For A’ That 16 – Putting Rights To Right

For this unusually wednesdayed episode of For A’ That, Andrew and I were joined by writer Pat Kane of Thoughtland. I believe he once had a band too (here he is doing something with white paint, or rather having something done to him with white paint).

Up for discussion this week were the Luxembourg Foreign Minister’s little intervention (or not), how offensive is the offensive behaviour bill, wee Dougie’s speech this week and a more general look at the the media and how strange it seems that none of them seem willing to take the plunge and go Indy, even though this may reap some financial rewards.

In the middle of all that, Andrew changes the normal question around at one point  by asking what exactly Theresa May finds intolerable, instead of asking the normal question, which is “Exactly how intolerable is Theresa May?”

Finally, at one point Andrew conjures up a hideous image but he shouldn’t be so offended – a list of 100 best green bloggers once had me put directly beneath Peter Tatchell…which is not a place I’d ever imagined I’d find myself.

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Michael Greenwell

A Lot Of Rubbish Will Be Televised

With the death of Hugo Chavez the bullsh*t-spinning is likely to be so fast that it will create some strange gravitational interactions. Pundits will be mysteriously pulled towards TV and radio stations to talk about this man who was supposedly a menace to “our” way of life, whoever “we” is supposed to be.

If I were you, if you want a better idea of some of the things that went on in Venezuela, I would watch either or both of these two documentaries.

The first is Chavez: Inside The Coup otherwise titled The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. This is a documentary from Irish station RTE which documents the goings on around the attempt in a right-wing coup to topple Chavez. The second one (they are both below) is John Pilger’s wonderful documentary The War On Democracy, which still brings a lump to the throat every time you see it…