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posted 02-09-2010 21:53
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That Lenin quote is a classic of far left, "they all look the same to me" stuff. Further to the right than whom, in what respects?
Lenin's a very good explainer of his own ideas. But with little interest in mainstream politics. He ought not to bother commenting on it.
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posted 02-09-2010 22:53
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Ummm - he says than whom, and in what respects. In the article.
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posted 03-09-2010 04:32
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Fucking hell:
"On that night I needed that love Cherie gave me, selfishly. I devoured it to give me strength. I was an animal following my instinct."
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posted 03-09-2010 05:42
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Toto Gramsciddu wrote:
Fucking hell:
"On that night I needed that love Cherie gave me, selfishly. I devoured it to give me strength. I was an animal following my instinct."
That image is going to haunt me for a very long time, I may have to blot it out by imagining my parents at it.
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posted 03-09-2010 05:47
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Blair, Brown and Iraq.
How about The Liar, The Switch And The War Probe
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posted 03-09-2010 16:46
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TonTon wrote:
Ummm - he says than whom, and in what respects. In the article.
Banged to rights. Sorry.
Blair, in the excellent Geoffrey Wheatcroft polemic, is quoted saying he's a "four times a night man" to some tabloid. He's also quoted talking about the need for privacy.
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posted 03-09-2010 19:36
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Which is why he's on Irish television's highest-rated programme tonight to do some more plugging. Strangely, George Galloway's also in the country, talking up planning a stunt, but you don't need me to tell you how likely that is.
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posted 06-09-2010 09:37
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He's just gone completely mental now hasn't he?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11195524
The former prime minister said "dysfunctional families who produce 14-year-old kids stabbing one another to death" are "making people's lives hell" and suggested Britain could learn from developing countries which "just don't accept" criminality.
Which developing countries does he have in mind there? Iran maybe? Or the Sudan?
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posted 06-09-2010 09:47
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I can't think of anything more dysfunctional than buying your children £500,000 penthouse flats to live in while they're students.
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posted 06-09-2010 13:50
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After Dublin, he's neshing out of London...
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posted 06-09-2010 14:00
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That dysfunctional quote seems to suggest he's regretting Sure Start.
He presumably means Singapore, which isn't a developing country, but used to be.
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posted 06-09-2010 14:33
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Tubby Isaacs wrote:
That dysfunctional quote seems to suggest he's regretting Sure Start.
He presumably means Singapore, which isn't a developing country, but used to be.
I bet he wished the UK was more like Singapore for a whole host of reasons. I'm sure he'd think we could learn a lot from their political system.
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posted 06-09-2010 16:27
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It is good that he has been frightened off from London.
Of course he is still having his "secret" book launch:
Wednesday 8 September 5.30pm
Tate Modern Gallery, Park Street, Bankside, London SE1 9TG
Tube: Mansion House
Just in case anyone was interested, like.
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posted 06-09-2010 18:25
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Natal Hreyten Hreytenbach wrote:
Great piece by Will Davies on this. Blair's pathology is that he's simply unembarassable.
There's a comment in that post linking to this blog post, the author of whom tweeted extracts from Blair's book as he read it in its entirety. I've been reading it, and have just reached one quote that stopped me in my tracks. It's a lot worse, and a lot more disgusting than any weird sex-talk...
Tony Blair wrote, on the subject of the Iraq war:
[I] can only hope to redeem something from the tragedy of death, in the actions of a life, my life, that continues still.
There are times in life when words simply fail to convey what one wants to say, aren't there?
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posted 06-09-2010 19:52
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I've been reading through that, too. It's pretty much as expected, isn't it?
I must admit, I chuckled at the bit where Martin McGuinness first visits Chequers. Tony shows him Cromwell's death mask and makes possibly the only halfway-amusing crack of his life: "You see, he really is dead!"
Mart, in response, scowls and mutters "I wouldn't bet on it."
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posted 06-09-2010 20:30
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The other big laugh comes from this unintentionally disturbing image:
p.538: Speaking to the European Parliament was like “being in a girls’ school playground after serving a long stretch in a hi-security prison”
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posted 06-09-2010 20:44
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WTF?
I just about follow the image, despite its disturbingness, but why apply it to addressing the European Parliament?
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