apologies to commenters

I am so one of the techno-illiterati that I didn’t realise comments were being saved for me a moderate box – what an idea! I thought nobody was looking at my blog at all and therefore was going to take my sorry arse off and start yet another blog. So now I know where you are hiding [...]

Sectarianism: we do it because we love it

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 [...]

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.