I was in an unpaid improv performance group. Before every gig, as a warm up, we’d jump up shouting: We do it because we love it.
I’ve just been knocked back from yet another attempt to get bits of the left to talk to each other. Why, I ask myself and the world at large, why [...]
Sectarianism: we do it because we love it
That page 3 Thing
Since it has been brought into the argument, and as one of the instigators of the original campaign, 25+ years on, I’d like to revisit that Page 3 thing.
The early 80’s Thatcher had just come to power. ‘Ditch the Bitch’ was the kind of popular anti-Thatcher slogan that focussed on her gender rather than her [...]
Girl fight!
I didn’t witness this myself, as I went to a single-sex convent school, but my younger co-ed comrades assure me that a girl fight was a great playgound attraction. And so it is too with our grown-up playgrounds.
I still think fondly of Germaine Greer’s feminist attack on Suzanne Moore’s ‘wobbling cleavage and fuck-me shoes’. And [...]
Georgeous Arse!
The offending quote from the Georgeous One:
“Take Kylie Minogue. For a singer she’s always been not a bad looker.I voted with the majority for a change when her rear was the year’s champion sight. I even bought my woman Kylie’s range of underwear”
It has been defended along the lines of, if not ‘political correctness gone [...]
The Split of Kylie’s Arse
last weekend the left hit bottom. Five separate ‘unity’ initiatives were on show: five separate and competing voices crying ‘I am the one and only’. There is in addition at least one more – the United Socialist Party – meeting this week.On the website of Socialist Unity Network (supporters of Galloway’s Respect Renewal, but the [...]
How to avoid talking out of your arse
The current collective consciousness on the left around oppression is such a miasma of postmodern, subjective, sentimental, victimised, emotive dreck. I feel a certain responsibility for having added my bit to the heap. Here by way of restitution, I offer the following insights painfully gleaned over a lifetime of politcal twaddle.
1. Membership of an oppressed [...]
the crack
Welcome to Kylie’s Arse. The left is fundamentally divided – split. A lot of shit is talked. But it’s neat and affords the opportunity for arse-based humour – or bum cracks.
