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… and I thought I was applying normal academic disciplines when I wrote military history.
"…Military history really is the armpit of of all historical disciplines. It is popular, and lucrative, which means it attracts the worst of charletans [sic], liars, and plagiarists, and those interested in making the most out of the least work. It can also pander to the most adolescent 'Lord Jim" fantasies of derring-do…a romanticism which by its nature needs to diminish or refute real historical evidence to survive. And it can do this while holding the reader and the public in contempt – regurgitating outright lies, re-assemblling the same fanciful colour pictures in yet another slightly different book cover…"
Frank, of the Knapsack Museum.
Posted on the Facebook page of the 2nd battalion, 95th Rifles
See http://www.knapsackmuseum.co.uk/index.php?p=2 6 for the full article.
Any comments? I'm certainly wondering where I've been going wrong. "Lucrative"? "The least work"? I don't think so. Perhaps I've been working in the wrong period! (Carole Divall)


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UKIP's real policy on the NHS
By Tom Pride
The UKIP is trying desperately to win votes from Labour.
That's probably why they're doing everything they can to pretend they won't sell off the NHS quicker than the present government if they win power.
As part of this cover-up, Deputy UKIP leader Paul Nuttall has sneakily deleted a letter he posted on his own website calling for the wholesale privatisation of the NHS.
Unluckily for him I took a screenshot of it before he tried to get rid of it (click to enlarge):
UKIP are not a maverick, anti-establishment, libertarian party.
They're a bunch of right-wing, authoritarian Thatcherites – led by a public school educated ex-banker – who don't like foreigners or homosexuals much.
And they'd sell-off the NHS quicker than the present government given half a chance.
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Challenging anti-Semitism on Gaza demos
By Daniel Randall (at Workers Liberty):
On the 26 July London demonstration against Israel's assault on Gaza, I confronted a man who was carrying a placard which read "Research: The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion", with an image of a Star of David, dripping blood, with "666" in the centre.
The Protocols are an anti-Semitic forgery dating from Tsarist Russia, which purport to expose a Jewish conspiracy to dominate the world. They were used in their time, and have been used since, to whip up racist hatred, often violent, against Jews.I told the man that racism had no place on the demonstration, that his presence harmed the Palestinian cause, and that the document he was promoting was a racist hoax. In the course of what was probably a not very coherent tirade from me, I mentioned that I was Jewish."Well, you're blinded by your bias because you're a Jew", he said. "Only Jews make the arguments you're making."
Thereafter the "discussion" became more heated, and several onlookers were drawn in. Several people backed me up, but several defended him.
Their defences ranged from, "he's opposing Zionists, not Jews", to "he's not racist, Zionism is racist!", to the perhaps more honest "Jews are the problem. If you're a Jew, you're racist, you're what we're demonstrating against." One man, topless, but wearing a balaclava, said "fuck off, unless you want your fucking head kicked in."
I walked away, angry and upset. I returned a short while later to find the placard-holder embracing two young men, before leaving. When me and some comrades challenged them, they told us he wasn't anti-Semitic, merely anti-Zionist. "Look, it says 'Zion'", not 'Jews'. 'Zion' means Zionists", one helpfully informed us.
Explicit anti-Jewish racism of the kind displayed on the man's placard has been rare on Palestine solidarity demonstrations in Britain. But the fact that it was present at all, and that it could find even a handful of defenders in a crowd of other demonstrators, is deeply worrying. Pointing to its rarity, and dismissing the problem as restricted solely to fringe elements, would be to bury one's head in the sand. As recent events in France and Germany have shown, it is an undeniable fact that there are anti-Semites in the global Palestine solidarity movement, and ones prepared to violently express their anti-Semitism. That must not be allowed to infect the movement in Britain.
I don't know how easy a ride the man and his placard had on the demonstration before myself and others confronted him. Had official stewards of the march seen the placard, and challenged him? Perhaps he'd spent all day under attack from other demonstrators; I hope so. But when I found him, he was perfectly at his ease, and, as it turned out, surrounded by friends. That is a disappointment. If people with such politics want to attend solidarity demonstrations to peddle them, they should find themselves isolated, and face constant harangue. They shouldn't be entitled to a moment's peace.
While outward displays of "classical" anti-Semitism are rare, subtler themes are more common. Placards and banners comparing the Israeli state to Nazism, and its occupation of Palestine to the Holocaust, and images melding or replacing the Star of David with swastikas, are, while far from universal, relatively commonplace. The politics of this imagery, too, has an anti-Semitic logic.
Nazism and the Holocaust – an experience of attempted industrialised genocide, just two generations distant – left deep scars on Jewish identity and collective cultural memory and consciousness, wounds that will take a long time to heal. As others have written recently, no other ethno-cultural group has the most traumatic experience in its history exploited in this way. "Zionism = Nazism", "Star of David = Swastika", and "The Occupation = The Holocaust" all use collective cultural trauma as a weapon to attack Jews. The fact that those who take such placards on demonstrations intend only to target the Israeli government, and not Jews in general, is no defence or excuse. The barbarism of Israeli state policy does not make the Jewishness of its government fair game, any more than Barack Obama's imperialism excuses racist attacks on him.
To describe the Palestinian solidarity movement, as such, as "anti-Semitic" would be a calumny. Cynics and right-wingers have attempted to use incidents of anti-Semitism to extrapolate conclusions about the politics of all marchers, or to imply that any support for the Palestinians at all is somehow anti-Semitic. Such cynical extrapolations are not my intention with this article. Undoubtedly, the vast majority of marchers attended because they want to oppose Israel's current assault on Gaza. The movement includes many Jews (and not just the theocratic reactionaries of Neturei Karta, but secular-progressive Jews too), and many sincere anti-racists. But a situation where anyone thinks it appropriate to carry such a placard, where he can find supporters, and where such people can openly racially abuse Jewish demonstrators who challenge them, is not tolerable and must be addressed.
Right-wingers in the Jewish community will use instances of anti-Semitism to discredit the Palestinian cause, and dissuade Jews from acting to support it. On this, instrumental, level, anti-Semitism harms the Palestinians. But racism should have no place in any solidarity movement, not because it's bad PR, but because the politics of solidarity should be anathema to any form of racism.
