept the will of parliament. Tony can always find a way through - a turd way. And who was it that told the press about the plot to kill a British serviceman, was it the police or the government? The release of details to the press breeds a very unhealthy relationship and I suspect that populist idiot Reid ensured that even before they had even arrested everyone the ‘campaigning; Murdoch press were informed of the details of this investigation/plot; the only people that didn't know about the plot were those that were arrested. Indeed if you were conducting a counter-terrorist investigation and you hadn't charged anyone would you want the proposed plot be publicised in such a way to damage the collection of evidence? Three sures no. |
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Last Updated ( Friday, 09 February 2007 )
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Written by Mur Dem
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Tuesday, 30 January 2007 |
The onslaught of political expediency perverts policy and discourse. We have been consistent in unspinning Blairite yarns and keeping Cameron in his vacuum. We never bury the bad news of their influence. But the career opportunists don't end at the front bench of the lower house, they appear everywhere in modern social life (as long as it is through a camera), often believing they can take their flexipolitik into Westminster itself.
We have consistently culled another chancer, Jeremy McClintock. His New Year previews, the ‘Voice Arises' piece with award-winning Guardian writer Simon Shitintone, local broadcasts, rabid radio phone-ins - his Islamophobia on display - all have been given short thrift. We have even shown his early shameless attempts at vanity documentary, making it clear that this individual is endemically corrupt, abusing his privileged background and financial backers to sometimes-nefarious end (Albanian kickbacks anyone?). Having tracked him down to his RPP office, we also publish this picture that shows he is hellbent on the Houses of Parliament, but that he treats it like a game. No desperate juxtaposition is beyond this hapless hopeful.
It is symptomatic of the wider malaise in political culture that transparent, careerist buffoons like McClintock garner press coverage, no matter how obscure the publication. He's like a posh delinquent, strolling down a row of cars trying all the doors. We could see this fool coming a mile off, and thought it was a relative of Jeffrey Archer's - maybe he is.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 31 January 2007 )
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Written by Dacres in Space
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Monday, 29 January 2007 |
Paul Dacre is the unheard voice of Britain. As editor of the curtain twitchers' choice, the Daily Mail, he seldom has a chance to air his views/slag off his enemies, so at a recent lecture at the LCC took the rare opportunity. Ruffling most material was his belief that the BBC operates a "closed thought system, operating a kind of Orwellian newspeak".
Sheesh, not even most of his 2.4m readers would go for that one, particularly when they realise Dacre looks like Clive Anderson. Apparently the BBC's hold on Britons is so strong that David Cameron is having to make "blood sacrifices to the BBC god" in order to get up the poll ratings! Well, cultural marxists would never approve a tory willingly.
Dacre is the sort of obscure figure who enjoys a disproportionate amount of power without accountability. His paper can follow a tough line on every bete noire and ignore the consequences. His assertion to the Culture Media & Sport Select Committee about "standing for election every day with his readers" is rubbish.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 29 January 2007 )
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Written by Shitwrecked
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Tuesday, 23 January 2007 |
It's that "can't help it" excuse again, from a posh girl this time: "Lucy is definitely not a racist. She's a well-mannered girl from a decent family.
"But she's only 18. She does have a big mouth and sometimes speaks without thinking. She says things she doesn't mean."
We'd also like to take this opportunity to thank C4 for raising a debate about racism - its spirit of impartial nonjudgement is just what these times need.
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