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Music Update : Series 1 : Number 1
Ok, so here's My Muse. I wrote this little ditty some time ago. It was supposed to be like a short song from a modern operetta - theatrical in mood and style. Anyway, see how it suits you.
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European Socialists: Defiant in disarray?
Ilana Bet-El writing for The Guardian's Comment is Free online blog has been making some rather odd claims about European socialism and socialists. Even though these articles are opinion pieces, I would have expected something a little bit less speculative and less simplistic - whether the conclusions were right or wrong. Anyway, the opinion piece is along the lines of: "European socialism: defiant in disarray - The European right are sitting ducks – so why are the socialists still shooting ea
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What needs to be done.
What Needs To Be Done : A modern, secular and fundamentally democratic constitution for a civil society, to include all aspects of the UN Declaration of Human Rights, Children's Rights, and a Bill of Rights, incorporated as the highest law of the land.
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Racist Incident and Police Stupidity
I am a person of habit. Today I went to the Cordoba May Fair. I walked down to the town square, as I always do, and took the bus to the fair ground.
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Recondite Antisemtism on the Right
There have been numerous claims on various blogs that the European left provides a home to racism and anti-Semitism. This "work in progress" blog entry will be used to highlight the anti-Semitic remarks of the so called right-wing "friends of Israel"; friends, as in "with friends like these, who needs enemies?".
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LGBT - Political Correctness Gone Mad
Jonathan Ross's gay 'joke' was wrong: Homophobia and discrimination are still rife around the world. We should not allow our public figures to get away with them. Jane Czyzselska.
Every day, almost everywhere around the world gay, lesbian and transgender people face violence, abuse, rape and hate crimes because they are not conforming to social stereotypes about the way they should appear and behave as men or women.
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New Labour Lords Prayer
Lettuce spray ..
Our Tony, who are't inflatable
Hollow be thy name
Thy prison come
Though should be done
In Den Haag as in the Old Bailey
Give us back this day our old Labour party
And forgive you not your trespassing
As we will not forgive those who trespass against us
And lead us no more, not even in cheating on expenses
But deliver us from your Third Way
For thine is the Scrubs
The ego and the gory
Forever and ever
Sod orf!
Amen
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Mario Benedetti, 1920 To 2009
The Uruguayan writer Mario Orlando Hamlet Hardy Brenno Benedetti Farugia, better known as Mario Benedetti, is no longer with us. Born in the small town of Paso de los Toros in the depertment of Tacuarembó, on the 14th of September 1920, He died in his home in the city of Montevideo, this last Sunday (17/5/2009), at the age of 88.
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Are we there yet? Poem to Carol Ann Duffy
Are we there yet? Poem to Carol Ann Duffy
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On hearing complaints about the new poet laurate - Part 1
Misogynists and awkward geezers
Homophobes, misanthropic wheezers
Lesbian hating little fops
Sunday drivers, bloated chops
Tiny blokes with little clue
Upside down and sniffing poo
Not much chance that we'll get through
Well, feck 'em all, eh Father Ted?
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More on the Poet Laureate complaints
Poetry?
Feck orf!
I don't like poems.
I hate poems.
I can't abide poems.