It is now common in the left-wing blogosphere for articles which contain potentially traumatic content to carry "trigger warnings", alerting those who have experienced particular traumas that something in the article might trigger painful memories of their experience. To attend a demonstration where Nazism and the Holocaust, the worst and most traumatic of Jewish collective experience, is used as a cheap propaganda tool, and openly anti-Semitic placards are carried and defended, while those challenging them are racially abused, must surely be "triggering" for many Jews. But we can't put trigger warnings on demonstrations, or on life. All we can do is work to win hegemony for a political culture where such things are confronted and stamped out.
Finally, a "historical" note on placards on Palestine solidarity demonstrations. In 2009, during Operation Cast Lead, some Workers' Liberty members in Sheffield (three of us, incidentally, Jewish) took placards on a demonstration against the assault which, amongst other things, said "No to IDF, no to Hamas." As it happens, I now think, for various reasons, that our slogan was misjudged. But no-one attempted to engage us in debate or discussion about it; we were simply screamed at, called (variously) "scabs" and "Zionists", and told we must immediately leave the demo (we didn't). Our placards were ripped out of our hands and torn to pieces.
As I say, I don't know how many people had challenged the racist placard on the 2014 London demonstration before me; several, I hope. But the political atmosphere on the demo was evidently not such that the man carrying it felt unwelcome – and, indeed, when he was challenged, many people leapt to his defence.
I don't make the comparison in order to express a wish that what happened to us in 2009 had happened to him in 2014. I wouldn't particularly advocate physically destroying the man's placard, or attempting to physically drive him and his supporters off the demonstration. But a movement in which "no to IDF, no to Hamas" is considered beyond the pale even for debate and discussion, and must be violently confronted, but a placard promoting The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion can be carried without challenge, even for a moment, and its carrier find numerous defenders, needs to change its political culture.
Relativist tossers willing to promote Hizb ut-Tahir's misogyny
Following the publication of this pretentious filth at the Graun's Comment Is Free site, it's a pleasure to republish the following article, from Joanne Payton's excellent blog:
In Australia, there is an event called the Festival of Dangerous Ideas, with some high-calibre contributors, like Salman Rushdie and Steven Pinker. One of the speakers they invited was one Uthman Badar, of Hizb ut-Tahrir. The title of the speech was Honour Killings are Morally Justified.
Badar says he did not choose the topic himself, but accepted it upon the urgings of the board. The festival's co-curator Simon Longstaff said he had nominated the topic for six years in a row, because the point of the festival is to push boundaries "to the point where you become extremely uncomfortable".
Yet again, misogyny, racism and violence against minoritised women is considered edgy, rather than banal and conservative.
What's more edgy and dangerous and uncomfortable than suggesting the world is a better place because a Tunisian father burned his 13 year old daughter alive? What's more edgy and dangerous than saying certain women and girls don't deserve to live?
For Aya, it was 'dangerous' to walk home from school with one of her classmates, and no doubt somewhat more than 'extremely uncomfortable' to die of burns a few days later.
It is a wonder that Longstaff didn't realise that other speakers had balked the topic for six years in a row not because it was "uncomfortable", but because it was morally repugnant: hate-speech as clickbait, where the names and faces of the victims are erased for the sake of a headline.
Enter Uthman Badar, the only man vainglorious enough to make the attempt. There are, of course, many experts in 'honour'-based violence, people who have dedicated their careers to exploring its dynamics, conducting research, developing protection measures, supporting victims. Badar is not one of them. According to his Academia.edu page, he's an economist (although apparently, he is not actually a student of the university that he claims to attend).
Even Badar doesn't seem to have wanted to defend the murders of girls and women and young men: his preamble suggests he's not even going to try and justify 'honour' killing. Let's look at what he was going to say:
"Overwhelmingly, those who condemn honour killing are based in the liberal democracies of the West."
This is untrue:
Here are 300 Tunisians demonstrating against the murder of Aya.
We in the West know about 'honour' killings only because they were brought to our attention by local activists: it was Asma Jahangir's decision to exceed her brief as Special Rapporteur into Extrajudicial Executions that brought the subject up; it was Rana Husseini's activism against the laws of Jordan that told us how embedded such crimes were in their societies, and it was Fadime Sahindal's prediction of her own death that raised the topic as something which occurred in the West.
Perhaps it is true that many of those who commit honour killings may not be based in the liberal democracies of the West but that doesn't mean that they are accepted within their societies. Of all the Muslim countries surveyed by Pew, only in two did more respondents approve than disapprove of 'honour' crimes. Overwhelmingly, the scholars and activists who work against 'honour'-based violence are people working in their own countries and communities, both within and outside the 'West'. To ignore this fact demonstrates a strangely Eurocentric world view.
Aya's father is taken as an exemplar of Tunisia: Aya herself is erased, the 300 Tunisian protesters are erased, Tunisian women's rights activists are erased, the fact that 'honour' killings are vanishingly rare in Tunisia is erased. And this is all done in order that Badar can synechodically present 'honour' killers as the true representatives of 'Eastern' culture. This smacks of orientalism in itself: the presentation of a diverse culture and people as homogeneously violent, and obsessed with 'honour', against reams of evidence to the contrary.
And so, the next sentence:
"The accuser and moral judge is the secular (white) Westerner and the accused is the oriental other: the powerful condemn the powerless."
The person at the actual nadir of powerlessness, the victim, is totally absent from Badar's analysis. The actual situation — where the accuser and moral judge is the enculturated (brown) Easterner and the accused is the feminine other: where the powerful not only condemn, but slaughter the powerless – is erased. The victim is erased, and the murderer is granted victimhood in her stead.
And on:
"By taking a particular cultural view of honour, some killings are condemned, while others are celebrated: in turn, the act becomes a symbol of everything which is wrong with the other culture."
Let's ignore this strange position where we are led to believe that some killings are celebrated, which seems to be an attempt at whataboutery and decontextualisation too vague for me to parse. On the other hand, his point that the discourse of 'honour' is used to demonise the 'other' culture is unavoidably true. However, there are many more people who are far better qualified to argue this than Badar. Aisha Gill and Avtar Brah have done this excellently, and are feminists to boot.
