Rye Holiday blog

Well, I've written up our adventures in the South East of England as a Rye Holiday 2010 blog

And I've posted the photos on Flickr

Election announced, a nation yawns

Well,it's official. The General Election will take place on 6th May 2010 (the day after my birthday) and after the "phoney war" of the past few weeks, the main parties start their campaigns by trying to prove who can swing the biggest axe on public services. I'm not inspired by the prospect.

Someone needs to explain to me why I should vote for any party that is in favour of threatening my job. I will vote, after all people fought and died for my right to do so, but I want it to be a positive act rather than as a means of stopping something worse happening.

Let's see how the campaign develops in Nottingham East...

EDIT: I've copied this as the first posting in my Election 2010 blog

Eliza Carthy says bollocks to Nick Griffin

Eliza Carthy had an article in today's Guardian in response to an article listing the musical tastes of "the world's most evil men" that suggested Nick Griffin was a fan of English folk music. You can read her article here. It includes links to the original article. Her final paragraph is a pithy response to the article...

"At the moment I'm touring with the Imagined Village, an English folk band that includes British Asians alongside guests such as Billy Bragg and Benjamin Zephaniah. You mentioned Folk Against Fascism: we support their attempts to distance folk music from the far right. Bollocks to Nick Griffin. And because talk is not cheap when it comes to this, bollocks to Christian Koch. It's just not funny."

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