the Disillusioned kid: Horse Marries Cock
| Email | Home | Linkage | Profile |

Saturday, April 09, 2005

Horse Marries Cock



I feel I should say something about the Royal Wedding, given that I am sitting in front of my computer in the hope of avoiding it. Nothing very clever springs to mind apart from a reassertion of my complete rejection of the institution of Monarchy. Not only is it an anachronism, but it's also embarassing. Do I really want to be "represented" around the world by this bunch of inbred, blue-blooded, bigotted, half-wits? Let's just call the whole thing of, brush democracy down and start all over again.

Unfortunately, you're not exactly encouraged to say this sort of thing publicly as Republic "the campaign for an elected head of state" found out when they submitted an anti-monarchist advert (available as a pdf here) to the Daily Mail. The paper simply refused to print it and has, as yet, not given a reason. It could be worse. During the celebrations around the Jubilee in 2002, the Movement Against the Monarchy (MA'M) organised an "Execute the Queen street party". Apparently horrified by their failure to show the required degree of obsequiousness the police turned up and arrested everyone, forcing them onto a comandeered Number 11 Buswhich then dropped them off at various police stations across London. This was completely undprecedented and a ridiculous over-reaction. It ultimately cost the police a small fortune, after they had to pay out over £80,000 in damages (£3,500 for each protester). The protesters celebrated their payout by using some of the money to go for a tour around London in an open-topped Routemaster bus, stopping off at New Scotland Yard, Buckingham Palace, Plumstead and Bishopsgate Police Stations (two of the stations the arrestees were detained) before finishing off at the pub where it had all started.

Side Projects

Carnival of Anarchy
The Peace Pipe
UK Watch Blog

Acquaintances

Against the Current
Atopian.org
Culture hits and gendered bits
Daniel Randall
In The Water
Mike Wood
On The Barricades
Pizarro's Sword
Space Cat Rocket Ship
Surveillant Assemblage
TashCamUK FotoPage
The Naked Lunch
The Peace Pipe
The World of the Dynamite Lady

Strangers

Anarchoblogs
Antiwar.com Blog
Arte & Lingua
Barker in Valencia
Blairwatch
Bloggerheads
Blood & Treasure
Bombs and Shields
Boomablog
Born at the Crest of the Empire
Chase me ladies...
Chicken Yoghurt
Craig Murray
Dead Men Left
Direland
Disreputable Lazy Aliens
Empire Notes
Europhobia
Friends of Al Jazeera
Global Guerillas
Guerillas in the Midst
I Blame the Patriachy
Informed Comment
Insultadarity
Janine Booth
Lenin's Tomb
Life of Riley Blog
Media Watch Watch
Neil Shakespeare
NO2ID NewsBlog
One Hump or Two?
Otto's Random Thoughts
Perfect.co.uk
Pitch In For Uzbekistan
Registan.net
Run over by the truth
Solidarity With Iraqi Workers
Shut Up You Fat Whiner!
Sudan: Passion of the Present
Talk Politics
The Anthropik Network
The Daily (Maybe)
The Devil's Kitchen
The Disillusioned
The f-word
The Head Heeb
The Killing Train
The Revenge of Winston Smith
The Socialist Unity Blog
The Wicked Truth
Theory of Power
Things I Don't Have Time For
This (Fresh) Gringo
This Is My Truth
Thumping the Tub
Time The Dreaded Enemy
UK Watch Blog
UK Poli Blogs
underbrella
Under The Same Sun
Uzbekistan.neweurasia.net
What Fresh Hell Is This?
Where is Raed? (RIP)
Who Are You to Accuse Me?
Words and Rocks
Zeropointnine
Z-Net Blog

Neighbours

Asbo Community Space
Defy-ID
Eastside Climate Action
Faslane 365
Freecycle
Indymedia
No Borders
Nottingham Student Peace Movement
Refugee Forum
Stop the War
Sumac Centre
The Demo Project

Ivory Towers

Anarchist Studies Network
Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice
Postanarchism Clearinghouse

Miscellania

Anarchist FAQ
Antiwar.com
Chagos Discussion List
Chagos Support Forums
Electronic Intifada
Future of Iraq Portal
Index of Political Blogs
Indymedia UK
Infoshop
Iraq Occupation Focus
Pledgebank
Refuser Solidarity Network
SchNEWS
Socialist Unity Network
The New Standard
UK Chagos Support Association
UK Watch
Weekly Worker
Wikipedia
WriteToThem.com
Z-Net

The Progressive Blog Alliance

Register here to join the PBA.