This Too is Britain

In which I make the highly original observation that, in the week of a Royal Wedding, there is more than one way to view the UK. Both scenes from the same week. Wonder which will get more attention abroad.

Ian Tomlinson: Injustice in High Places

English Defence League; Fascism Lives!

Fantastic Guardian video report on the so-called English Defence League, Britain's latest manifestation of violent, exploitative fascist bullshit. It seems like every decade along comes another acronym that captures the poor ill-educated British working class male and gives him something to do on the Saturday afternoons that he's not being a football hooligan.