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A full analysis of Richard Madeley on Iraq

On February 3 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Diary

via news.bbc.co.uk

0:00 – 0:06 – Blurred books and piano music. Richard’s new album will not be available in any shops.

0:16 – Richard introduces a new word: “fishysmell”.

0:40 – What is behind Richard? Is it chipboard or MDF?

1:03 – Richard Madeley still uses a fax machine. This is 2010, [...]

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Anxiety Peace We – a weird way to commemorate the Iraq invasion

On February 3 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Diary

Saddam lighter

I bought this lighter from a street hawker outside Marble Mountain, north of Hoi An in Vietnam in 2005. I bought it because it was just plain odd, and cost next to nothing. The inscription at the bottom says ‘Anxiety Peace We’.

I came across it the other day at the [...]

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Shoe vs Bush

Shoe protest

On December 14 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Diary

So Dubya waves goodbye to Iraq at a press conference, and a journalist chucks a shoe at his head after shouting ‘dog’. Quality. The sole of the foot, and the use of the word ‘dog’, this is a pretty serious insult in the Islamic world. Worse than war-mongering-planet-wrecking-corporate-whore-sellout-monkey-brained-piggy-eyed-fuckwit.

Cue many jokes about [...]

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