Katherine Pratt Ewing, to give another example, has written an entire book on the topic, and a speech by her on how 'honour' crimes are used to stigmatise minorities would be informative, and moreover, informed by research. That is not what Longstaff wanted though: it wouldn't have have got him in the headlines.
After the cancellation of the speech due to public outcry, Badar produced a petulant statement which attributes the outcry to Islamaphobia, as did Longstaff: 'Have not the 'Islamophobes' already won the day when a person dare not speak on controversial matters because he is Muslim?', he tweeted, rather pompously.
Let's consider this charge for a second. Almost all Muslim organisations take pains to distance themselves from 'honour' killings. Almost all serious scholars address the issues of culture with caution, and with due attention to the worrying levels of xenophobia in the West. Training materials in use by professionals to help them respond to 'honour'-related violence in the family stress the importance of not making cultural assumptions.
Just as a thought experiment, consider this: if you really hated Muslims and Islam, what would be the best way of overturning all this good work done in balancing the rights to life and freedom of young people (many, but not all, of whom are Muslim) with respect for the culture of their families? How about promoting a speech called 'Honour Killings are Morally Justified', and getting a speaker whose only qualification is being a Muslim to present it? Would that work? I think it would.
H/T: KB Player
Searchlight warns of "Anti-Fascist Resistance in Ukraine" scam
Above: sub-Stalinist and Putin supporter Andrew Murray addresses the meeting
The following warning to the Left comes from Gerry Gable of Searchlight, the UK's longest-established anti-fascist publication. It was published on 1st June, the day before the inaugural meeting of 'Anti-Fascist Resistance in Ukraine':
The so-called Anti-Fascist Resistance in Ukraine has called a meeting on the evening of Monday 2 June at SOAS. The British left and anti-fascist movement has been canvassed to take part.
The warning below, which exposes these political crooks, comes from genuine anti-fascists in Ukraine. President Putin's media Trojan Horse, the Russia Today TV station, presents as commentators Nazis from Germany and the UK, and people involved in the far-right LaRouche cult group without explaining who they really are.
Over the past few weeks RT has featured Paul Weston from the tiny Islamophobic Liberty GB party, who has been associated with the English Defence League. Weston was described on screen as a civil rights activist. Also on was Manuel Ochsenreiter, editor of Zuerst!, a glossy German Nazi magazine. Then came the man from LaRouche's international Executive Intelligence Newsletter, the happy hunting ground of several intelligence services. This is the group responsible for the death in 2003 of the British student Jeremiah Duggan in Germany, a death that will be subject to a new inquest in the North London Coroner's Court next February.
Our comrade who has written the paragraphs that follow, is one of the most experienced investigators of what really goes on in Moscow and Kiev. He expresses his sorrow, as do I, about the way part of the British and European left are being manipulated by these enemies of the true anti-fascist struggle.
The so-called "Solidarity with the Antifascist Resistance in Ukraine" is simply a scam.
Borotba, which "represents" the Ukrainian side (their guy will address the meeting on Skype), is a fake left-wing organisation the representatives of which are now travelling across Europe to get funding for their dodgy activities. No decent left-wing group in Ukraine is cooperating with them. This is very much worth reading:
At the same time, Borotba has been cooperating with the so-called "Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine". Its leader, Natalya Vitrenko, is a long-time associate of LaRouche:
Borotba also supports the self-proclaimed Donetsk People Republic, the "constitution" of which proclaims an authoritarian clerical regime.
It's really painful to see that so many people fall victim of the idiotic propaganda.
H/t to Comrade Coatesy for drawing our attention to this bizarre affair. Coatesy also gives more detail about Lyndon LaRouche (aka "Lyn Marcus"):
The name LaRouche should send alarm bells ringing.
I will just cite this (there are thousands of pages on the Net about him) about this creature, " Why is LaRouche considered a crank in some circles? Consider the following tidbits drawn from numerous similar statements over 30 years. According to LaRouche, The Beatles (who "had no genuine musical talent") were created by the "British Psychological Warfare Division" and promoted "by agencies which are controlled by British intelligence."
Furthermore, the Queen of England and the British royal family run the global drug trade. 37 LaRouche asks: "Who is pushing the world toward war?" It is "the forces behind the World Wildlife Fund, the Club of Rome, and the heritage of H.G. Wells and the evil Bertrand Russell."38 Having a hard time as a political activist? LaRouche has the cure! He is "confident and capable of ending your political-and sexual-impotence; the two are interconnected aspects of the same problem….I am going to make you organizers…by taking your bedrooms away from you….I shall destroy your sense of safety…." From here.
We urge you to read Coatesy's account, which is rather more even-handed than we're inclined to be, and includes a link to a statement from the 'Anti-Fascist Resitance in Ukraine' campaign and from Borotba, putting their side of the argument. But there can be no doubt that this so-called "anti-fascist" campaign is a quite extraordinary rotten bloc of genuine dupes of Putin, sub-Stalinists, degenerate ex-Trotskyists and far-right conspiracy theorists with Nazi links.
See also: Dale Street on the Prime Minister of the Donetsk People's Republic
Farage taken apart in live LBC interview
LBC: "In an interview that has been described in the media as "car-crash radio", "brutal" and "forensic", Mr Farage looked rattled before his Director of Communications Patrick O'Flynn interrupted and called an end to the debate."
The bourgeois media finally does its job re UKIP; about bloody time too.
Congrats to forensic, dead-pan interviewer James O'Brien, who refuses to be deflected by Farage's bullshit and bluster:
Still, at least UKIP didn't call the cops.
UKIP – Suited Not Booted
Reblogged from British Contemporary History:
By Matt Cooper
A review of Robert Ford and Matthew Goodwin, Revolt on the Right: Explaining the Support for the Radical Right in Britain (Abingdon: Routledge, 2014)
[If you find the tables difficult to read in this version, click here for this review as a PDF Ford, Robert and Goodwin, Matthew (2014) Revolt on the Right (Review) without notes]
In this new book Robert Ford and Matthew Goodwin of Nottingham University offer a rigorous analysis of the electoral support for parties of the radical right in British (or perhaps more accurately English) politics. The space beyond the Conservative pale is now primarily occupied by UKIP, but the analysis necessarily included BNP too, whose electoral fortunes have gone into deep decline since Matthew Goodwin published his 2011 book on the BNP, New British Fascism. Since 2010 UKIP have achieved a degree of success much greater than the BNP had after its breakthrough in the 2003 local elections. Most notably since 2010 UKIP have won second place in four Westminster by-elections, but only in the far from typical Eastleigh by-election came anywhere close to winning.
