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In June 2000 I started blogging at peteashton.com and 10 years later in June 2010 I decided to stop. Blogging here, that is. I started a clean slate over on I Am Pete Ashton and maintain all manner of other web presences which are all listed here along with my contact details.
You probably came here via a Google search or from following a link on some old blog post somewhere. I hope what you find is useful in some way, though do check the publication date - it might be rather old now.
Thanks for your eyeballs.
Pete Ashton
HI Pete.
There was never truer words spoken by a politician than those spoken by Ken. Hoorah!
As you may have noticed, I’ve ‘unretired’ myself and I’m now drawing comics once again. Have bookmarked your blog and will keep in touch. Cheers!
The “Board of Deputies of British Jews” allways seems to pop up doing extremely pointless work to attack people who have done a lot of jewish people over the years. They seem to be only interested in a sort of reactionary political correctness and not the slightest bit interested in things of real importance. They are some planks. There are so many bodies like that who seemingly sit around waiting for some hack to rignt them up for a “shocked” comment.
When I say “done a lot of jewish people” i of course mean “for jewish people” cos that would just be a stupid statement. Damn.
Darryl – I’ve been following your LJ too – nice to see the comics on there! If you want to read this in your “Friends List” or whatever you can use this syndicated account.
It is rather annoying that the context of this has been stripped away to make it more sensational. Ken called Jewish guy a Nazi because he works for an odious company that supported the Nazis and has had a long hate campaign against Ken has been reduced to Ken called jewish guy a Nazi.
It’s the same with those new Conservative party posters saying (paraphrase) “How hard is it to keep a hospital clean?” neglecting to point out how sodding huge a hospital is and how full of people it tends to be.
It’s fascism through editing, stripping away and intellectual debate by reducing the vocabulary. Orwell was right.
So that’s Ken Livingston, former restaurant critic for the Evening Standard. Oh dear.
Ken knows that The Evening Standard are targeting him so he gives them ammunition. Newspapers and politicians? I wouldn’t put my chips in the former or wipe my feet on the latter.
I’ve been following this in the tabloids (there are a lot in the staff room where I’m working at the moment) and have been ever so slightly stunned at how NONE of them mention the Daily Mail / Nazi connection, which seems to me the fucking POINT.
Sigh……