Hats off to Luis Aragonés for a public statement of Cantona-esque weirdness. In a new twist on the old “some of my best friends are gay/black/Jewish” line, he said that he had: black, Gypsy and Japanese friends, including one whose job is to determine the sex of poultry in response to the old charge of […]
Entries Tagged as 'Racism'
Some of my best friends are chicken-sexers
June 27th, 2006 · Comments Off on Some of my best friends are chicken-sexers · Life
Tags: Racism·World Cup 2006·WTF
The Ministry of Truth
June 2nd, 2006 · 4 Comments · Politics
We all owe a debt of thanks to The Ministry of Truth for spending so much time investigating the right-wing hate site Stormfront to find out the types of comment one of the newly-elected BNP councillors in Sandwell has been saying for the last 5 years. I hope he had a long bath in Dettol […]
Annual Council
May 25th, 2006 · 3 Comments · Politics
Friday night is Crawley's annual council, which should be interesting. Having taken control, the Tories have, apparently, offered a couple of committee chairs and the deputy mayor post to Labour, although they have, I believe, specified who they want to have those positions. I have mixed feelings about this. For years the Tories have complained […]
Vote blue get red, white & blue?
May 15th, 2006 · 4 Comments · Politics
Fortunately that is not the case everywhere, but there still seems to be a significant number of BNP supporters hiding within the Conservative ranks, as the story of the Rev Robert West shows. In a statement, Mr West said: "I have decided to seek refuge from political correctness by applying for asylum with the British […]
Hate mail
April 26th, 2006 · 9 Comments · Politics
I got my first hate mail today. I feel quite flattered. Here it is, in its entirety, with a few annotations in colour from me. Andrew Skudder You are a failed actor and a failed councillor, you have nothing to offer Broadfield so piss off! Failed actor? I can’t remember failing. I can remember quitting […]
Dirty Tricks – part two
April 25th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Politics
The second dirty trick I heard about is one which will not be in the newspapers and which I should probably not talk about. It makes me angry, and I am always prone to respond a bit, shall we say, robustly when I am angry. Also it concerns a document which I have not actually […]
Tags: Broadfield·Elections·Racism·Scandals·Tories·Travellers
The oxygen of publicity
April 24th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Politics
There is a big debate about how to treat the BNP, running alongside the debate about why they are getting what support they do, and how to tackle that in the longer-term.
Do leopards change their spots?
April 22nd, 2006 · 2 Comments · Politics
No its not a post about Dave the Chameleon, but about Vernon Atkinson, who is standing as a BNP candidate in Furnace Green. I noticed today that a Vernon Atkinson stood in the Wandworth borough elections in 1978 and 1982 as a candidate for the National Front. Either its a common name in far-right circles, […]
Tags: BNP·Furnace Green·Racism
Love Music Hate Racism
April 22nd, 2006 · Comments Off on Love Music Hate Racism · Music, Politics
Most of us will probably be busy with other things less than a week before the local elections, but there is something going on in Trafalgar Square on Saturday, April 29th from 12 noon.
Anti-Nazi League
April 21st, 2006 · Comments Off on Anti-Nazi League · Politics
I had an e-mail today about the launch of a new book called When We Touched the Sky by Dave Renton, a history of the Anti-Nazi League from 1977-1981. I like any books about that time, covering the years between my 15th and 19th birthdays I obviously have lots of fond memories, but especially of […]
