Tag Archives: Brexit
Essential Listening: The Best Albums Of 2018
We survived. Well, most of us. As with my best songs of the year list, this list is restricted to ten and is in alphabetical order. However, the title of this post is somewhat disingenuous as I haven’t restricted this … Continue reading
Posted in Essential Listening
Tagged 1/3, 2/3, 2018, Aphex Twin, Autechre, Blood Orange, Boards Of Canada, Bon Dylan, Bootlegs, Brexit, Brian Eno, Compilation, Compro, Dance Hall Style, Deadline Paranoia, Essential Listening, Gabe Gurnsey, Horace Andy, Jeremy Corbyn is a cowardly twat, Kate Bush, Keith Richards, King Of Cowards, Leaving via a Gatwick drone, Machinedrum, Negro Swan, New Year, NTS Sessions 1-4, Oil Of Every Pearl's Un-insides, Oregon, Pet Shop Boys, Physical, Piano & A Microphone, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, Prince, Reeperbahn, Reissue, Scott Walker, Skee Mask, SOPHIE, Soya milk drinking welly wearing yoghurt producing vegan types, Switched on Eugene, The Purple One, Too lazy and tired to do a bigger list, Various, Voices Of Freedom
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Fuck Brexit, play Yakuza 0
For the last two years the hard line Leavers were defiantly ignorant of Britain’s weak hand, the technical complexities of withdrawal agreements and the true logistic and economic costs of importing and exporting with the your largest trading partner after … Continue reading
Posted in Odds & Ends, Politics
Tagged 'Bring back the neo-liberals I'm sorry I didn't mean to pray for anarchy', Brexit, catfights, EU, Eyepatch, Facebook, Fuck that luvvies, GTA V, I'm shite at Mahjong, Instagram, Japanese, Kuryu, Leavers are all Beliebers, Majima, Miracle Johnson, Never mess with a Yakuza sans a pinky, Nightlife, No Deal, Osaka, Out Run, Pokémon Go, SEGA Genesis, She puts the lotion in the basket..., That Tamagotchi bollocks, The DUP hate gay seals, The late 80's, Tokyo, Twitter, Unionism, Yakuza 0
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The Handmaid’s Tale – emotive torture porn
In the epilogue to Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale a group of intellectuals argue whether Offred’s account of Gilead’s brutal theocracy was reliable. There is no ambiguity in the television adaptation – so far. The viewer is given full omniscience, … Continue reading
Posted in TV
Tagged Aunt Lydia, Brexit, Can we be trusted?, Elizabeth Moss is boss, Fascism, Fred and Serena, Gestapo, Gilead, June Osborne, Margaret Atwood, Misogyny, Moderates are negligent, Nazi Germany, North Korea, Offred, Orwellianesque, Putin, Saudi Arabia, Sophie’s Choice, Stalinism, Stasi, Theocracy, Torture porn, Totalitarian, Trumpian alt-right wet dream, Trumpian wet dream, Wall's built, Westboro Baptist Church, What does Vegas look like in Gilead
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Just get on with it
That’s a message from me to the SNP. Between quagmire of Brexit and the inevitable omnishambolic results of the UK government getting involved in Syria, primarily, you suspect, as a distraction from the former, a sense of urgency has developed … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged Brexit, Brexit nonces, EDL, EU, Holyrood, Independence, Indy Ref 2, omnishambolic, Pound Shop Enoch Powell is a great insult, psephology, SNP, SNP and many Yes voters need to grow some cojones, Syria, Terrible banner but I couldn't find anything better, Tories, Tory Bastards, Unionists, urgency, Waiting for Godot, Westminster, Yes
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Brexit – the final solution to my consumerist paralysis.
Gosh, what a pompous title that is. Brian Sewell would’ve been proud. But yeah, I need a new laptop and have done for well over a year. The current one, purchased in 2010, is slower than a granny at … Continue reading
