Someone from last night’s night shift left me a copy of his local paper to look at today. His local paper is the Newham Recorder, and it has 14 pages of news, reports and photos relating to West Ham’s promotion. That is not including the victory parade on Tuesday which happened too late for their […]
Entries from June 2nd, 2005
Someone else’s local paper
June 2nd, 2005 · Comments Off on Someone else’s local paper · Life
Tags: Local Papers·Newspapers·West Ham
Live 8 whitewash?
June 2nd, 2005 · Comments Off on Live 8 whitewash? · Music, Politics
There is an article in today’s Guardian about the forthcoming “Live 8” concerts. Apparently Bob Geldof has been accused of being “deeply patronising” by leaving African musicians out of the shows. It is true that the line-ups of all the shows is predominantly white and almost entirely from G8-type nations. Even the Italian, French and […]
Tags: Live 8·Racism·World music