“Britons, never, never, never, shall be slaves.” UK National Anthem (to be replaced with ‘Do the Vernon Coaker’) A few posts back I wondered whether M15 and its master, the CIA, Twittered. Well, not for the time in the world of Thus, fact has rapidly overtaken fiction. The inept and authoritarian UK government is actually [...]
Tag Archives: John J Kelly
The big money is at the end of the rainbow, same as it ever was
March 3, 2009 – 4:58 pm
Writing in Wilmott, Rudi Bogni argues that banker-bashing may be a convenient way to mask the inconvenient truth that the demands on our financial systems are unsustainable. Western productivity was not up to the task of generating sufficient wealth to fuel perpetual growth, nor is it likely to be. It required a collective suspension of [...]
Yes, the middle classes are revolting, but I don't predict a riot
February 25, 2009 – 4:50 pm
Riot shields ready to dodge the flying quiches. Set tasers to stun those unemployed analysts. Truncheon the bourgeois materialists. They no longer matter. We’ve bled them dry. By John J Kelly. Recently, The Guardian reported police warnings of a ‘summer of hate.’ Sources of Intelligence (in short supply in the police) ‘indicate’ that middle class [...]
Israel lobby victorious as BBC refuses to help with humanitarian appeal
January 25, 2009 – 6:21 pm
In a display of lip-curling spinelessness, the BBC has refused to air the non-aligned Disasters Emergency Committee appeal for Humanitarian Aid to the victims of the Gaza conflict. Other UK (commercial) TV channels, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5, have agreed to air the appeal. Sky Television is considering its position. (UPDATE: unsurprisingly, Sky has [...]
Why you should choose your ISP with care – correction to my earlier piece
December 12, 2008 – 12:49 pm
. . . I got it wrong earlier. Subversion of your Internet Service Provider (ISP) is the real threat to data privacy. In response to the excellent comments posted following my piece about browsers and spyware, I need to point out that the problem goes much deeper than browser technology. Internet Service providers (ISPs) have [...]
Throw away your crutches and limp down to the McJobCentre, says PM
December 10, 2008 – 7:55 pm
By John J Kelly In yet another demonstration of the sort of lateral thinking that has made Gordon Brown not only saviour of the banks but saviour of the world, Work and Pensions Minister James Purnell announced a government pledge to force long term sickness benefits claimants and some single mothers back to work. The Welfare Reform White [...]
Not a lot happened in Hay-On-Wye while I was there . . .
December 9, 2008 – 2:14 am
. . . but everyone says the party started after I left. By John J. Kelly Wordsworth famously observed that poetry takes its origin from ‘emotion recollected in tranquility.’ Art is emotion harnessed to artifice. The artist gives the impression of spontaneity. The work aims to evoke powerful emotions, but it is a representation of idealised [...]