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I wonder if everyone who finds the Pope's comments 'offensive' still objects to my supposedly 'over the top' attacks on Catholicism? Because all the Pope is doing is following through the logic of the RCC's long-stated Pro-Creationist, Pro-Life philosophy. That such a logic has and must...

You're right Luke, this is hilarious... total nonsense, but fascinating as an insight into the delusional smugness of the dying superpower for whom failure is indeed not an option i.e. for them it is literally unthinkable... which is precisely why they HAVE failed, they just haven't and indeed...

Of course... there really is absolutely no point surrendering Badiou's take-up of terms to their commonsense rendering ---- especially since, as Bat's very lucid exposition makes clear, the void is precisely THAT WHICH CANNOT BE EXPERIENCED. Look, experience and revelation are paradigmatically...

The media situation has reached a new low, though, surely. It IS actually surprising to me (1) how shit the Libertines and the like are and (2) how easy it is for them to gain acclaim. The situation is getting worse, not better. I take the point about indie, but I guess the label...

Ness has said it all --- great post. Nothing could be clearer now than that PC, the 'politics of difference', respect for the Other etc. are the values the master class uses to maintain its dominance. I'm also with everything the Rambler says --- there's a contemporary pathology of pious...

Any argument that starts 'Some people....' is always depressingly relativistic... Some people like pop to be background muzak. Some people cry and get hysterical over mediocre indie windies. Some people supported Nazism in the Thirties. So? There are number of issues here: 1. The claims...

Right, well, if you write in smug one-liners, you can hardly complain if people are confused about what are you saying. Perhaps now you could offer a reason for your claim, fascinating though it is to hear about your interior states. In any case, what I was saying about the Daily Mail...

Keep on reading the Daily Mail and having your views programmed by their witch-hunting stupidity, Kooky. As for anyone with intelligence, I'm sure you'll all join in me in applauding the stance Ken took against journalistic hyenadom today.

Well they must be utterly sublime, then, if people want to 'have a beer with them'. As for Franz Ferdinand trying to be clever - sorry, what is clever about producing thin photocopies of Postcard bands from 25 years ago? They aren't clever at all, they are 'clever' - canny enough to sell...

Girls Aloud versus guitar pop? Do me a favour, no contest. Surely it's obvious to anyone that while Trad Jazz like Franz Ferdinand and the Libertines will be so forgotten that they won't even be an embarrassment, the few sparks of real - that is to say, thoroughly artificialized - pop are to be...

Well, seems like Ken is to be investigated by some ombudsman. Let's hope they shop at the same whitewash store as Lord Hutton. Not that there is anything to cover up in Ken's case. Unlike in Toneeeeeee's....

Not for me it isn't. :-) Believe me, I don't find it difficult to recoil in depressed horror from that dry as brickdust, stiff as arthritic joints guitar sound. Because for me THERE IS NO GOOD INDIE. Indie, guitar rock, whatever you want to call it, is a priori bad: it was defined reactively...

Any way, it'd probably be the Libertines... ;)

I'm still recoiling from horrible thought of a Bjork gig. Wouldn't want Dido tainted by association with the Prog Folly of the Olympics...

Which bit of that couldn't have been produced in 1964? Or, to put it another way: what is there in it that COULD ONLY have been produced in 2004?

It's not only class war... it's about the 'way of life'... what is this way of life? Here's a clue: how many black people do you see in those yokel villages?

Indie Modernity is effectively still Postmodernity.... I wrote this TEN YEARS ago, but it still seems truer than ever of indie shillyshambling .... 'Generation X was always out of time: arriving after the orgy, it found itself exiled from the progressivist aspirations of the sixties...

Modesty ought to forbid this... but modesty's overrated: http://www.ccru.net/swarm1/1_pomo.htm

Quite. That's obvious. So given that he wasn't offended what is all this about then? Aahh, the big Other might not like it... I see... (Notice btw that the ES now talks about 'perceived anti-semitism' - perceived by whom? well, the big O of course...

Some great stuff on Radio London today. One caller ludidly dismantling the logic of the witch-hunters.... saying Ken was only pointing to the dangers of disclaiming responsibility for yr actions... and that she, as a daughter of a Holocaust survivor, had been told by her mother about how...