Posted in November 2008

The Freedom Of The Mail

The threat to our press

“Independence of the judiciary the Daily Mail to pursue matters of public interest hapless sluts who elope with moderately recognisable figures from the world of sport is the vital check keeping this once-great nation from sliding into the morass of fascism. What kind of world will we live in when people are free to privately engage in any kind of unimaginably depraved consensual sex act they like? And how can the British press perform its proper role of scrutinising the nation’s life without the freedom to call anyone a Nazi at any time, without any evidence? Also, I hate the BBC.”

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Woke Up Elated

which is not how I normally feel, and definitely not how I normally feel with regard to politics, and especially not how I feel with regard to US politics. But, having spent most of the last seven years secretly fearing that I’ve delivered my children into the end-times of human history, with fundamentalists invading the heart of the West’s most powerful government and the leading superpower running a war-mongering foreign policy which shamelessly played out the worst of geopolitics – well, this has got to be better. And even if there is an unsustainable degree of romance about at the moment, this is still a pretty huge reason to believe in improvement.

Surprise of this morning: McCain in defeat is charming and respectful, containing his baying followers with substantial dignity. It’s a bit fucking late but it still gave me a choked-up feeling.
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