At 11:23:15 on Tue, 25 Aug 2009, TM  wrote 
in :

>John Lennon said songs should be like news bulletins.

And this one is nothing like a news bulletin.  It is like a 
politically-inspired polemic, with very little apparent understanding of 
the underlying issues.
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Molly Mockford wrote:
> At 11:23:15 on Tue, 25 Aug 2009, TM  wrote 
> in :
> 
>> John Lennon said songs should be like news bulletins.
> 
> And this one is nothing like a news bulletin.  It is like a 
> politically-inspired polemic, with very little apparent understanding of 
> the underlying issues.

Wait until next week. I was at Holyrood yesterday. They had an emergency 
meeting of the parliament the day before, but decided against taking any 
votes. Our daughter line-manages the reporting teams, and says that next 
week when the parliament is back from recess there is every possibility 
of a censure motion against, or a vote of no confidence in, MacAskill. 
Will be overtime for the parliamentary report team getting every last 
word correct.

Stable door/horse etc but this issue is about to divide the Scottish 
Parliment like nothing before.

Personally, I doubt that Fred Bassett was really responsible, and I 
don't mind the Americans all boycotting whisky as long as it doesn't 
mean I have to put up with cheap supermarket offers of the dead ordinary 
Johnny Walker blends they seem to prefer... keep that, sent the decent 
single malts back!

David

Molly Mockford wrote:
> 
> I can't help wondering whether there will be companion songs written 
> about the Birmingham Six, the Guildford Four and the Maguire Seven.

Or the Wroot Sixty-Six



I'm sorry - most uncalled-for

T

> Maybe so - but the song is not about that, in any way at all.  It is a 
> nasty little revenge fantasy, presumably written out of outrage that 
> compassion should be ever shown, and with a knee-jerk, unquestioning 
> assumption that somebody convicted of a crime must necessarily be
> guilty of that crime.

And the implication in the subject line that it had the approval
of John Peel is bollocks.

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