I've seen plenty of police getting carried away and acting like thugs. We know the police made a million mistakes and shot a innocent man at close range in 2005. Not to mention Harry Stanley and Blair Peach. I know I shouldn't still be shocked, but I am.



The response of the chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation isn't exactly confidence-inspiring either. This from the BBC News website:

Peter Smyth, chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation, said some physical confrontation was inevitable during a large protest.

He told Radio 4's Today programme: "On a day like that, where there are some protesters who are quite clearly hell-bent on causing as much trouble as they can, there is inevitably going to be some physical confrontation."

He added: "Sometimes it isn't clear, as a police officer, who is a protester and who is not.

"I know it's a generalisation but anybody in that part of the town at that time, the assumption would be that they are part of the protest.

"I accept that's perhaps not a clever assumption but it's a natural one."

So if the man had been a protestor rather than a newspaper vendor walking home from work and AWAY from the police, hitting him with a baton and pushing him to the floor, that would have been alright, would it?

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/news/back-problem-forces-tennant-out-of-hamlet-1058574.html

I haven't felt that particular pit of the stomach feeling of disappointment since I was a kid. Play was still good, especially as I've never seen it live on stage, but...

Stolen from drama bomb. I was going to jazz this up with some Yoooo Toobe video action, but I just seem to break my browser when I try to embed video in this journal.

Ten songs you currently love:

1)Right, let's get this one out of the way... Dakota... by the Stereophonics

I know it's hideously uncool to like the Stereophonics, and this song came out ages ago, but it's also perfect for driving down the motorway enroute to Wales in a 'Peugeot 106 MardiGras' with your boyfriend. Which is how I spent last weekend.

2) Back to Black - Amy Winehouse

Yes, I have become a Radio 2 listener. And what of it? This is a classic that I turned away from for too long because I was fed up of the Wino press monster. But it is a classic.

3)Hitten - Those Dancing Days

Soundtracked most of my summer and I'm still not over it yet.

4)Proper Rock - The Chap
If only because I'm still not tired of screaming "CLUBBING!" at the top of my voice.

5)The Killing Moon - Echo and the Bunnymen
This was going to be a major feature of my Halloween set list. Ben told me over the weekend that the director's cut of Donnie Darko doesn't have the opening scene with Donnie riding his bike to the sound of this. What?

6) Digital Love - Alphabeat

Stripped down cover of the Daft Punk tune. I miss the bleeps, but I still love the song.

7) (Crazy for You But) Not That Crazy - The Magnetic Fields
The great thing about the Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs album is that I bought it about two years ago but find myself having a new favourite song from it every couple of months. This is my current favourite.

"I treated you like radium. I treated you like God. You were my glass menagerie Did you not find that odd. I dwelt within and went without and broke my virgin flesh. I performed acts of devotion as if you were Ganesh..."

8) This is How You Spell "HA HA HA We Destroyed The Hopes and Dreams of a Generation of Faux-Romantics" - Los Campesinos!

I'm beginning to wonder if what I love about Los Campesinos! is the fact they make me sing along to lyrics as if I really lived and believed in them in a way that I haven't really done since I was at school.

Straw poll on LC! from me and others for those of you who haven't heard them:

Me: 'FANTASTIC AND SHOUTY'
My friend Liz: "A bit like if Belle and Sebastian imploded with Idlewild"
My friend Craig: "A bit yelpy."
My friend Elroy: "Shit."

9) From Despair to Where - the Manics
Sometimes I do worry about the effect Ben has on my music collection. But this again was a great roadtrip song.

10)Getting Away With It - Electronic
I love it when songs that you loved when you were a kid reappear in your life and you realisethat you were right to love it when you were six or whenever even though you didn't really know what it was, it was just something in the background. This is one of those songs.

One of my closest friends, Tasha, who i've known since I was 16... is getting hitched next year. In Australia! And I'm going to be a bridesmaid!

I meant to blog about this earlier, but I was sworn to secrecy until it was official and had to make myself forget that it was happening.

I be making bread on my day off. Go me.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7612120.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/humber/7610252.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7604866.stm

Ryanair aren't going to go bust are they?

They're too good at getting money out of people and skimping on anything they possibly can to do that, right?

I just really want to have my holiday next week... hence the Aviation Crisis Headlines making me slightly paranoid.

I can't get this song out of my head. CLUBBING!