Memories of an opinion poll
26/03/06 11:53 Filed in: First
Series
A bunch of recent television programmes about
Harold Wilson brings back to mind an experience I
had in 1965, when I had a job between school and
university with National Opinion Polls.
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Not ciivil war?
20/03/06 11:52 Filed in: First
Series
Iraq: maybe it isn't civil war, but then it's
anarchy. Absence of law and order. That's what Bush
and Blair have achieved.
O What a Lovely Democracy
15/03/06 11:51 Filed in: First
Series
If
the treasurer of the Labour Party didn't know about
those loans; and if the people who loaned the money
were then put up for peerages; and if peerages are
given by No.10; then the conclusion is obvious: who
knew was No.10. Adorno used to speak about the
coincidence which is not just a coincidence.
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First Entry
15/03/06 11:49 Filed in: First
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If
I'd started this blog a few weeks earlier, I would
no doubt have used it to report on my recent trip
to Tehran for the Fajr Film Festival, but since
not, my diary of the visit has instead been
published in the first
online edition of Vertigo
Magazine.
I still find it difficult to read magazines
on-line, but this is an unashamed plug for a
publication about independent film and video
throughout the world - the print edition has been
going since the early 90s - which is one of the
happiest projects I've been associated with, and
from which I've learned the most. Vertigo is one
place where I don't kibbitz... Read
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