Whether UKIP can turn that into success in elections to the House of Commons is another matter. Ford and Goodwin examine carefully the seats where the voters are likely to be most attracted to UKIP polices with the incumbents already vulnerable to small swings allowing UKIP to come through the middle between the two main parties. This might allow UKIP to unseat the Conservatives in Waveney or Great Yarmouth (both in East Anglia), both Conservative gains in 2010 but also Labour gains in 1997. To unseat a sitting Labour MP it would require UKIP to attract voters from Labour in a way that they have not done in any of the by-elections held in Labour seats since 2010.
Currently it is the Conservatives who appear worried about UKIP with David Cameron clearly unsure how to deal with them, having backed away from his 2006 tactic of branding them 'fruitcakes and closet racists' but seemingly having no better tactic than ignoring them and hoping that the problem will go away. The Liberal Democrats perhaps have most to lose, their position as the default 'none of the above' vote having been lost to UKIP and having seen their vote collapse in a series of by-elections since 2010. Nick Clegg misjudged his 2014 debates with UKIP's leader Nigel Farage believing that debunking Eurosceptic myths would see him home. As Ford and Goodwin show, UKIP's appeal is one of anti-politics, and so long as Farage appeared more of an outsider than Deputy Prime Minister (hardly a tough call) he could only win.
Labour's position is to stand back and look at the carnage. Ford and Goodwin suggest that this is short sighted since UKIP's electoral base is not Conservatives in exile, as believed by those at The Spectator who would like to see the Conservatives take a sharp right turn in social policy to match their economic austerity. Rather they believe that UKIP draws from Labour's traditional working class base. They argue that UKIP's revolt is a working class phenomenon. Its support is concentrated among older, blue-collar workers, with little education and few skills: a group who have been 'left behind' by the economic and social transformation of Britain in recent decades, and pushed to the margin as the main parties have converged on the centre ground. UKIP is not a second home for disgruntled Tories in the shires: they are the first home for angry and disaffected working-class Britons of all political backgrounds, who have lost faith in a political system that ceased to represent them long ago.
Cool jihadism
Recently George Monbiot compared the foreign jihadists in Syria to the International Brigade in Spain.
What was said about the International Brigade – that every one of them who came back wrote a book?
If they didn't write books, they certainly read them via the Left Book Club. They were serious minded comrades who led a rough life in Spain in devotion to their cause
If their modern counterpart are the likes who join the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) then intellectual standards have slipped.
"their discourse is notably different from that of their fellow mujahideen from Muslim countries. Although these Western fighters, like their counterparts, focus a great deal on death and on their desire for martyrdom and the accompanying rewards of the akhira (hereafter), many of them also seem keen on enjoying life in the dunya (i.e. in this world) until martyrdom arrives. Many of the Westerners speak of jihad as "fun," stressing the thrills of life on the front (gunfights, jeep rides, etc), as well as the availability of leisure activity and the access to many aspects of modern life. They also emphasize the perks of jihad and taking war booty – good eating and free use of appropriated luxury accommodations and cars – and all this without having to give up the gadgets and even the same snack foods that they enjoyed back home.
In fact, the jihad fighters from the West bring with them the lifestyle and youth culture with which they grew up. This is expressed particularly in their references to rap culture – such as the violence-steeped music of rapper Tupac Shakur (one jihadi even created and shared a humorous montage showing the non-Muslim Tupac with a cross on his chest "hanging out" with Osama bin Laden) – or references to violent video games like "Call of Duty." These influences, which are flagrantly alien to traditional Islamic culture, appear repeatedly in their discourse. These fighters do not perceive their duty as requiring them to abandon all aspects of the lifestyle to which they are accustomed.
Furthermore, in contrast to jihad in the Islamic tradition, which is a religious duty carried out solely to express devotion to Allah and the Muslim community, many of these young jihad fighters from the West are making it personal, focusing on their own actions and glorifying their own role in it – as can be seen from the selfies, Instagram photos, and the like that they share and circulate. Their heavy use of Photoshop and other software to enhance images is another practice borrowed from Western Internet culture, as is their writing, with its abbreviations and alternative spellings punctuated by exclamation marks. This combination of Islamic and Western aspects has the effect of making their da'wa more accessible and appealing to young people living in the West."
Fortunately these fascist dickheads are burning their passports, so with any luck they won't come back to the place where these were issued.
Eff off, Morrissey
We don't particularly like A.A Gill here. But his award-winning hatchet-job on that pretentious pillock Morrissey, is much to our liking…
… here 'tis:
A A Gill on Autobiography by Morrissey
AS NOËL Coward might have said, nothing incites intemperate cultural hyperbole like cheap music. Who can forget that the Beatles were once authoritatively lauded as the equal of Mozart, or that Bob Dylan was dubbed a contemporary Keats? The Beatles continued to ignore Covent Garden, and Mozart is rarely heard at Glastonbury; Dylan has been silently culled from the latest edition of the Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English.
The publication of Autobiography was the second item on Channel 4's news on the day it was released. Krishnan Guru-Murthy excitably told the nation that Morrissey really could write — presumably he was reading from an Autocue — and a pop journalist thrilled that he was one of the nation's greatest cultural icons. He isn't even one of Manchester's greatest cultural icons.
This belief in high-low cultural relativity leads to a certain sort of chippy pop star feeling undervalued and then hoitily producing a rock opera or duet with concert harpsichord. Morrissey, though, didn't have to attain the chip of being needily undervalued; he was born with it. He tells us he ditched "Steve", his given name, to be known by his portentous unimoniker because — deep reverential breath here — great classical composers only have one name. Mussorgsky, Mozart, Morrissey.
His most pooterishly embarrassing piece of intellectual social climbing is having this autobiography published by Penguin Classics. Not Modern Classics, you understand, where the authors can still do book signings, but the classic Classics, where they're dead and some of them only have one name. Molière, Machiavelli, Morrissey.
