Urban v's the Commentariat

[butchersapron]

I hope that drawing is after something - because if it's not it displays a serious misreading of the book. Also, since when did Crapabble join the banderovici?

 

[rekil]

Also, since when did Crapabble join the banderovici?

As far as I'm aware, she's been treading a solidly liberal line and her sole (twitter machine) comment on events in Ukraine consists of greeting Tymoshenko's release with a "fuck yeah" of approval. One can extrapolate all sorts of potentially unsound positions from that.

 

[butchersapron]

As far as I'm aware, she's been treading a solidly liberal line and her sole (twitter machine) comment on events in Ukraine consists of greeting Tymoshenko's release with a "fuck yeah" of approval. One can extrapolate all sorts of potentially unsound positions from that.

That book she's illustrating is about anti-Communist ukranian exiles. Perfect timing.

 

[rekil]

That book she's illustrating is about anti-Communist ukranian exiles. Perfect timing.

I think it's from 2012. I came across it while looking for something else.

(I got a gag about her being the next Banksy retweeted by her publisher a while ago. #victory #activism)

 

[butchersapron]

I think it's from 2012. I came across it while looking for something else.

Ah, so she was in on it from the start!

 

[JimW]

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Meanwhile, some mug paid Crabapple for this awfulness.
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Is he attacking his famous "fascist octopus singing its swansong"?

 

[butchersapron]

Is he attacking his famous "fascist octopus singing its swansong"?

A sly dig at her comrades writing you think?

 

[Greebo]

That doesn't even look like George.

He looks more like one of my former chemistry teachers - tweed suit and all

 

[JimW]

A sly dig at her comrades writing you think?

That would imply she's read and understood Orwell properly, so we can guess not I reckon.

 

[rekil]

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Is he attacking his famous "fascist octopus singing its swansong"?

St.George slaying the soviet dragon or octodragon or something. Geddit?

 

[Idris2002]

Is he attacking his famous "fascist octopus singing its swansong"?

Non, je ne regrette rien. . .

 

[rekil]

LP gets an article published by Al Jazeera America about rudeness on twitter. Top quote.

Freedom of speech does not include the right to have everybody pay attention when you’re being a prize prick.

Meanwhile AJ journos are banged up in Egypt. The PD twitter machine feed is full of journos from all over protesting with taped mouths etc. But no #solidarity from Laurie funny enough.

 

[frogwoman]

LP gets an article published by Al Jazeera America about rudeness on twitter. Top quote.

Meanwhile AJ journos are banged up in Egypt. The PD twitter machine feed is full of journos from all over protesting with taped mouths etc. But no #solidarity from Laurie funny enough.

Maybe she's going to go and work in Doha with Flavia

 

[rekil]

Maybe she's going to go and work in Doha with Flavia

I'm wary of AJ, but they do some really good stuff.

 

[belboid]

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St.George slaying the soviet dragon or octodragon or something. Geddit?

Russia was quite often portrayed as an Octopus spreading its tentacles across neighbouring lands, in the late 19th century

 

[rekil]

The point is that Orwell was correct when he said that the octopus metaphor is a cliche that needs to be consigned to where else but the dustbin of history.

 

[frogwoman]

the octopus metaphor is often well dodgy. sorry.

 

[rekil]

the octopus metaphor is often well dodgy. sorry.

None more dodgy than the mimic octopus.

Spoiler

 

[ViolentPanda]

That doesn't even look like George.

Looks like Stanley Baxter!

 

[DotCommunist]

That doesn't even look like George.

he's not even got a shitty roll-up

 

[Theisticle]

Good lord. Make it stop.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

she needs to check her monetizing the corpses of women of color priv.

 

[rekil]

Dead hotties only. NO MINGERS.

 

[Bun]

she needs to check her monetizing the corpses of women of color priv.

That house in the Hamptons won't buy itself.

 

[SpineyNorman]

Dead hotties only. NO MINGERS.

What about those whose looks, as judged by Molly, fall somewhere in between HOT! and MINGER? Would this include or exclude Rosa for example?

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Rosa has certainly got summat about her in that pic, I reckon she would be quite dirty

 

[equationgirl]

What next, the beauty regime of a revolutionary? Hairstyles for a revolutionary?

 

[J Ed]

Next week in the New Statesman - how to do your nails like a glamorous Ukrainian right-wing paramilitary!

 

[SpineyNorman]

No place for louise michel in Molly's book

(yeah yeah she didn't actually die in the commune but she's definitely dead now so it counts)

 

[frogwoman]

Good lord. Make it stop.

What would Jimmy Savile have said?