Right, who knows a way of making 鈥淐onservative and Liberal Democrat Coalition, out out out!鈥 scan properly?
Events haven鈥檛 been made easier by the news coverage, which involved reporters telling us: 鈥淥h my God, it鈥檚 historic, and the two of them look so lovely together, and they鈥檙e in the garden, ooohhh, I haven't cried so much since I last saw Breakfast at Tiffany鈥檚."
Britain
For the first time ever, a member of the British Green Party, Caroline Lucas, was elected to parliament in the May 6 general elections. Printed below is a May 7 statement from
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Greens all over Britain were celebrating this morning as the news was announced that party leader Caroline Lucas had won the Brighton Pavilion seat.
As Tiger Woods returns to golf, not all his affairs are salacious headlines.
In Dubai, the Tiger Woods Golf Course is costing $100 million to build. Dubai relies on cheap Third World labour, as do certain consumer brands that have helped make Woods a billionaire.
Nike workers in Thailand wrote to Woods, expressing their 鈥渦tmost respect for your skill and perseverance as an athlete鈥 but pointing out that they would need to work 72,000 years 鈥渢o receive what you will earn from [your Nike] contract鈥.
鈥楶erish the Privileged Orders鈥: A Socialist History of the Chartist Movement
By Mark O鈥橞rien
New Clarion Press Revised Edition 2009, 119 pages
Review by Alex Miller
If you believed the corporate media, you might think that the greatest threats to parliamentary democracy in a country like Britain have come from Kaiser Wilhelm鈥檚 armies in World War I or 鈥 today 鈥 from Al Qaeda and Islamic jihadists. In fact, the greatest enemies of representative democracy in Britain over the centuries have been the British ruling classes themselves.
Everyone Can be a Hero
By J. R. Birch
Inside Outsider Publications, 2010, 293 pages
In The Iron Heel, Jack London used a narrative from the future to present the dystopian and utopian possibilities that existed in his time. Everyone Can be a Hero, a new independently published book for older children and teenagers, uses a similar device.
Staring at the vast military history section in the airport shop, I had a choice: the derring-do of psychopaths or scholarly tomes with their illicit devotion to the cult of organised killing.
There was nothing I recognised from reporting war. Nothing on the spectacle of children鈥檚 limbs hanging in trees and nothing on the burden of shit in your trousers. War is a good read. War is fun. More war please.
Over the last few years it鈥檚 become one of our quaint English traditions that on any day following the announcement of immigration figures, certain newspapers display headlines such as 鈥淭EN MILLION OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT POLES TO SWARM INTO BRITAIN LIKE PLUMBING LOCUSTS!!! And they plan to BUGGER OUR KITTENS!!!鈥
A new left alliance has formed in Britain to stand in the European Union elections set for June 4.
The next move, presumably, will be to nationalise the country鈥檚 gambling debts.
The British Labour Party and beleaguered Prime Minister Gordon Brown were dealt a new, savage blow in the Glasgow East by-election, which Labour lost to the Scottish National Party (SNP), according to a July 25 British Independent article.
Following disastrous performances in the English local council elections and the Crewe and Nantwich by-election in May, the ruling Labour Party suffered more humiliation at the hands of the electorate in the June 26 by-election in Henley-on-Thames.
On June 11, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown聮s proposals to extend the time that police are allowed to detain 聯terrorist suspects聰 without charge narrowly scraped through a vote in the House of Commons. The MP vote was 315 to 306 to back Brown聮s proposal to extend the limit on detention without charge from 28 to 42 days.
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