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The quality of Mercer
I’ve missed the centennial of Johnny Mercer’s birth by a few days (he was born on 18 Nov 1909): sorry! He was one of the Twentieth Century’s great song lyricists, and was also a fine… more →
Shiraz Socialist
The quality of Mercer
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charliethechulo wrote 1 day ago: I’ve missed the centennial of Johnny Mercer’s birth by a few days (he was born on 18 Nov … more →
The Birmingham pub bombings, 35 years on
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charliethechulo wrote 1 day ago: Birmingham UK, November 21 1974: Thirty five years ago tonight, two bombs exploded inside busy pubs … more →
Hirst: "Anyone can be like Rembrandt"
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charliethechulo wrote 1 week ago: Hirst: (in the Graun): “Anyone can be like Rembrandt…I don’t think a painter like … more →
Saxophone Colossus
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charliethechulo wrote 1 week ago: If you’re lucky enough to have a ticket to hear the great Sonny Rollins tonight at the Barbica … more →
Gameboy: you're on!
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charliethechulo wrote 1 week ago: Sometimes, all you can do is make yourself plain: “John, I’m willing to debate you here, anywh … more →
"Wir wollen rüber!"
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charliethechulo wrote 2 weeks ago: East Berlin 09/11/89, 21:30 By now, crowds are building at crossing points. At Bornholmer Strasse ne … more →
"Dear Comrade Harman"
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charliethechulo wrote 2 weeks ago: The sudden passing of Chris Harman (in Cairo – presumably continuing the SWP’s sucking u … more →
The GDR and "good hearty fare"
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charliethechulo wrote 2 weeks ago: As freedom-loving people get ready to celebrate the breaching of the Berlin wall and the overthrow o … more →
Legal protection for irrationality
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charliethechulo wrote 2 weeks ago: This week’s Employment Appeal Tribunal ruling in the case of Grainger Plc & Others v Mr T … more →
Iran protests and the betrayal of (some of) the left
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charliethechulo wrote 2 weeks ago: Today in Tehran, courageous students and other protestors defied a warning by the clerical fascist g … more →
Lysenkoism revisited
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charliethechulo wrote 2 weeks ago: Alan Johnson’s kind of scientist: Lysenko studying wheat Born September 29, 1898 (1898-09-29) … more →
Two poems for Karadzic...
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charliethechulo wrote 3 weeks ago: …or should it be for the Muslims of the UN “safe haven” of Srebrenica? ‘S … more →
Another "leftist who didn't sell out" goes on trial
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charliethechulo wrote 3 weeks ago: Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader responsible for the foulest ethnic pogroms in Europ … more →
Braff and Barnes: busy hating each other
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charliethechulo wrote 4 weeks ago: I’ve just obtained a CD reissue of an LP by one of the finest “mainstream” jazz gr … more →
A Bonnie lass routs Griffin
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charliethechulo wrote 1 month ago: Like many of you, I’m sure, I’ve just been watching tonight’s Question Time aka … more →
Chris Searle: "The Great Includer"
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charliethechulo wrote 1 month ago: The present issue of Race and Class magazine celebrates the sixty fifth birthday of radical anti-rac … more →
My face was cherry red...
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charliethechulo wrote 1 month ago: I was at a union conference yesterday, and spent the evening in the bar. A conference delegate had a … more →
Blut und Boden
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charliethechulo wrote 1 month ago: The Morning Star, “Britian’s only socialist daily paper”, publishes all sorts of a … more →
Kaminski and the Tories: it just gets worse
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charliethechulo wrote 1 month ago: Here’s what happened on 10 July 1941 in Jedwabne, Poland: “ Jews had been ordered by t … more →
