Gleanings
Here’s an excellent piece on Marx to celebrate his 188th birthday a few days ago, from The Pinocchio Theory. Meanwhile,
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Mountain Piano
A piano has been found near the summit of Britain’s highest mountain. Ben Nevis is only 4,418ft, but all the same, the fellows who found it – volunteer conservationists – can’t explain how it got there. The only clue is … Continue reading
Chavez in London
Just seen on Channel Four News: a snippet from Chavez’s news conference in London today. A senior journalist asks him why he isn’t seeing Blair, and he replies, you appear to be an experienced journalist, and yet you ask such … Continue reading
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Are you pleased with the world?
‘Are you pleased with the current condition of the world?’ (Mr A to Mr B), or What did Ahmadinejad actually say?
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Iran surrounded
Needlenose says “if you’re wondering why the Ayatollahs are acting a touch, um… cagey about their military plans, then perhaps this handy pictogram of the region with countries where the U.S. has military bases (or has been granted overflight rights … Continue reading
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Acting up
Back in February, actors starring in Michael Winterbottom’s politically-charged The Road To Guantanamo were held by British police under anti-terrorism legislation on their return from Berlin where the film premiered. One of the actors, Rizwan Ahmed, said he was verbally abused, … Continue reading
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News junkie
If you’re a news junkie and you’re working at home and so you listen to the news at intervals during the day, you can sometimes see it evolving, from the moment a fresh item first arrives until it’s been properly … Continue reading
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Bach in the slums
This is what they get up to in Venezuela… and Washington’s scared… Bach in the slums – Morning Star ”The Venezuelan Youth Orchestra under Sir Simon Rattle will be in Britain for the Proms in August – a concert not to … Continue reading
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Detroit sold for scrap
From The Onion: Detroit Sold For Scrap : ‘Detroit, a former industrial metropolis in southeastern Michigan with a population of just under 1 million, was sold at auction Tuesday to bulk scrap dealers and smelting foundries across the United States.
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An event that didn’t quite happen
Been to see ‘Greenwich Degree Zero’, the installation by Rod Dickinson and Tom McCarthy at the Beaconsfield Gallery in London (and later, Rod tells me, in various other venues), which reconstructs an event in 1894 when a French anarchist was … Continue reading
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