Pirate Hordes Take Over Europe

David Cerny, artist of the controversial EU sculpture Entropa, has dismantled the artwork ahead of the deadline in protest at the new government in the Czech Republic.

Cerny has also made it clear he did not support the new government of Prime Minister Jan Fischer, because it included many former communists.

"I don't want to support them, they do not deserve to lead the European Union, this is as if a pirate horde has taken over Europe", Cerny said.

Gordon Brown ploughs on with his compulsory volunteering for young people: Youth Community Service. All part of the hectoring, self-righteous bossiness we've come to expect of the Spawn and his familiars. I note that these young people are only good enough to be groomed as servers and not as leaders, so no Common Purpose for them, then.

Brown talks about young people being able to 'make a difference'. Well, he could make a real difference by fucking off. It's a pity we'll have to wait till the election before we can defenestrate the bastard.

Every Big Brother Child Training Matters Reich Plan Agency

My grandson brought home a letter from his primary school advertising the services (free and confidential) of a Parent Support Adviser, who is available to help anything from eating habits to behaviour problems.

Sounds nice and caring, but being middle-aged and cynical (particularly after a decade of New Labour control-freakery) I immediately accessed the interweb and found Parent Support Advisers are part of a new quango, the Training and Development Agency. It's all part of New Labour's 'Every Child Matters' million-year Big Brother Reich plan, of course. Their job is...oh well, go and read about it yourself, I can't be bothered repeating the stuff.

I was amused to see a link on the page - 'Cutting through red tape'. No comment is needed, really.

In addition, another non-elected Labour minister, one Baroness Vadera, talked about seeing the 'green shoots' of recovery. A bit previous, young lady, considering the recession proper hasn't started yet (certainly not according to the BBC, who still insist on talking about 'the Downturn'). Also a bit too reminiscent for us oldies of Normam Lamont's shifty boast along the same lines way back in predigital times.

As for the Czech EU artwork, Entropa: is the hoax a hoax? Instead of being by 27 artists it's actually by one bloke, David Czerny, the organiser. That's proper art by a proper artist.

Czech Art Attack Provokes EU

Czech sculpture provokes EU despots: Entropa. They don't like it up 'em.

Here's a link to the Czech's own EU2009 website with a link to the catalogue.