A-T-3 142 Gary Byrd & The G.B.E. - The Crown
Sir Keir Starmer was talking to the BBC Radio 4's Today programme yesterday morning. The interviewer Justin Webb completes the circle jerk over prudence by quoting The Times 'at a time when we are being so careful about spending commitments...' setting Sir Keir Starmer up to announce his fucking over of students and people who don't want to amass massive debt to get an education
When I heard this my first thought was the public are paying £100million for a coronation and a further £300million to renovate the royal residences, where's the care in that?
The interview was done on the same day BP announced £4bn ($5bn) profits for the first three months of 2023... this is why I prefer not to use 'cost of living crisis' but 'mega-profit crisis' and 'greedflation'
A report in the FT headlined Will the extraordinary boom in luxury goods ever end? https://www.ft.com/content/72208629-1213-4ece-b405-1e2c21c08868 caught people's attention last week as billionaires saw their incomes treble over the pandemic, with nothing to spend it on, and the gap between the ultra-rich and the rest of us (including some pretty well off people) widening
On the Today programme interview Sir Keir Starmer defends continuing the tories implementation of trickle down economics while attacking trickle down economics' failure under the tories. Sir Keir Starmer is doing his best to look less like a government in waiting and more the tories' b team
The photo of the 1m (it doesn't say what denomination it is, lets call it fantasy bucks) I took last week is brilliantly insightful. With the coronation comes how Britain sees its future. Will the value of the pound tank so badly our currency will be more like Japan's where notes begin at a thousand fantasy bucks? The Bank of England has been abolished and replaced with The Bank Of Eternity because this Britain is a fantasy. Funnily enough the shop that had these on display in the window were very pro-Brexit, all brexiteers wanted their sovereignty so they could spunk it on the crown, the shop staff didn't bother with the 'we'll have more money for the NHS,' they were open about having a problem with foreigners... nasty nasty shameful people with horrible values
There's an episode of Melvin Bragg's In Our Time on the subject of Monarchy which discusses how it is far from eternal https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00545k6
The Crown Motown’s first rap record written and performed by rapping radio DJ Gary Byrd and Stevie Wonder
When queen elizabeth 2 died I watched a round table with African academics. Speaking on behalf of Africans they were saying they weren't opposed to to monarchy, there are kings and queens in Africa, monarchy has history covering millennia on the continent. New countries becoming independent from colonial rule have considered reinstating or introducing a monarchy
The sleeve of The Crown by Gary Byrd has him represented as a teacher, Bryd refers to himself a teacher in the rap. Black history is schools is major struggle, it's inadequate in the UK, it's a battle ground in he US, misunderstood Critical Race Theory is one of the fronts currently under attack
The lyrics of The Crown are a bit of a mess, there are references to Alex Haley's book Roots: The Saga of an American Family. Byrd also says he's not talking about just black people wearing crowns but literally 'everyone' including you and I. This is quaintly American and disregards what monarchy actually means. It's a really weird liberal idea that everyone be given the right to be a monarch, it's not how monarchy works, in a way it's how anarchy works if we ignore the finer points. I suppose it's an adaption of the American dream? Reading about kings and queens and imagining yourself in their positions has a lot of problems
Christian introduced me to this record and gave me his spare copy in the 1990s, thanks Christian
