Nick Griffin’s England

25Apr09

It turns out the BNP has a manual – a book of Hate for Dummies, if you will. And someone leaked it to the BBC.
BNP activists and writers should never refer to ‘black Britons’ or ‘Asian Britons’ etc, for the simple reason that such persons do not exist”.
Now defining British nationality is tricky, but it [...]

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Tags: BNP, Britain, Nick Griffin, Racism, UK Politics

The incredible shrinking tax

23Apr09

The Guardian has put together some word clouds for the Budget speeches for the years 1998-2009 (i.e. the speeches given by Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling as Chancellors). The more frequently a word is used in the speech, the bigger it appears in the cloud.
It makes for interesting glancing for those of us who haven’t [...]

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Tags: Alistair Darling, Budget, Budget 2009, Budget Speech, Darling, Economy, Speeches as Graphics, The Guardian, Word Clouds

“That’s how I was raised”

21Apr09

So apparently there’s a Miss USA beauty pageant. I hadn’t been following it, for any one of a million reasons, but then Renee at Womanist Musings drew my attention to one of the contestants, Miss California, and her views on gay marriage.

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Tags: Anecdotes, Gay Marriage, Gay rights, LBGTQ, Marriage, Miss California, Miss USA

Body hair: untidy, unpleasant and downright dangerous

07Apr09

First, there was this advert from the US for a combination razor/bikini trimmer, the Schick Quattro Trimstyle for Women:

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Tags: Advertising, Beauty, Feminism & Womanism, Grooming, Quattro, Racism, Razors, Sexism, Shaving, Wilkinson Sword, Women