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But punk was more about getting past R and R; certainly post-punk was (cf Simon's new book). Keith Levene of PiL was quite upfront about wanting to destroy rock and roll. Slits, Banshees, Raincoats, Fall, Magazine, Gang of 4, none of this had anything to do with jingle-jangle maudlin melodic...

Fox hunting banned! Those shots of rural idiots with bleeding heads should warm even the hardest heart... And George Michael giving up pop because he's sick of fame. LOL. From the Standard today: '[George] has spent the best part of 20 years complaining about being misunderstood, without...

Don't people think this has hit a new low though? Indie just seems to be getting worse and worse, you seem to have to do less and less to become a 'major' award-winning artist. I agree that the Libertines aren't the worst - christ, Elbow would have a good shout for that, and, theoretically...

From the Economist today: 'SMILE please. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is in town this week to assess London’s fitness to hold he games in 2012. The proposed budget S £2.4 billion, underwritten by the treasury but paid for chiefly by the poor through a lottery) and the disaffected...

But who is 'highlighting' this - only the people protesting about anti-semitism surely? Maybe Dave is right and Campbell wanted to provoke this response as a means of foregrounding the Jewish background of Letwin and Howard. I certainly wasn't aware of Letwin being Jewish before this, had...

Thing is though, if disovering a mathematical proof is a 'revelation', and seeing an angel is transmissible, then I have no possible concept of what you mean by a 'revelation'. The point is that revelation CANNOT and HAS NOT been the basis of anything except pagan mystery cults like...

I see no grounds for such optimism. Well, I think there are strong parallels between Statford and the Zone. ..sounds good to me. Regenaration is the LAST thing Stratford needs....

Yes, Howard looked at his most slimily unconvincing when he was trying to sell this crock of shit on TV the other night. 'It's just practical, it's just about protecting our public health and seeing that our health service is not put under any more pressure.' So why are people not coming to...

All of this is right except for the emphasis on Revelation. The Event is precisely NOT an Experience. It is not something private, but is defined by its TRANSMISSIBILITY. The Event belongs to reason, and not at all to Revelation. The model is the demonstration of a new mathematical proof, not...

I must admit, I hate the Olympics and I hate athletics so that is colouring my judgement. Can you imagine how monstrously Progtrocious the opening ceremony alone would be in post-Blairite Britain? Hmmm, Stratford gruesome? What is your idea of attractive, then, HMG? I think anyone who thinks...

Must confess that the Libertines have passed me by. Only really heard them tonight when Kirsty Wark's interview with Doherty was repeated on BBC4, curiosity piqued by the blanket tabloid coverage. Absolutely stunned by the vacuity of Doherty and by the sheer cheap crapness of the Libertines...

yeh, sorry, fixed em now... It's anti-modernizing, but that's not the same as reactionary. Derelict, overgrown urban spaces are to be held onto and cherished. for any number of reasons, not least the wildlife. Besides, Toneee's govt has not exactly covered itself in glory with its...

http://www.nolondon2012.org/articles.html I'm hoping that most Dissensus folk will join me in total opposition to the London 2012 Olympic bid. This article is well worth a look. It's clear that in addition to bulldozing Stratford's heronbonescapes and turning them into business park...

Infinite Thought is right. It is totally misleading to construe Badiou as a religious thinker. Attempts to dragoon Badiou into being a crypto-Catholic theologian will inevitably produce only distortion. The whole point of Badiou's book on St Paul is that is not a religious text. What Badiou...

The pilgrim gets one hacked daughter and all we get are forty hack reporters Don't ask us say the critics and the hacks, the pen-pushers and the quacks, we jus' come to get the facts... Henrymiller: is discussion of Evil not a suitable topic for rationalists? Of course not . On the contrary...

You're missing the point, perhaps deliberately. The sense in which writing for a newspaper (i.e. shoring up the existing order; abusing and harassing people as 'part of your job'; spreading scare stories etc) is like being a concentration camp guard is precisely that BOTH INVOLVE BEING IN BAD...

Dave, it's exaggerated, it's not stupid. Let's not forget: that type of journalist IS evil, contributing to cultural stupidity and all manner of reactionary nonsense. It's time people stood up to them and - more importantly - to the idiot PR culture (the big Other in person) that they represent.

No. You've missed the point. The link between Finegold and Nazi camp guards Livingstone was trying to establish concerned both disclaiming responsibility for their actions by blaming them on objective necessity. 'I'm just following orders.' 'I'm just doing my job.' Classic bad faith, in the...

A caller on Radio London this morning.: "Claiming what Ken said was a racist is the same as me treating my workers really badly until someone says to me 'You're behaving like a slavemaster' and me protesting, 'That's racist, because I'm black.' That's ridiculous." Quite.

Did people watch that profile of Howard on the BBC on Sat night? Incredible how the ground has shifted: all those images of him as a vampire (in the wake of Ann Widdecombe's 'something of the night' remark) were perfectly acceptable, it seemed, despite the fact that one of the most persistent...