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Let's hope that they are that sensible - when you have a theocratically based political system, you can expect logical assumptions to be thrown out of the window sometimes. A diplomatic solution to this would be preferable, but I wouldn't be surprised if the sabre-rattling starts soon...

Some other ideas.... Oval - Do While anything by Techno-Animal from Re-Entry I think someone already mentioned the Young Gods - they definitely have to be in there Oh, and Cassetteboy if you want the class to have a laugh!

I would expect that no-one wants children to be exposed to paedophiles, but one thing has concerned me about the media rush to condemn the latest news about a person on the Sex Offenders register being employed as a PE teacher. Now correct me if I am wrong, but is everyone on the register a...

Dumb newbie reply coming up.... Just bought Run The Road Vol 1, which is really good. I have got the two Dizzee albums, which I think are great as well (yes, I know, the standard stuff, but there is so much great music out there and only so much time/money). I don't know about the grime scene...

I used "state capitalism" as a term for what I believe went on in the Eastern Bloc as far as the economics was concerned. The social aspects were simply disgraceful - I wouldn't ever deny what went on there. I've read enough of Solzhenitsyn and "Black Book Of Communism" to be able to state...

IMHO - the best program on TV this year. Funny, dark, and subversive for US/UK TV, especially given the current media attitudes to drugs. Seeing someone on E laughing themselves silly, and then not going on to stick a needle in their arm/mug an old lagy, die of heat exhaustion (as per the...

I think therein lies the point - tracing an origin of capitalism becomes a hunt for where does capital become something intrinsically separate from labour? At the present time, where capital is so slippy to define (where "cash" is a string of digital information) it is difficult to see where...

It's an interesting point, as how can you see out of the system you are in to get the perspective required (unless we are already post-capitalist, as some would posit). The feudal/capitalist switch is very difficult to unpick. If you look at it politically, you could see Magna Carta as a...

Yes - Oryx & Crake is a brilliant book, and a salutory warning of where we are going. I remember an old 2000AD comic strip from years ago with a potato going back in time and executing people for eating chips. The potatoes had evolved after a nuclear war. Point being - can plants feel pain...

What, you get 20?! As a newbie, I thought this would give everyone an idea of where I'm coming from musically. In no particular order... Dangerdoom - The Mouse & The Mask Khanate - Capture & Release SunnO))) - Black One LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour (reissue)...

Anyone remember that single by the Bombfunk MC's a couple of years ago - truly appalling comedy rapping. Apologies if anyone likes it!