As Britain's Streets Flood With 'Nazi Crank"...

The big question is, where can we get some???

Dr Tobias Funke Pays Tribute To The Bank Of America Dude

Thank God for David Cross, still funny without the use of deranged racism

Oh Kramer, What The Hell Have You Done???

From the Sydney Morning Herald

A Very Good Point

From today's Guardian

A Worthy Cause

Spillers Records in Cardiff under threat

That Said...

On "Celebrity..." Dean Gaffney is shaping up pretty brilliantly too...

Apologies to anyone outside the UK, these people really aren't worth yr valuable time.

Honorary Socialist - David Gest (a very short appreciation)

Ok, I know "I'm A Celebrity..." has only been on for three days now, and, in truth I've only glanced it from the corner of my eye whilst either sitting reading Modern Painters (i.e. last week's Heat) or discussing the issues of the day with my good lady (arguing the toss over anything cos I've staggered in pissed, again), but, these things I know - the former Mr Minnelli, David Gest, is rapidly shinning up that greasy pole towards that oh-so-desirable position of 'Socialism's Best-Bloke-Ever'. After initially fearing that ITV were including him to up some kind of freak factor (him and the woman with the enormous breasts might make some crazed gruesome twosome pairing), I have been amazed at how much he represents Every Man, albeit an Every Man on the receiving end of Michael Jackson amounts of surgery and who clearly needs to fire his barber. He snores, he raps like yr grandad, he actually wins stars in the food trials (unlike that lilly livered dancing boy last night), he looks like he doesn't give a toss what you think of him, grateful maybe for the lack of mirrors in the jungle. People wanted to hate him when he went in, but what's to hate? The guy is brilliant. A story in todays' Sun newspaper alleges that Gest previously stayed at the Lansborough in London, he had demanded to be brought fresh zebra milk to his suite. This guy just keeps on giving, as far as I'm concerned.

So yes, we're currently keeping all eyes (well, half an eye whilst pouring another stiff vodka) on Gest with a view to moving the Socialism Christmas Shindig from the end of the bar, upstairs at the Social (the bit by the pot wash section) to Gest's New Year's Extravangaza, where for £99 you get to hear such greats as Russell Thompkins Jr And The New Stylistics, Bonnie Tyler, Martha Reeves And The Vandellas & Candi Staton. Personally I don't give a flying fuck about those dudes, I'm going purely to be a guest of the Gest.

Socialism Magazine supports Nov 21st, No Music Day

"Maybe I want music that is to do with place and time and occasion and I don’t just mean something on your MP3 to dull the reality of your bus ride to work, but music to celebrate the great moments in our lives; music that we can only ever hear if we travel to one specific place at one special time. This does not mean Pink Floyd reforming at Live 8"

Things We Love This Month

"London - City Of Disappearences" - Psychogeographer Iain Sinclair edits a brilliant collection of writings about the bits of London that have faded from view - Socialism 4 contributors Bill Drummond and Stewart Home both contribute;

"Candylion" by Gruff Rhys - Super Furries frontman's second solo album, our favourite record of the year;

"Readymade (Instructions for Everyday Life)" & "World Changing (A Users Guide To The 21st Century)" - helping to ease our terminally blotted consciences;

Peep Show Series 3 - when does Free The Paedos actually open?

"Destroy All Humans 2" - at last! You can blow up Haight Ashbury hippies without the very real fear of death by lethal injection;

early morning Jon Pertwee Dr Who repeats on UKTV Gold - like a camp acid flashback whilst eating your Rice Krispies;

The Young Knives album;

and, finally, Everything Must Go - Socialism magazine backed 2 month only bar in Central London - a blink and you've missed it gig venue/art fair just off Oxford Street, opens end of November over by mid January...

There Is Nothing Normal Or Sane About This News Story

"The singer was filming for Sky One's 'The Race' yesterday (November 13) at Silverstone when AC/DC singer Brian Johnson struck the back of her car"

From Today's Guardian

Just When We Thought We Were All Fucked, "Thank You, America"

Holy Shit - David Brent As I Live & Breathe...

I am lead to believe this is actually serious...

Socialism 4 finally available

Sixty boxes of Socialism issue 4 arrived in the office yesterday. Hopefully they'll be long gone by this time next week. As of later today, they will be available in The Social, 5 Little Portland Street, London, W1. Within the next day or two, they should be in both London Rough Trade shops. I'll update here as soon as we've got stock out to other shops and bars. If you want a copy of it posted, please send tape 2 quid to something and send it to Socialism, c/o Heavenly, 47 Frith Street, London, W1D 4SE. Don't call round as it's not a shop and we can't dosh them out!

The 3 Most Terrifying Words In Rock...

Lily Allen - Live.

Power Down For A Couple Of Hours...

Nov 4th voluntary power cut...

The Unusual Suspect

Genius interview with actor Stephen Baldwin, who has renounced coke and shagging for God though, currently, he remains vague on some stronger points of the Bible, such as the Ten Commandments and the Seven Deadly Sins...

Worth Another Look

After last week's brilliant Time Out issue on Disappeared London, it's worth another look at Derelict London, the site we featured in Socialism Issue 3...

Friends In Weird Places

Today was great. I made so many new friends. Romeo Sims offered me ‘Zero clip’. Gwendoline Boucher informed me of her mood (‘immensely dejectedly’). Adrian Beasley turned me on to ‘Biscuit airwaves’. Freda Hampton let slip about ‘the Noun Dwarves’ (where are they playing?) Moses Morton simply stated: ’Backgammon’? Why not?! All of these new pals appeared, uninvited, in my Yahoo messages this morning. Which begs the question - do they exist? If not, then who is the surrealist spymaster conjuring up this fascinating vortex of possibilities?

A quick straw poll of friends and colleagues revealed that none of them had heard from Gwendoline, Moses or Romeo and never had done. Had I been targeted by an elite band of e-intellectuals, eager and willing to lead me towards enlightenment - a modern day Bloomsbury Set with their eyes on the cyber-prize? Or was I merely an unwitting fool guy in some sick in-box hoax? Are Gwendoline and Freda, as we speak, sewing together home-made t-shirts for The Noun Dwarves first gig, in front of a vast web-crowd including Sebastian Lake, Dirk Silence and Ahmad Rogers? Or are they merely random arrangements of vowels and consonants being churned out by an uber-computer deep in Silicon Valley? I’m serious. Does anyone know who the fuck these people are(n’t)?

'Politician Actually Makes Sense' Shocker...

Ken Livingstone, mayor of London, is these days possessed of one great idea. Climate change, and how to avert it, consumes him

Yesterday's Guardian - Drastic Measures Needed On Climate Change

Climate change is not just a moral question: it is the moral question of the 21st century. There is one position even more morally culpable than denial. That is to accept that it's happening and that its results will be catastrophic, but to fail to take the measures needed to prevent it.