He has made up for being alive by having a photograph of himself pretending to be dead on the cover. The book's publication was late and trade gossip has it that Steve insisted on each and every bookshop taking a minimum order of two dozen, misunderstanding how modern publishing works. But this is not unsurprising when you read the book. He is constantly moaning about record producers not pressing enough discs to get him to No 1. What is surprising is that any publisher would want to publish the book, not because it is any worse than a lot of other pop memoirs, but because Morrissey is plainly the most ornery, cantankerous, entitled, whingeing, self-martyred human being who ever drew breath. And those are just his good qualities.
The book falls into two distinct passages. The first quarter is devoted to growing up in Manchester (where he was born in 1959) and his schooling. This is laughably overwrought and overwritten, a litany of retrospective hurt and score-settling that reads like a cross between Madonna and Catherine Cookson. No teacher is too insignificant not to be humiliated from the heights of success, no slight is too small not to be rehashed with a final, killing esprit d'escalier. There are pages of lists of television programmes he watched (with plot analysis and character criticism). He could go on Mastermind with the specialist subject of Coronation Street or the works of Peter Wyngarde. There is the food he ate, the groups that appeared on Top of the Pops (with critical comments) and the poetry he liked (with quotes).
All of this takes quite a lot of time due to the amount of curlicues, falderals and bibelots he insists on dragging along as authorial decoration. Instead of adding colour or depth, they simply result in a cacophony of jangling, misheard and misused words. After 100 pages, he's still at the school gate kicking dead teachers.
But then he sets off on the grown-up musical bit and the writing calms down and becomes more diary-like, bloggish, though with an incontinent use of italics that are a sort of stage direction or aside to the audience. He changes tenses in ways that are supposed to be elegant but just sound camp. There is one passage that stands out — this is the first time he sings. "Against the command of everyone I had ever known, I sing. My mouth meets the microphone and the tremolo quaver eats the room with acceptable pitch and I am removed from the lifelong definition of others and their opinions matter no more. I am singing the truth by myself which will also be the truth of others and give me a whole life. Let the voice speak up for once and for all." That has the sense of being both revelatory and touching, but it stands out like the reflection of the moon in a sea of Stygian self-justification and stilted self-conscious prose.
The hurt recrimination is sometimes risible but mostly dull, like listening to neighbours bicker through a partition wall, and occasionally startlingly unpleasant, such as the reference to the Moors murderers and the unfound grave of their victim Keith Bennett. "Of course, had Keith been a child of privilege or moneyed background, the search would never have been called off. But he was a poor, gawky boy from Manchester's forgotten side streets and minus the blond fantasy fetish of a cutesy Madeleine McCann."
It's what's left out of this book rather than what's put in that is strangest. There is an absence of music, not just in its tone, but the content. There are emetic pools of limpid prose about the music business, the ingratitude of fellow musicians and band members and the lack of talent in other performers, but there is nothing about the making of music itself, the composing of lyrics, the process of singing or the emotion of creation. He seems to assume we will already know his back catalogue and can hum along to his recorded life. This is 450 pages of what makes Morrissey, but nothing of what Morrissey makes.
There is the peevishness at managers, record labels and bouncers, a list of opaque court cases, all of which he manages to lose unfairly, due to the inherited stupidity of judges. Even his relation with the audience is equivocal. Morrissey likes them when they're worshipping from a distance, but he is not so keen when they're up close. As an adolescent he approaches Marc Bolan for an autograph. Bolan refuses and Morrissey, still awkwardly humiliated after all these years, has the last word. But then later in the book and life, he does exactly the same thing to his own fans without apparent irony.
There is little about his private life. A boyfriend slips in and out with barely a namecheck. This is him on his early sexual awakening: "Unfathomably I had several cupcake grapples in this year of 1973… Plunge or no plunge, girls remain mysteriously attracted to me." There is precious little plunging after that.
There are many pop autobiographies that shouldn't be written. Some to protect the unwary reader, and some to protect the author. In Morrissey's case, he has managed both. This is a book that cries out like one of his maudlin ditties to be edited. But were an editor to start, there would be no stopping. It is a heavy tome, utterly devoid of insight, warmth, wisdom or likeability. It is a potential firelighter of vanity, self-pity and logorrhoeic dullness. Putting it in Penguin Classics doesn't diminish Aristotle or Homer or Tolstoy; it just roundly mocks Morrissey, and this is a humiliation constructed by the self-regard of its victim.
This article originally appeared in The Sunday Times on 27/10/13
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The Dieudonnic Plague
David Rich has a very good, and very depressing article on Dieudonne and his kind:-
"Making common cause" between Holocaust deniers, neo-fascists, the pro-Palestinian left, and the revolutionary Islamists of Iran is precisely what Dieudonné has spent the past decade trying to achieve. Originally from the political left, he has moved via anti-Israel rhetoric and the fascist Front National (FN) to the establishment of his own Parti Anti Sioniste (PAS, or Anti-Zionist Party). Alongside him in the PAS is essayist and filmmaker Alain Soral, who underwent a similar journey from the Marxist left to the FN before finding a political home with Dieudonné.
There are not many political movements that can embrace the neo-fascist right, the anti-capitalist left, and Iranian revolutionary Islamism. Dieudonné is close to FN leaders—Jean Marie Le Pen is godfather to one of his children—while also attracting fans who consider themselves to be left-wing radicals. He was a guest in Tehran of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and received Iranian funding for a film project. Historically, movements that successfully pulled off this kind of balancing act have tended to rely on anti-Semitism as their glue, expressed through the lingua franca of conspiracist anti-Zionism, and PAS is no different.
Strikingly, for a party that calls itself anti-Zionist, PAS's political program makes no direct mention of Israel or Palestine. This is parochial, patriotic anti-Zionism, in which Zionism is portrayed primarily as a subversive, corrupting presence in French society.
Radio 4's The Report had the journalist Helen Grady interviewing Dieudonne's friends and followers. Sometimes they said "Zionist" where they obviously meant "Jewish" and sometimes they said, "I'm not antisemitic but Jews run everything". Also, Dieudonne gave them the thrill of saying, or just hinting at, the forbidden. – not just "you don't say that" but "you can't say that" because it's illegal in a state with laws against Holocaust denial. This was interpreted as special treatment for Jews while other minorities are fair game.
