Monthly Archives: April 2010

Missing the point

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As anyone who’s foolish enough to get me onto the topic will discover, I’m rather fond of the V/Guy Fawkes imagery . I therefore have been known to be a little fussy about how it’s used. As it is these days a powerful image against the Government and for civil liberties in general I get quite annoyed seeing it used in contexts which reduce it’s potency, of such symbolism. So I wasn’t that impressed when I came across this co-option of the V mask in support of the Lib Dems, I can only conclude that the person who made the … Continue reading →

Beyond the valley of the blogs

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Over at Charlotte Gore’s blog there’s a rather good article on political geekery, which makes two very good points. The first being that if you’re reading this blog (or hers or any of the political blogs) then I hate to say it but you’re probably at the moment either a friend of the blogger or a political geek – or as she more kindly puts it “People Who Are Into Politics.”. The other point picked up more in the comments is one I want to look at a bit closer is that blogging isn’t enough, talking amongst ourselves on blogs … Continue reading →

DK on TV as told by B&D

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Apparently Devils Kitchen has been on telly, I missed it and I still don’t trust iPlayer so I’m probably going to continue to have missed it. However there have been some excellent write ups of it. Including especially the one by Boatang & Demetriou , it’s well worth the read both for it’s take on the TV appearance but also for it’s wider discussion of Libertarianism and where we’re going to end up unless we somehow get the state to back off, before all liberty is lost for the sake of the Children and to protect us from minute unavoidable … Continue reading →