Comments for The North Briton

Comment on One line reviews by AM

AM — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 10:56:25 +0000

Coming soon - Ant Macari went to liverpool and all he got was this lousy biennale.

Comment on Status Update: The North Briton has never been so grateful for the Cheviot rain shadow effect by NBzee

NBzee — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:16:37 +0000

It’s the new sportcoat

Comment on Status Update: The North Briton has never been so grateful for the Cheviot rain shadow effect by grace the collie

grace the collie — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:20:27 +0000

You seem to be turning in to a geography teacher.

Comment on Less is Gormley by Arthur Wragg

Arthur Wragg — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:35:06 +0000

Gormley’s mouth connects with his arse

Comment on Less is Gormley by DavidNcl

DavidNcl — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:04:09 +0000

It’s hard to know what to say in response to this kind of clueless drivel from Gormley.

In the spirit of Clarkson; I propose that he be striped of the fruits of capitalism, tied to the front of an SUV and driven around the northern wastes for many days - until he is, err, not alive.

Comment on A new name for St. James’ Park by grace the collie

grace the collie — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:03:47 +0000

When Henry Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973, the distinguished musical satirist Tom Lehrer decided that he could no longer perform. “It was at that moment that satire died,” says Lehrer, “There was nothing more to say after that.”

Comment on Deep in NewcastleGateshead’s New Labour Quarter: by DavidNcl

DavidNcl — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:26:59 +0000

It’s not an art gallery.

All “art” funded by looted money stolen from workers by states can be dismissed as a) illegitimate and b) serving the aims of the ruling elite of that state. Typically its function is to manufacture a hegemonic discourse for a ruling elite.

Which is precisely why Pete dismisses you as not understanding the irony* of it. Its function is to be not “understood” or “got” by those outside the ruling elite. Of course, in order for it to have this function (of establishing a kind of thought crime) it has to be inherently “un-gettable” and thus getting of it is a largely symbolic or ritualistic act—which may well be extremely arduous and convoluted rituals such as having one’s rational thought processes damaged by state “intellectuals” in a state “university”.

Comment on Deep in NewcastleGateshead’s New Labour Quarter: by Arthur Wragg

Arthur Wragg — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:31:25 +0000

I can imagine the meeting of curators when they decided on using that image. The drivel, the irony, the wankspeak.

Alessandro is he still there? It has him written all over it and that Canadian with the homemade pants.

Comment on Deep in NewcastleGateshead’s New Labour Quarter: by Peter Doroschenko

Peter Doroschenko — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:16:20 +0000

Hmmm, very far from free actually:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/northeast/series8/week5.shtml

Dumb prole.

Comment on Deep in NewcastleGateshead’s New Labour Quarter: by Pete

Pete — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:48:07 +0000

Good points everybody! I mean, what where those left-wing Guardianistas thinking, bring the largest free contemporary gallery to the cultural vacuum of Gateshead? Those dumb proles would never get irony!