I was sorry the reporter didn't ask them to explain who these Zionists are and what are these utterances that are so dammed by the laws – not that I agree with Holocaust denial laws or anti free speech and expression laws in general. In fact I would like to know how much these laws exacerbate the sense of resentment that is one of the emotional bases of Fascism. Certainly breaking them, or hinting that you were, gave the audience a lovely outsider frisson.
Anti-Zionist and Anti-Establishment
Some of these gagged folk came from immigrant communities – their parents from North Africa say – and they had good words to say of the Front National – at least they're honest when the rest are hypocrites.
It was your worst gibbering blog thread taking flesh, with hideous whiffs of the 1930s, in all their bizarre irrationality.
Rich concludes with a warning for those who think It Can't Happen Here:-
. .it would be complacent to assume that Dieudonné's anti-establishment appeal, expressed through angry, transgressive satire and political stunts, could not find a British audience. The personal followings of Nigel Farage MEP and George Galloway MP demonstrate the appetite in the UK for charismatic, populist anti-politics. .. A Francophone comic with a taste for the surreal is likely to have trouble finding a mass audience in Britain; but his populist anti-politics, carrying a coded anti-Semitism and transmitted via social media, may have better luck in finding an audience..
The anti-establishment comedian who thinks all political institutions are a waste of time is Russell Brand, but to do him justice, he is nothing like as malevolent as Dieudonne, and I can't see him doing Holocaust jokes or chumming up with David Irving. I can't see him getting in bed with UKIP either, which is the closest thing here to the Front National. I don't keep up with popular culture, and there may be obvious candidates for the Dieudonne role that I've missed.
Respect was a party that pulled in some of the political groups that are attracted to Dieudonne:- the pro-Palestinian Left and Islamists, and no doubt Holocaust deniers would pop up in such a crowd. Gilad Atzmon would be the obvious entertainer, but he's not a man of any great charisma or the popular touch. However, it's hard to think of the neo-Fascist right finding a home there, and Respect is now mostly a fantasy in Galloway's head.
The most laughable, preposterous and irrelevant left-wing faction fight … ever
I was going to put a question-mark at the end of that headline, but on reflection decided not to. I think we can be unequivocal about this.
When I was a callow young Trotskyist and James P. Cannon fan, older, more experienced comrades told me that Cannon's organisation, the American SWP (no relation to the Brit group of the same name) had gone off the rails very badly in the 1950's, when Cannon began to take a back seat and handed the reins over to lesser figures like Joseph Hansen. Evidence of this petty bourgeois degeneration, I was told, was a ludicrous faction fight over the question of women's cosmetics that threatened to tear the SWP apart. In the end, good ol' James P. came out of semi-retirement to bang heads together and tell Hansen and the comrades to get a grip and stop arguing about such irrelevant nonsense. Anyway, that's how I remember being told about it.
As you can imagine, I never (until now) took the trouble to investigate the matter in any detail, but if you're interested, quite a good account is given here, and you can even read some of the contemporaneous internal documents here, if you scroll down to No. A-23, October 1954. On the other hand, like myself when I was first told about the Great Cosmetics Faction Fight (GCFF), you may feel that life's too short…
The point being, that I've always carried round in the back of my mind a vague recollection of the GCFF as a prime example of petty bourgeois leftist irrelevance, and probably the most ridiculous and laughable left-group factional dispute of all time.
Until now.
The recent row within the International Socialist Network, resulting in the resignations of some of its most prominent members, makes the SWP's GCFF look quite down to earth and sensible. If you ever wanted an example of why serious, socialist-inclined working class people all too often regard the far left as a bunch of irrelevant, posturing tossers, this is it. Don't ask me what it's all about, or what "race play" is. Comrade Coatesy gives some helpful background here and here. More detail for the serious connoisseur (aka "more discerning customer" wink, wink, reaching under the counter) here and here.
I'll simply add, for now, that this preposterous business does appear to be genuine (rather than, as some might reasonably suspect, an exercise in sitautionist performance art and/or anti-left political satire) and is also one of those rather pleasing situations in which no-one in their right mind cares who wins: both sides are unspeakably awful self-righteous jerks. Actually, the ISN majority strike me as, if anything, even worse than Seymour, Miéville and their friend "Magpie" – if that's possible. Still, it's hard not to endulge in just a little schadenfreude at the discomfiture of Richard "Partially Contingent" Seymour, a character who's made a minor career out of sub-Althussarian pretentiousness and "anathematising" others on the left for their real or imagined transgressions against "intersectionality", and now falls victim to it himself.
Those who live by intersectionality, die by intersectionality.
Or, as Seymour himself put it in his seminal postgraduate thesis Patriarchy and the capitalist state:
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Monolithic surface micromachined fluidic devices for dielectrophoretic preconcentration and routing of particles, James, C.D., Okandan, M., Mani, S.S., Galambos, P.C., Shul, R., Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 2006, 16, pp.1909-1918.
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Surface Micromachined Cell Manipulation Device for Transfection and Sample Preparation, Murat Okandan, Paul Galambos, Sita Mani, Jay Jakubczak, presented at MicroTAS '01, Monteray, CA, October 2001.
Development of Surface Micromachining Technologies for MIcrofluidics and BioMEMS, Murat Okandan, paul Galambos, Sita Mani, Jay Jakubczak, presented at SPIE Micromachining and Microfabrication Conference, San Francisco, CA, October 2001.
A Surface Micromachined Electrostatic Drop Ejector, Paul Galambos, Kevin Zavadil, Rick Givler, Frank Peter, Art Gooray, George Roller, Joe Crowley, presented at Transducers '01 conference, Munich, Germany, June 2001.
A MEMS Ejector for Printing Applications, A. Gooray, G. Roller, P. Galambos, K. Zavadil, R. Givler, F. Peter, J. Crowley, presented at NIP 2001, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, September 2001.
A Surface Micromachined Electrostatic Drop Ejector, Paul Galambos, Kevin Zavadil, Rick Givler, Frank Peter, Art Gooray, George Roller, Joe Crowley, presented at Transducers '01 conference, Munich, Germany, June 2001.
Electrical and Fluidic Packaging of Surface Micromachined Electro-Microfluidic Devices, Paul Galambos and Gil Benavides, presented at SPIE Micromachining and Microfabrication Conference, San Jose, CA, September 2000.
