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Actually, I've thought twice about my last post.  Yes, I think Labour are better.  It's just that "being marginally better than the Tories" wasn't what I was stuffing letterboxes in 97 for.

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good lord man, do you think labour are any better?

No.  But I remember the Tories.  Any suffering's still too good for them.

Iain Darth Sith in meltdown, the candidates to replace him looking totally unappealing, Tories up and down the land arguing with each other - it all feels goooood...

Since there are a load of Scots on the board, please can you tell me: what's it like, getting rid of the Conservative Party altogether?  Is it the land of milk and honey it seems, or do you secretly long for McGruder to be back in charge?

Iain Darth Sith in meltdown, the candidates to replace him looking totally unappealing, Tories up and down the land arguing with each other - it all feels goooood...

Since there are a load of Scots on the board, please can you tell me: what's it like, getting rid of the Conservative Party altogether?  Is it the land of milk and honey it seems, or do you secretly long for McGruder to be back in charge?

I watched Celebrity Big Brother.  Mad as a hatter would be closer to the truth.  Needs to be taken to where they give people pills and agree with their twisted fixations.

Wierdly, I went to university (and even acted with) the brother of the guy who was on Mr Right and went on to marry ulrikakaka

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Artists (or composers, or sculptors, or writers, etc) do not create Art. Art is created by the passage of time, by something continuing to burn its ideas on the minds of successive generations, that "great work which is still, and will always be, contemporary" to paraphrase Stravinsky (he was talking about Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, if you're interested). These precious ideas of "Art" need to be torn down, so we can get on with writing, painting, composing, or whatever it is we do. History will sort it out, that's not our job.

Nothing to add, just thought that was a brilliant bit of writing that deserved to be quoted again.

I'm not knocking her, i'm celebrating her  :)http://www.masdearte.com/imagenes/fotos/Eemin1.jpg">

Best Tracey Emin quote ever:

"I'm incredibly clean. It's just sometimes these things happen. Once I didn't go home all night, I was outside - al fresco - and suddenly I realised I was supposed to be at the dentist. I think I was probably still drunk when I turned up. I walked in and the dentist said, 'Before we do anything, Tracey, I think you should clean your teeth.' And I went and looked in the mirror and I had sperm all round my chin."

Link: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,11913,996776,00.html" target="_blank">Tracey Emin condemned from own mouth

Damien Hirst's "Away from the flock" (aka "sheep in a tank") blew me away when I saw it.  Not being oe of your artistic types, I couldn't really explain why, but it had a very real emotional impact, as did Hymn.  So I find it difficult to go along when people write off all recent conceptual art.

The Chapmans always strike me as a bit too merry pranksterish, but then I haven't seen enough of their art to properly judge.

My alias is "Dudley" and at the ripe old age of 28 I have come out and admitted I'm a fan boy.
It has been 4 and a bit months since my first post on the 2000AD message board, and I have shown no signs of kicking the habit.  Indeed, the board has done strange things to me.  I now have a subscription and even some 2000ad merchandise.  I am saving for DvD.  I call it DvD, rather than Dredd vs Death.

Nothing can help me now.

You mean other people don't?  Sniff

But you have to admit that the lawman back then was a bit less grizzled than now.  Dredd's moved on a bit, and that's distinguishable in the feel of, say, The Pit.  After all, if you acted today in exactly the same way you did in 1981, what would you be like?

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In the latest Dredd story, Dredd reneges on a deal with the fattie & widow in custody, and sentences them to harsh jail terms for crimes that they manifestly didn't commit and had no control over.  This jarred with my perception of Dredd bigstyle, and I was wondering what others here thought of it?

For me, Dredd is harsh, and often his sentences are unfair, but is he really as arbitrary as this?  Doesn't seem to me to chime with a man who has the lawbook shoved up his rectum, who busts judges as willingly as he busts any other perp, etc etc.

Am I just a hopeless believer in the ideal of fascism?

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Yeah it was, but like all BNP "victories" it has a context.  Tower Hamlets was then (and is now) among the poorest boroughs in the whole of the UK.  It has voted Labour so consistently that, like all unaccountable bodies, the council is lazy and rather corrupt.  In the case of the BNP vote, the local council had just voted to give about ?70K to a Pakistani charity, that was coincidentally run by one of the councillors' relatives.  Just a standard piece of local-government corruption, then, but given that the schools were failing and local services were a mess, when this was exposed it was seen as extremely aggravating.  I'm not defending those who voted BNP in any way, but at the same time I can see the temptation to express disgust with a disgusting (re)action.

The BNP polled around 1% in the last set of elections and lost their deposits.