Putney Debater

Oh What a Lovely Democracy

If the treasurer of the Labour Party didn’t know about those loans; and if the people who loaned the money were then put up for peerages; and if peerages are given by No.10; then the conclusion is obvious: who knew was No.10. Adorno used to speak about the coincidence which is not just a coincidence.
No.10 – a useful euphemism. More evidence, if any were needed, that Mr Blair, the man who ignored the largest protest demonstration ever seen in London, and went to war on the coat-tails of Mr Danger (as Venezuela’s Chavez calls Bush the Son) – this is someone basically anti-democratic. Like Mrs Thatcher. (Whereas Chavez has won more genuine elections and referendums than any other elected leader anywhere in the world.)
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If I’d started this blog a few weeks earlier, I would no doubt have used it to report on my recent trip to Tehran for the Fajr Film Festival, but since not, my diary of the visit has instead been published in the first online edition of Vertigo Magazine. I still find it difficult to read magazines on-line, but this is an unashamed plug for a publication about independent film and video throughout the world – the print edition has been going since the early 90s – which is one of the happiest projects I’ve been associated with, and from which I’ve learned the most. Vertigo is one place where I don’t kibbitz… Continue reading →