What’s It All About?
Preface No fridge, freezer, washing machine, central heating, colour television, car, foreign holidays, landline telephone, Internet or mobile phone. We had a choice of 3 television channels to choose from, and there was still f*ck all on aside from Top Of The Pops, a bunch of racist sitcoms and wrestling on a weekend. I know what you’re thinking here – post war Britain! Yes, but not 1950, this was 1970 and I was 8 years old. The (twin-tub) washing machine and spin dryer, colour television and telephones would have to wait until the 1980’s. As for the foreign holidays and central heating;…
Chinese Burns
I am not a communist, but I am an anticapitalist As far as Communism goes, if you call a bunch of Capitalists selling off their country's assets for their own avaricious and political gain a "collapse", consider this: What about Great Depression, the worst systemic banking crisis of the 20th century, or the 2008 International Banking Crisis, whereby we are left paying the price, whilst the people who caused it still live it up in Kensington & Chelsea with their Oligarch mates. The fucking irony is that remaining so called Communist countries are now playing the Capitalist game better than the…
A Tale Of Two Cities
For those who do not dwell on the cruel and barbarous actions of the Stasi, what is now often forgotten is that the GDR also represented an effort to build a completely new and egalitarian society. Gender equality and equal pay for men and women were part of the GDR from the very beginning. The 1949 constitution was direct and very clear: “Men and women are equal.” A law introduced in 1950 ensured that women retained their rights after marriage and introduced financial support for mothers who devoted their time to looking after their children. This applied not only to married…
Wise Words I
The older you get the stronger the wind gets—and it’s always in your face. —Pablo Picasso
Gatwick Blairport
The transport secretary Heidi Alexander tells the annual dinner of trade body, Airlines UK in London." I love flying – I always have". Meanwhile Kier Stammer (sic) bubbles with pride at the UK's progress on carbon emissions .......... oh well, thats politics. Or as the transport secretary and Margaret Thatcher would call it, "growth".
Howards End
62 hours of pure joy; for little more than a large whiskey. 62 hours of not wasting precious funds on booze, to be told; "Vapers Not Welcome". Is it any wonder that a record number of so called "pubs", closed last month? Truth is, there are hardly any real "boozers" left - ever since John Prescott declared "we are all middle class now", and 10 years after that introduced the ban on smoking as the ultimate coup de grace, so that people could take their kids into pubs (is that really wise in any case? We aint French after all). People,…
