“A few miles from the bridge to the south lie the ruins of the ancient city of Ur, founded 8,000 years ago, the birth place of Abraham and a flourishing metropolis at a time when the inhabitants of north-west Europe were still walking round in animal skins. Sgt Sprague, from White Sulphur Springs in West …
I’m having a difficult time keeping up with the war. It’s difficult to focus on – there is SO much news coverage, but very little news. And you know you’re not really getting the full story either, of course. Some lists I’m on have cut and pastes from al-jazeera and russian sources (as well as …
A handy and humorous guide from the “No War But the Class War” site: Reduction of Fire Hazard In the event of Firefighter Strike or War Against Iraq “Most people who work in an office will already have a stock of Post-it Notes, envelopes, notepads and Jiffy Bags at home, provided for free and unwittingly …
So Blair doesn’t give a stuff what we think about the war: “history will be my judge”, he bleats. Well that’s just great, cheers. Whilst scrabbling around for a positive side to this pretty terrifying turn of events, I came up with: a) Clearly Tony is feeling the push – and this just makes him …
On Waterloo bridge the other night. Another guy walking along, ranting to himself: “Well, if you’re gonna attack a country…”. Things revving up at work – unexpected people coming in with “Stop The War Badges”, other people who are in the territorial army getting called up to go to the gulf. Somebody stuck a poster …
And so to the Stop The War march. We’d managed to assemble a handy crew of mates with kids this time – I think a few of us felt that this was better than us all marching separately because people without kids generally want to do different stuff on marches (like nip off to pubs!) …
Walking beside the thames on the way to work, there is a lull in the CD I am listening to. An old geezer is walking in front of me, ranting away to himself “the yanks got a thrashing then, and they’re going to get one now… They’re gonna start a nuclear war”. The bass from …