Monthly Archives: December 2008

Re-Wild at Heart

Posted on December 29, 2008 by dwighttowers

Whilst capitalism eats itself, radical re-imaginings are dared.

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Deep Throat, the FT and the Grauniad

Posted on December 29, 2008 by dwighttowers

In his obit of Mark Felt, FT 20th December, Jurek Martin concludes with this: “He escaped implication in Watergate for years but Mr Felt did encounter legal problems of his own. After leaving the agency which he joined in 1942, … Continue reading →

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Democracy in action (again)

Posted on December 28, 2008 by dwighttowers
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Review of Lobster 56

Posted on December 26, 2008 by dwighttowers

Robin Ramsay has been producing the twice-yearly Lobster for a very long time, and he is very very good at it. Lobster has been beavering away at the meeting place of the Secret State, the “Special Relationship” and “para-politics generally … Continue reading →

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Fourth World Review reviewed. (Issue 148)

Posted on December 26, 2008 by dwighttowers

Another Fourth World Review has found its welcome way to my door. It’s another good issue, and before I (critically) review its contents, I want to point out just how much “invisible” work is embedded in these sorts of publications. … Continue reading →

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lipo-Diesel

Posted on December 26, 2008 by dwighttowers

Who needs Jonathan Swift when we have Californian plastic surgeons?I wish I’d thought of that.

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Coitus Interruptus

Posted on December 24, 2008 by dwighttowers

The pope fails the grasp the actual reasons behind the impending ecological debacle – preferring to characterise it as a vast gay conspiracy. The great stain that is Clarkson continues with his “aren’t I controversial” wankery by pretending that only … Continue reading →

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Baubles

Posted on December 20, 2008 by dwighttowers

Christmas brings the fortieth anniversary of the first image of Earth Rising – an image that (should have) transformed the way we, as a species, conceptualise ourselves.Did it? The UK gov’t relinquishes all remaining control of its Atomic Weapons by … Continue reading →

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Jury of One peer

Posted on December 19, 2008 by dwighttowers

The attorney General – the duly appointed, cabinet-ranking, partisan politician Baroness Scotland – is making plans to withdraw the protection of legal precedent from climate protestors who break the law in their stirling efforts to avert catastrophe. Suggestions that this … Continue reading →

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Concerned Businessmen for Growth and Continuity

Posted on December 19, 2008 by dwighttowers

As Woolworths collapses and sheds thousands of jobs; as Chrysler shuts down all operations for a month; as Zimbabwe descends ever further into hell and takes its wildlife with it; as British Airports Authority attempts to sidestep the Heathrow reports … Continue reading →

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