Surface Micromachine Microfluidics: Design, Fabrication, Packaging, and Characterization, Paul Galambos, William P. Eaton, Randy Shul, Christi Gober Willison, Jeffry J. Sniegowski, Samuel L. Miller, Daniel Gutierrez, presented at the ASME Winter Annual Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, November 1999.
Silicon Nitride Membranes for Filtration and Separation, Paul Galambos*, Kevin Zavadil, Randy Shul, Christi Gober Willison, and Sam Miller, presented at SPIE Micromachining and Micrfabrication Conference, San Jose, CA, September 1999.
An Optical Micro-Fluidic Viscometer, Paul Galambos, Fred K. Forster, presented at ASME Winter Annual Meeting, Los Angelos, CA, November 1998.
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Does anyone have any experience with these melters? They seem to be a great price at less than $500 for an 18kg chocolate melter.
I just want to make sure I'm not throwing money at a melter that won't hold a stable temp.
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I don't have any experience with that melter, but have been thinking about getting this food warmer to use as a chocolate melter:
Has anyone used one of these? How did it work?
Did you check the temperature that the bottom/sides of the pan get while heating the contents? It's one thing to heat water and see that it's holding the temperature at around 140. HOWEVER.... Chocolate burns VERY easily. Did you take the temperature of the walls of your food warmer while it was getting the contents to the "stand by" temperature? If the walls go higher than 180 F, you're going to have some burnt chocolate on your hands.
It is this exact reason that almost every chocolate melter on the market uses either warm water, or a gentle, non direct heat source and not the heating elements used in food warmers.
Just food for thought....
Good point, Brad. I haven't yet, but I'll test it and post my results. I could use water with this as well, but wanted to avoid that if possible.
One other data point: on its lowest setting, it warmed the pan of water to 100F and held it there. It took a few hours to reach that temp.
To everyone looking to shave a few bucks off a purchase, capital acquisition costs are only a small part of the total cost picture, or total cost of operation (TCO).
Operating a piece of equipment can cost more than buying it.
If one piece of equipment is less energy efficient than another, then it may make more sense to buy the more expensive piece of equipment as it will be cheaper in the long run
Ben - the unit you're looking at is a food warmer. It wants to hold food above 150F. That's real high for chocolate. I'd contact the company (or the web site) and ask them what the bottom end of the range on the thermostat is. Even is 150F is okay, you'll pay more to keep it at that temp than at 120F - and it will cost more in the long run, even if you saved a few bucks up front.
Thanks Clay. Definitely good points. I've got an email in to them. I'll post their reply when I get it. I'm mostly looking for something to pre-melt chocolate to load into my tempering machine--not really hold it at temp once melted.
I realize you don't need a stable temp.
The question is: "How long will it take for any given approach to melting chocolate take to melt X weight to desired temp?" This melter might be real fast - too fast, in fact in that it will melt far more chocolate than you need far more quickly than you need to a temperature much higher than you need.
If so, then whatever money you're saving on the equipment you're losing in increased energy costs.
Or maybe not. There could be ways to much more closely monitor the equipment, but it won't be "set and forget" especially at the beginning.
I ordered one last night around 7:30 and it's already on the truck for delivery today.
This one can be operated wet or dry, so moisture shouldn't be a problem. Dry operation, like most of the 'true' chocolate melters, was one of the characteristics I was looking for. Most of the food warmers that I found required water.
I don't have any chocolate needing melting today, but I'll try to do some tests with water in the pan to see how well it works.
So, I tested the food warmer using a hotel pan of cool water. I started by setting the warmer to 4. This brought the water up to 140 and held it pretty consistently for an hour or so. The next day, I set it to 3 and it held it right at 130 for several hours.
So, it looks like it can hold temp pretty well and can go low enough to be used to melt chocolate. I haven't had a chance to actually melt chocolate with it, but it looks like a viable alternative to more expensive melters.
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I am a life long catholic of 64 years and I don't understand what the church is doing.. I know they are fully aware of this 2nd to the last pope prophecy.... So are they deliberately trying to fulfill it or make it happen?
As a former Catholic, I don't give a s**t about the Catholic church, or monotheism in general. I would pay real money to see the Vatican torn down, sold for scrap, and reestablish Jupiter as the supreme being and all the plethora of misfits of all the Roman Gods of Goddess to boot.
I really wish people would just abandon religion. Old superstition that has no place in modern society and divides people. Some are hindu, some are muslims, some are christians and the rest of us are watching in disbelief. I absolutely hate what religion has done to people throughout history. Burning, torturing and killing people while feeling mentally superior - much like the nazis. The only thing I can come up with is that it is rooted deep in people similar to what Our parent teach us. Opinions not necessarily true but rooted to deep to be discarded.
It is interesting that Arthur C Clark who had a few rather interesting prophetic hits in his career. Has in one of his novels, I think it may have been "3001", Rome being destroyed and a pope called Peter!
One should not let a symbolic figure head such as a Pope affect one's belief or faith. If Ronald McDonald suddenly resigned, would burger lovers stop eating big macs at their favorite said fast-food chain?
The Vatican hired Mauro Biglino, a scholar of ancient languages, to translate some ancient Masorotic (not sure of spelling) Hebrew Old Testament texts... and fired him around book 19 because ... he kept finding references to Anunak and similar names who were not at all gods, even tho' they lived very long lives, but rather, from space... Biglino also discovered NO original sin (so think of all the lies over the centuries!) and no savior predictions in the old testament... so far it has only been published in Italian... but it's getting out, there are people talking about it and the Vatican is already publishing some bogus version of it... meanwhile, the English version is coming... I think THAT has more to do with why the Pope is stepping down than anything, the whole charade is going to collapse... between scandals, money disappearing, pedophiles... good riddance.
@Lisa A - I will check out Biglino. What he has to say sounds very interesting. Thanks for that... didn't know about him.
The Oh of Pleasure is for me at least Perfect for Dreamland.. I even work it into my own Meditations; I hope you chose not to change. BB.
You don't have to pay a dime. We already have a plethora of misfits. They live and work in Washington D.C.
