Comments on: The Royal Albert Hall, Miss World and the Angry Brigade in 1970

By: David Mingay

David Mingay — Sun, 24 May 2020 11:03:28 +0000

I watched the film Misbehaviour last night, so I found this very interesting indeed. There were one or two details the film left out, so the extra info here was a good addition. I do wish we’d bring back collective action, rather than thinking that tapping away on a keyboard in our bedrooms will change anything. Thank you.

By: Miss World « Shrine of Dreams

Miss World « Shrine of Dreams — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 00:36:17 +0000

[...] Another Nickel in the Machine has a fine account of the 1970 protest with lots of video. [...]

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Miss Mundo 2013 es: Miss Filipinas. — Sat, 28 Sep 2013 14:30:31 +0000

[...] http://www.nickelinthemachine.com/2010/07/the-royal-albert-hall-miss-world-and-the-angry-brigade-in-… [...]

By: Muhlmann

Muhlmann — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 19:13:35 +0000

Was there actually any bombings in London in 1968? and if what I heard was true about Stuart Christie planting a bomb at the Spanish embassy in 1968, how come thjis is not listed in any of the other sites?

By: chip butty

chip butty — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 02:56:56 +0000

I knew Jim Greenfield of the Angry Brigade in the ’80s after he left prison. He was a working class fella from Warrington who had managed to get to Oxford University, but left when he got into politics. I knew him cos his partner was a girl I knew. Have to say, as far as I knew him, he was a pretty unpleasant bloke.

He hadn’t learned much from the failure of the Angry Brigade either. In the mid-80s he & his partner moved to Greece and were doing a lot of cocaine. He hatched some hare-brained plot involving the IRA, Lebanese dope dealers and dissident Israeli Mossad agents, it was a sort of guns for dope idea. Needless to say, as with the Angry Brigade, it all came to nothing and he was nicked again.

As he had failed with a plot involving some rather dangerous organisations and considering his previous record he was looking at a very long spell inside, so he turned informer. He got sentenced to six years in 1987 and he spent it all in isolation so none of the groups could get at him. After he left prison he got back with his partner, the girl I knew, and they now live a quiet life under an assumed name in an English provincial town.

By: social science sites of the week

social science sites of the week — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:57:54 +0000

[...] Miss America Protests, 1968 and 1969 Duke University Digital Library collection provides free access to materials, relating to feminists protests again the Miss America beauty show in 1968/1969. See photographs, leaflets, private papers from organisers and eye witness accounts of this key event In US gender history. See pictures and YouTube accounts of the 1970 Miss World protests [...]

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 17:08:12 +0000

I really enjoyed this nostalgic mind-trip back to more pleasant era until you just had to go & spoil it with that quite unwarranted & unplesant attack on Lionel Blair & that nice collection of well-dressed young men with him ( and why STILL no knighthood forthcoming one wonders…oh well perhaps this year ). One really sees far too few orange polyester dress shirts with frilled cuff detail these days.

By: Jim Pennington

Jim Pennington — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 14:34:09 +0000

ref the ‘dramatic half-face’… Ed Barker was certainly a random interventionist and if you asked one of his Largactylites they’d say “Dat lookz like der bullet hole pock-markz, Dutch”

By: Stuart Christie

Stuart Christie — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 19:23:12 +0000

Hi, For those of you who are interested in the period you can read a bit more about the people, politics and mood of the years 1967 — 1975 in ‘Edward Heath Made Me Angry’ …

http://issuu.com/skateraw/docs/edheathvol3/10

By: Grant

Grant — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 13:09:38 +0000

Hi Great stuff, thanks for putting this all together.
I’m equally fascinated by the “Dramatic Half-Face” illustration in IT. Have you received any responses on this? I found this similar device used in a 1991 magazine about testing beauty products. . . http://bit.ly/d2qZka . . .But I’m really interested in how the AB was using it under situationist critique.