Public Service Announcement
Just in case you've been living in a Chinese pipe, I thought I'd alert you to Adam Curtis' new documentary All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (AWOBMOLG, as all the cool kids are calling it).
View ArticleSomething to make teachers angry
If you're a teacher and you're being balloted about whether to strike, there's a handy thingummy here that will allow you to calculate exactly how much you're being screwed by proposed Government...
View ArticleAWOBMOLG Doomed Liveblog Attempt
9:07 Adam Curtis is now highlighting for all the Bioshock players who didn't get it exactly what the game was satirising. For other good summaries of Her Bonkersness, see Action Philosophers (sample...
View ArticleAWOBMOLG: Perhaps not doomed, but probably pointless, liveblog 2
Since last week's liveblog worked OK, I'm going to give it another go tonight. I'm quite looking forward to a critique of the idea of an ecosystem, personally.21:03 Interesting start - mainly for the...
View ArticleUnanswered Questions of Some Importance
I didn't get to watch AWOBMOLG live this week so I didn't liveblog it. Might well post a review when I've got a bit more time though. However, never mind all that now because Who finished last week and...
View ArticleOne out, all out
So the results are in and barring major government climb downs, we will be on strike on the 30th June.I thought it was just worth reiterating the reasons why we'll be out.We are being asked to work...
View ArticleGuardian in 'headline that literally cannot be true' oddness
I mean, if you think about it for a second,'World's oldest person dies aged 114'can't actually be possible, can it?Just sayin'.
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I Don't Think Much of Ed Milliband's New Tattoo
Sometimes I can't help but think these kind of things are a mistake. I mean, once it's done, it's permanent. It's the sort of thing that can make you squirm with embarrassment for years if you don't...
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Might find this handy
I know I'll find a use for it...I think it came from these guys - cheers!
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Off to a strike meeting in a minute, but this tickled me:'Is US TV too leftwing?'And as an example of leftwing, the Graun's put up a picture of The West Wing. I shit you not.Dear America,Thank you for...
View ArticleStrike!
First off, sorry this is late. The strike kept me pretty busy all day, then I was off to Marxism 2011 straight after work on Friday (of which more later). Anyway, this is more of a diary entry than an...
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In Praise of Chris Bryant
Chris Bryant is coming dangerously close to restoring my faith in elected representatives. Yesterday there was this, and today there was this!Come the revolution, I for one will aim to miss. His...
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How Not to Get a Good Night's Sleep
I was about to go to bed when I thought I'd check up on Lenin. It turns out he's had an article in today's Graun about the Murdoch implosion, which obviously I'm finding satisfying on a number of...
View ArticleBombardier: La Lutte Commence (ou possiblement, Continue)
I've just come from an open organising meeting called by the RMT to kick off the campaign to save 1500 jobs at Bombardier (and thousands more support jobs) in the wake of the decision not to award the...
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Slogans?
Hello everyone. I'll helping to make placards for Saturday's demo to save Bombardier.Any suggestions for slogans?So far I'm a bit stuck. Best I've got so far is'ConDems - off the rails'and the rather...
View ArticleJust so we're clear...
This is a BAD idea:Ministers are scrapping a requirement for teachers to record instances when they use physical force, as part of a wider move to "restore adult authority" in the wake of the riots in...
View ArticleThe Louise Mensch Beverage Scale of Permitted Capitalist Criticism
Following Louise Mensch's remarkable revelation of a new form of critique of political economy on FridayI have reflected on this remarkable insight. If she's right, then whilst the liberal left are...
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The Post of Surreal Frivolity, or, Why Kevin Ovenden Has the Head of a Giant Fly
This has nothing to do with anything really, but it's been hanging around the periphery of my mind's eye (not sure where that would be - in the corner next to the Locked Trunk of Teenage...
View ArticleThe inevitable pre-strike post.
(h/t)Phew, we're nearly there. The Tories have obligingly refused to 'negotiate' any further so not even Barber has an excuse to cave in now. We're nearly there.*A scuffling is heard from the back of...
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Oh, for Gods' Sake
There are many reasons not to like Michael Gove. But aside from his elitism, parochialism, incompetence, viciousness, fundamental opposition to the concept of public service, his general meanness of...
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All in all, pretty good
Right then. First things first. The government's lines on this have simply got to look ridiculous to most people by now. If it doesn't, I may have to despair of my sunny, optimistic view of human...
View ArticleSoundtrack to a Strike
Very much a work in progress this. I was trying to think of stuff that should be on an OST for the day. This is what I ended up with:The Workers - Let's Work TogetherThe Specials - Ghost Town (h/t...
View ArticleLast post on Gove's Bible nonsense (probably)
Education has continued to become a more horrible place to work since I last blogged. The proposed changes to Ofsted mean that everyone has to desperately revise the way lessons work in order that we...
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Another Bloody War
Our rulers last night voted to kill more innocent people in the name of fighting 'terrorists'. Corbyn's interventions were reasoned and correct, but the vote was never about what is right or what is...
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