I love how people say the Bible is a fairy tale. But actually if you take time to read it, funny how our reality seems to follow along its prophetic timeline as prophecy after prophecy come to pass. But if you never read it and studied it, I guess you wouldn't know. Oh and every one is entitled to there own belief. But I for one hate all the New Age..ers calling Jesus a master and comparing him to Budda, reaching nirvana and raising from the dead are two different things. Jesus filled over a few hundred O.T prophecies as well. Budda never did that either. Just food for thought. Not every one has to be Christen. but I for one see Christ as Son of God, Part of the Holy trinity, massiah and not just a Master. And I myself believe in aliens and come from a science backround. But we need to start dropping the whole arrogant ego trip and admit a higher power is in charge and no we homo sapians havn't and will never figure it all out. Have some faith.
Thousands of early Christans some being eye witnesses to the ressurection, lost thier lives instead of denounce what they witnessed, Why hundreds of thousands would be so eager to loose their lives if the ressurection never happened, just tell your captives "hey why not let me go, Jesus who"? And keep your life, my point I wouldn't offer my life over for myth. Most people never look at Christianity from that point of view.
This is just affirmating. The millions (including family) but it's ok by our understanding are waiting for the " I told you so moment"-- , it will never come! We love Jesus!, but we are ready to love Buddha and Allha too! , ahaa.
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It may be worth running Dave Davies' music as Dreamland's theme for a few weeks and then put it to an online snap poll.
Personally, I like both pieces of music, and why have just one theme per show? One theme could play the show in and the other the out play.
Coast to Coast has used separate themes for its start and finish for years and it allows a groovy flexibility.
All said and done, no harm in trying something new.
My two cents- I'd vote for alternating or rotating both pieces of music. I like them both.
Insofar as the Catholic Church is concerned, it's been becoming less and less relevant over the past few decades, and it feels like the current pope stepping down is another screw popping out of that frame. The church has to find a way to address the changes that need to happen within and without, and it's been flailing about for too long now. Unless it's willing to make some big and likely painful changes, it's entirely possible that the next pope could be the last.
This sounds exactly like Godfather Part III! (The part with John Paul)
I agree. I think personal spirituality is much more important than ascribing to a particular religion .
Oh, just for a clarification....Buddha is not a "god." A Buddha is an enlightened human being. Sorry, but too many people make that mistake. I was shocked to find a rabbinical student "shocked" at that discovery. There were a number of "historical Buddhas, however everyone has a "Buddha
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A lot of people thought we'd never make it to the Omaha Home & Garden Expo this past weekend due to Winter Storm Nemo, but those people apparently didn't catch a little show called The Amazing Race. We used all our best Race training to get on the last plane out of Albany (following the […]
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I think this would be fantastic idea if realized. I read so much as a book blogger that waiting for hold books at the library or coming up with the money to buy the books -the newest books coming out that I have not received for review in advance.
I personally as an avid reader and subscriber of several different online reading sites for "cheaper" books would be willing to pay a monthly or yearly subscription fee just like I do for audible.com or Amazon prime to get access to cheaper products.
If I enjoy a book I buy a physical copy.
Sure the library is free, but also very limited on how many copies of books are available and not all books are available at the local library, I'm always on a waiting list. In this day and age, even rotation of titles available for "borrowing" or "streaming" would be a wonderful change from standing in line. I think if people have access to cheaper and free books, even if it's for a limited time during the year for certain titles, it would lessen the desire for people to search for illegal copies online. And in my opinion people will end up buying those books they really enjoy in the end.
E-Book Subscription Service Oyster Gets $3 Million in Funding, Wants to Be Spotify for Books
E-book subscription service Oyster has secured $3 million dollars in venture funding that it will use to build a sort of Spotify for e-books: a subscription service for which users will pay a monthly fee and then read as many titles as they want. Unlike other subscription e-book services, the content on Oyster will be a wide variety of fiction and non-fiction meant to appeal to the mass market.
The New York-based start-up, founded in July 2012, will be using the venture money to hire staff and invest in product development. The funding round was led by Founders Fund, a San Francisco-based venture capital fund run by outspoken investor Peter Thiel with a portfolio that includes new media, machine learning, aerospace and other kinds of companies. More than a half-dozen other funds joined the round.
Publishers have been experimenting with subscription services for e-books. Most recently, HarperCollins announced that it would license the use of some of its business books in such a service for a company called Skillsoft. Up until now, these services have mostly been specialized, focused on art books (F+W Media, parent to DBW, and Safari Books Online) or romance titles (Sourcebooks and others). Oyster intends to aim for a wider audience.
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"We try to be very thoughtful about what makes sense for both publishers and authors, and have crafted our product and model to align with that," said the company's CEO Eric Stromberg of himself and the two other co-founders, adding that they're relatively new to the world of publishing. Stromberg has held positions at a start-up called Hunch that was acquired by eBay and as an advisor at venture capital fund Founder Collective; Andrew Brown, another of the co-founders, has held positions at Google and Microsoft; and the third, Willem Van Lancker, has spent time at Google and Apple.
While industry observers have said that it can't be done, there is a very promising model for Oyster to consider emulating: The Kindle Owners' Lending Library. The program from Amazon gives Kindle device owners who also have Amazon Prime access to read one e-book a month from a selection of nearly 200,000.
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I think this would be fantastic idea if realized. I read so much as a book blogger that waiting for hold books at the library or coming up with the money to buy the books -the newest books coming out that I have not received for review in advance.
This sounds really promising! I read so much on my phone everyday, I'm sure this will be a good buy when they launch.
I would be willing to pay what I do for Netflix ($8.00 per month) if my whole family could access it on each of their devices.
I wish Oyster the best and applaud their efforts. There will be others pushing subscriptions too that will emerge in the next few months. Will be interesting to see how the content owners (publishers) respond.
A non-distributor based subscription service with an aesthetic for good works of all genres is a beautiful thing. Laura Shabott, author of the upcoming "Confessions of an eBook Virgin: What Everyone Should Know Before They Publish on the Internet
I hope this sees a quick launch! I've done audible for so long- but really would like a book subscription service!


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Out of interest will someone else from CP be manning edugeek from now on? I've somehow never actually dealt with Simon(Joe's always handled our orders) but its been good to see a representative from a supplier engaged so much in an online forum. Its the personal touches that make CP LTD such a good supplier IMO
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