There was an intriguing film of Twelfth Night done in the late
Nineties. In it Feste (played by Ben Kingsley) is a dark and gloomy
figure, slightly threatening, while Malvolio (played by Nigel
Hawthorne) is a sort of amiable clown. There you have one side to New
Labour: humour equals nasty and puritanical hypocrisy equals cuddly.
2008/5/21 Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>:
> Oh my Ron!
>
> Canada also has a Hate speech law, & it was, of course, put into law for the
> best, most moral, of reasons, probably thinking about neo-Nazi ranting
> against 'the Jews,' but it has already been used by various groups to stop
> any kind of (often rational) criticism. Hard as it is for some, truly free
> speech seems the only workable way: wherein all sides can make their case &
> we hope (often against....) that the most rational/moral will eventually win
> through....
>
> This is transcendently silly, except it's so sadly dangerous....
>
> Doug
> On 21-May-08, at 12:57 AM, Roger Day wrote:
>
>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/may/20/1?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront
>>
>> wherein some kid gets arrested for calling Scientology a cult.
>>
>> It will be interesting to see how this:
>> http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/content.aspx?activeTextDocId=2320532
>>
>> stacks against the Human Rights Act.
>>
>> Roger
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
>> "She went out with her paint box, paints the chapel blue
>> She went out with her matches, torched the car-wash too"
>> The Go-Betweens
>>
>
> Douglas Barbour
> [log in to unmask]
>
> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
>
> Latest books:
> Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
> Wednesdays'
> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
>
> and this is 'life' and we owe at least this much
> contemplation to our western fact: to Rise,
> Decline, Fall, to futility and larks,
> to the bright crustaceans of the oversky.
>
> Phyllis Webb
>
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David Bircumshaw
Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
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