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“We are not dreamers, we are the awakening from a dream which is turning into a nightmare” By Sarah Shin / 10 October 2011 Slavoj Žižek visited Liberty Plaza to speak to Occupy Wall Street protesters. Here is the full transcript of his speech. Don’t fall in love with yourselves, with the nice time we are having [...] The BBC have struck contemporary drama gold with this one. Mark Gatiss is behind it – writer/producer, with Steven Moffat. Good combo. (Excuse the guff code, BBC at it’s new tech onine best…)
Another outing for ‘Rand and the Hobarts’
Save Middlesex Philosophy – http://savemdxphil.com In late April 2010, Middlesex University decided to close down Philosophy, its highest research-rated subject; ever since, Middlesex students and staff, and many thousands of their supporters in the UK and around the world, have been battling to save it. Speaker – Tariq Ali, 15th May 2010 Middlesex [...] In its mania for jailing people, Britain has declared trivial offences crimes A libertarian coalition is emerging in the US to resist an ever expanding statute book. The need is just as urgent here I have a foolproof scheme for cutting crime in Britain. It would slash court overcrowding, rescue legal aid, empty prisons and [...]
Jane Bown at The Observer Jane Bown interview on Women’s Hour 2006 Why live your life through a view-finder? Photography, once a noble art, has become, thanks to the move to digital, a mental illness, says Nigel Farndale. What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare. Click. No time to stand beneath the boughs – click, click – and [...] 14.25 and SWMBO told me I had to call the Fire Brigade! I could smell smoke but dismissed it as someone burning shit, locally. She, being ‘curious’ by nature investigated. It appeared that some bags of rubbish left in the back alley were alight. [...] The nipper and I went out for a wee drive today; up to Farmfoods to get a couple of trays of Tango for SWMBO – got a couple of Dr Oetker pizzas while we were there for tea tonight. Plus some Pataks curry sauces – at 69p they were too cheap not to. We dropped [...] How about a slice of humble pie? The redoubtable Ivan Dembina – comedian, promoter and comic savant – was once asked in my presence what it was like being a comedian. His answer took the form of a joke: A comedian playing a small gig comes off stage to find a fellow comic he [...] |
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