Running dogs of Maggie O'Kaneist-Feargal Keaneism
Extraordinary how someone like Jonathan Littell can write something as subtle as The Kindly Ones and then turn out the most crude liberal-interventionist propaganda. He worked for Action Contre la Faim in Congo in the '90s - the only charity, along with MSF, to stay in the Goma camps after all the others withdrew aid they knew was going straight to the génocidaires. Linda Polman writes brilliantly about these kind of painfully well-meaning journos that get 4x4'd around the sights - the useful idiots of the NGO-Military complex.
Nicknamed Msam’iyas’ - women who sing at weddings -
because they turn popular melodies into protest songs, the USMA fans chant: “Bouteflika is in love with his throne, he wants another term."..."Our songs focus on current events, on politics and the economy. We sing about politicians, about security, about terrorist attacks. We criticise the current government as well as the extremists of the Islamic Salvation Front. We also criticise the high cost of living in Algeria and the privileges enjoyed by the country’s elite, who send their children abroad to study while so many young Algerians are unemployed and live in poverty,...I think that the authorities don't actually have a problem with our chants: if we get our anger out inside the stadium, then that’s it, we don’t cause any trouble outside," Amine T. said.
I, Partridge is a hymn to English bathos
perhaps the greatest such since the Grossmiths' Diary of a Nobody. Not that I can think of the names of any others. But there must have been some in the intervening 119 years and some of them will have been very good and I, Partridge is, I'm sure, better or I would have been able to remember them.
