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He did a good hatchet job on Radio 5's Nolan on Saturday night.

Quite rightly stated that Nolan was putting words in the Chief Constable's mouth about throwing petrol bombs at the police. Worth a listen if not to teach the ignorant bastard to stop interrupting people immediately after he's asked a question ffs!

Bone certainly showed that the BBC does have its own agenda which is not demo friendly.

I think the timing was between 10:30 to midnight.
 
I've always loathed Nolan. I heard him really laying into a caller on FiveLive who was clearly quite vulnerable. He's a nasty bully who is also clearly not that bright. On the other hand, Ian Bone verbally laid into me once when he was pissed on a train journey from Wales. It made the journey very irksome. However it's Nolan whom I hold in simmering contempt.
 
http://ianbone.wordpress.com/2011/03/27/black-bloc-with-brains-outwits-cops-and-me/
Bones write up pf the day is astute - well done the black block for effectively doing it and getting away with it, BUT nothing has changed in 15 odd years beyond a bit of smashing of windows, and no wider links are being made. The black block is a ghetto, and a small one at that.

When paths crossed and the black block rejoined the main march at piccadilly there was an air of embarrassment on both sides with lots of TUC looking at the black block in bewilderment. One trade unionist said 'arent they on the wrong march?' There is a gaping divide between the two groups - or at least it feels like it. Maybe it doesnt really matter? Or maybe the difference will be smaller once the trade unions get more militant?

ETA: Uncut do seem to have done a good job of bridging the gap between, in this case, TU supporters and direct action people. When F&M got occupied the TU marchers stopped and cheered - when a steward told the march to 'keep moving if your with the TU march' he was told straight off 'we're with the TU, but we're also with them' - pointing to lady waving out of the F&M offices upstairs.

Also re OP: about 1 hour 47 minutes into Steve Nolan show saturday night
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0070jd4
 
Bone on the Steve Nolan show mentioning the occupation of the Ritz in the 1930's and years later recorded in history as working class heroes was class. The taxi driver brought on who talked about wanting deeper cuts was a first rate plank.
 
Bone is right about them doing the right thing and being far more mobile than the police. We were getting a bit bored of trudging down the embankment at about the time when the black bloc made a run towards Oxford Street from the main march - that looked more interesting so we followed them, at a more leisurely pace mind you. When we got to Oxford Street, it was, well, pretty anarchic, literally, in that there was no one group in control, certainly not the police. There are so many possible targets for protests around there that even though the place was lousy with coppers there were never going to be enough to cover everything.

At the same time, the street was closed for traffic, and there were shoppers and tourists and other people who'd wandered off the march all over, wandering around, taking photos, at the same time as small groups of protestors and black bloc were hurrying around. There were a load of riot plod at Top Shop, but they were way too late to do anything, and every now and then they'd run in another direction, and then run back. When I saw cops outside somewhere it was usually one that had already been covered in paint anyway.

Absolutely no sense of danger, except coming from the police.
 
http://ianbone.wordpress.com/2011/03/27/black-bloc-with-brains-outwits-cops-and-me/
Bones write up pf the day is astute - well done the black block for effectively doing it and getting away with it, BUT nothing has changed in 15 odd years beyond a bit of smashing of windows, and no wider links are being made. The black block is a ghetto, and a small one at that.

When paths crossed and the black block rejoined the main march at piccadilly there was an air of embarrassment on both sides with lots of TUC looking at the black block in bewilderment. One trade unionist said 'arent they on the wrong march?' There is a gaping divide between the two groups - or at least it feels like it. Maybe it doesnt really matter? Or maybe the difference will be smaller once the trade unions get more militant?

ETA: Uncut do seem to have done a good job of bridging the gap between, in this case, TU supporters and direct action people. When F&M got occupied the TU marchers stopped and cheered - when a steward told the march to 'keep moving if your with the TU march' he was told straight off 'we're with the TU, but we're also with them' - pointing to lady waving out of the F&M offices upstairs.

Also re OP: about 1 hour 47 minutes into Steve Nolan show saturday night
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0070jd4

Couldn't agree more , my mates said that they burst out laughing when they saw them and said they reminded them of skateboarders from Bramhall.
 
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