Never Trust a Hippy
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| Blog Name: | Never Trust a Hippy |
| Url: | http://nevertrustahippy.blogspot.com/ |
| Language: | English |
| Topics: | politics, football, music |
| Description: | A blog about music, football, books, life, clarification and the demagogic simplification of everything. |
| Popularity: | 33 Followers |
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Transparency now!
| Yes!"Extend the Freedom of Information Act to all bodies undertaking public services, including private contractors and Private Finance Initiative providers. Private companies that provide public services receive taxpayers' money and so should be subject to the same scrutiny as public sector bodies. In particular, private contractors should not be able to hide their operations behind 'corporate confidentiality' clauses."Read the whole thing over at the Other TPA. |
Hello! Hello! Good to be back! Good to be back!
| Forest started the worst nosedive in their history in late 2004 (though it had been in the post for over a year before that) and I started blogging in earnest shortly after (I'd experimented with the idea a few times but never with any conviction).It was a time when the only thing Forest knew how to do was to make pretty girls cry.It would be fair to say that a lot of posts here were at least spiced a bit by the fact that I've had a mardy on about football during all of that time.Blogging has been light here for the last few months though and it gives me great pleasure to show yo |
Quid pro quo: Time to remove restrictions on industrial action.
| A few weeks ago, I wrote a post elsewhere on, among other things, the social contract and the question of the state of nature. A few of the arguments that came out in the threads were that the notion that an action of a state is 'not in my name' is not a sustainable one.This is the reason why we are right to take an instinctive liberal suspicion with us whenever we encounter the state.This stood out from yesterday's letters page in The Guardian:"It is now impossible to live without a bank account, so we have no choice but |
Watch and learn
| Pretty impressive, eh?I'm not really sure of the provenance of this music - I heard an Oud player in Tunisia once using a few similar moves and techniques, and of course, there's the fabulous Anouar Brahem with a less flamboyant percussive technique, but I don't know as much about arabic music as I'd like and I'm not sure if this even draws anything directly from it. Here's Anouar though - for reference.I did have a post up here pointing to another bit of percussive guitar playing a while ago and I've just enjoyed the videos again, so if you have a bit of time to |
Compass Xmas Party
| Time to consider Xmas parties again. Being a freelancer, a lot of the invites I used to get working for a company have dried up, and besides an impromptu drinkup that I'll organise using Facebook, the pick of the crop would appear to be something that combines odd music, poetry and a bit of multimedia.So a German Oompah band explaining the crisis of capitalism, or the words 'Lo-fi ukelele jazz' don't send shivers down your spine, then the Compass Xmas Party on the 18th December could be for you, as it probably will be for me. (You might have seen Tricity Vogue in 'Blow Up - The Credit Cr |
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