Some real charmers in the comments.



http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/brend ... -612174183

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Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.

Incredible that doesn't get modded, isn't it?

I had a comment deleted the other week. "Shit sandwich".

He's a Marxist, so he keeps telling us.

He's never met her, has no idea what paid work she's done, but knows she's a snob anyway. No notion that she was probably doing menial work in the museum. They have cleaners in museums. Does she turn up her nose at them?

All we need now is one of the "impressive" 2010 intake to say "why do public school pupils do so well in the museums industries? is it their ethos?" My money is on Chris Skidmore or Charlotte Leslie.

And of course there's no mention of the fact she was already doing an unpaid work placement relevant to her planned career, which the DWP forced her to jack in.

If O'Neill really was a Marxist, he'd realise that although we have lots of work that needs to be done and lots of people who want to work, we also have an economic system that's incapable of putting the two together.

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He's changed a bit since his "Bomb on Dominic" days.

Another really poor and very confused piece, this time about the Marikana massacre.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/brend ... -marikana/

What conspiracy of silence? It's pretty much universally accepted on the left that the ANC took a neoliberal turn way back in the '90s - not that they had much choice, having started out in government burdened with the debts of the regime that preceded them and with an 'independent' central bank stuffed full of apartheid-era cronies. There's been no shortage of condemnation on the left of their handling of the Lonmin dispute so I don't know where O'Neill gets any of this stuff from. He probably doesn't either, if he's honest. That whole Spiked crowd really are utter dullards.

The comments section is full of the usual bitter maladjusted misanthropes.

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The old "why don't they condemn Mugabe then?" article.

Is this former BNP London mayoral candidate Carlos Cortiglia I see? Nice company Brendan keeps.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/brend ... -641972017

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Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.

The BNP are leftwing. It says so all over the Telegraph.

Indeed. Funny how Carlos doesn't seem to agree. It's strange how not many BNP members consider themselves to be on the left when Torygraph readers and columnists are constantly telling us they are.

Deffo no criticism of the ANC from the left though.

http://www.redpepper.org.uk/marikana-mi ... illusions/
http://www.counterfire.org/index.php/ar ... c-marikana
http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=29387
http://www.socialistworld.net/doc/5921

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Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.

Brendan's a Marxist isn't he? He shows his love of the working class by always taking the side of the ruling class and calling those who don't middle class. Strange technique but it works for Brend.

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There is indeed long history of criticism of the ANC, Mandela and all, from the left. I had a bit of sympathy with their fiscal conservatism, given how few well off people there are as a proportion of the whole population. The threat of them leaving was much greater than our rich, and people worried about that here are by no means all stupid. You can understand the ANC getting scared.

The problem's been further down the ANC too. Mandela's successors have been deeply unimpressive.

I assume he's not keen on the rulers in South Africa somehow.

Ah, I think I've found you on there! You, I and Schoolswot are the Resistance.

It's almost admirable how Brendan O'Neill has made a professional commitment to living in opposite land.