Heroes

Well, some of them.


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Can't help wondering...

... what the bloke on the right is thinking...

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Tough call for the Daily Smug: stay pure or take the money?

Seems the Guardian's ad department will run any ad if the price is right. 

I look forward to reading Potty Polly's column condemning the filthy capitalist system that forces her to prostitute herself  to This Sort of Thing.     

via @FraserNels

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Let's get some rules straight around here

First Rule of Left Club: Acquire total control of language.

Second Rule of Left Club: Assert that there are no rules of language. Note: Promulgate this Rule using Approved (preferably amusing) Persons (example) who, overtly or covertly, support the objectives of Left Club.

Third Rule of Left Club: Anathematize all who deny the legitimate authority of Left Club and/or its agents to control language.

Fourth Rule of Left Club: Restrict the teaching of the young and control of public information to Approved Persons (see above).

Fifth Rule of Left Club: Deny the existence of Left Club by any necessary means, from ridicule to violence.

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Plus ça change...

In 1927-8, George Orwell lodged at No 10 Portobello Road with a Mrs Craig, formerly a lady's maid, who, when she, her husband and Orwell were locked out of the house, declined to borrow a ladder from her neighbours to climb through an upstairs window. In the 14 years she had lived there she had never spoken to them; she did not wish to now in case they became familiar - one could not be too careful in Notting Hill. They walked a mile to fetch a ladder from a relative.

From the London Encyclopaedia, prompted by reading this:

Diary date: Sock-Drawer Clean-Out Festival 2011

Noam Chomsky will be the star speaker at the two-day Rebellious Media Conference in London in October. Also in the line-up will be John Pilger, Johann Hari, Dan Hind, Robert McChesney, Jessica Azulay and Michael Albert (of ZNet).

Thank God for the Guardian. I almost forgot.

Hat tip @HolySmoke