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Category Archives: The British Left
Dinosaur watch
That wacky bunch of no-hoper Stalinists, conspiracy nuts and embittered ex-Northcliffe hacks who make up the membership of the local branch of the NUJ (National Union of Journalists) have come up with a recruitment plan. “BRISTOL NUJ can be at … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Bristol, Journalism, Media, The British Left, Trade Unionism
Tagged NUJ
There are 34 comments
Wobblies news
Some heavyweight anti-authoritarian politics comes to Bristol and the south west as a trade union dedicated to the overthrow and destruction of the boss class opens up shop. The Bristol and South west branch of the Wobblies – or the … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Bristol, Politics, The British Left, Trade Unionism
Tagged IWW, Wobblies
There is 1 comment
Resurrected Red Dawn rises?
Actually I very much doubt it … But I was re-reading one of Dawn’s HearFromYourMP alerts – the sterile monthly dirge the Dim Prawn delivers direct to my mailbox – from July, which had this to say about the Tesco … Continue reading
Entertainment news
Three weeks now and our old friend, Farooq Siddique, the Evening Cancer’s outspoken ‘A Muslim in Bristol‘ columnist is still keeping his counsel on what is surely the big Islamic issue of the day. Namely what’s going on Iran? Instead, … Continue reading
Posted in Bristol, Bristol Evening Post, Culture, Equalities, Journalism, Media, Middle East, Politics, The British Left
Tagged Farooq Siddique, Iran, Michael Jackson, Palestine
There are 2 comments
BANKSY BALLS: Banksy vs SWP
Photo from www.bristol-street-art.co.uk Popped into the Banksy exhibition in the lunch hour. Not time to see much. There was a huge queue to get in to see the paintings so just saw the animatronics and the ice cream van and … Continue reading
Posted in Banksy, Bristol, Culture, Politics, The British Left, The Trots
Tagged Banksy vs Bristol Museum, Socialist Workers Party
There are 5 comments
Dim Prawn seals Gordon's fate
“Gordon Brown will be Prime Minister next week,” the monotoned moron MP for Bristol South intoned today on The Politics Show West. That’s game over for Gordon then. He’ll be gone by Wednesday. And for old time’s sake, let’s just … Continue reading
Posted in Bristol, Bristol South, Labour Party, Media, Politics, The British Left
Tagged Dawn Primarolo, Kerry McCarthy, Politics Show, Trident
There are 13 comments
Achtung Palestina!
I see Bristol’s contribution to George Galloway’s glorious Viva Palestina! convoy has set forth on their mercy mission to the holy land. And is it really a surprise that indefatigable George is bravely leading from the front in a brand … Continue reading
Posted in Bristol, Middle East, MPs, Politics, Respect Party, The British Left, The Trots
Tagged George Galloway, Viva Palestina
There are 8 comments
Partnership news
We know only too well that Bristol City Council’s pair of jargon obsessed New Labour leadership dronebots, Bum Disease Ormondroyd and Helen Holland, are very keen on this whole ‘partnership working’ malarkey. Martin Whitelock even reports on this blog that … Continue reading
Posted in Bristol, Conspiracy theories, Local government, Middle East, Politics, Race, The British Left, The Trots
Tagged All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry into Antisemitism, Asghar Bukhari, BMCS, Bristol Muslim Cultural Society, Community Development, Farooq Siddique, IHRC, Islamic Human Rights Commission, MPACUK, Muslim Public Affairs Committee, Preventing Violent Extremism, Voluntary and Community Sector Investment Budget
There are 39 comments
What rough beast?
Our dear old friend, Bristol’s high-profile Muslim spokesman and ‘community leader’ Farooq Siddique, has popped up in the comments to explain why the victims of the Warsaw Ghetto have nothing to do with The Holocaust. It’s semantics: The term holocaust … Continue reading
Extremely moderate or moderately extreme?
A few people have commented on this blog have that I’m obsessed with – and grant far too much significance to – “irrelevant far left groupuscules” with no wider influence during my ruminations on the Israel/Palestine conflict. I may well … Continue reading