Well said!! The headline of your piece `Fuck the Wedding` really made me laugh!! What is less funny however is the way that the really seriuos issues of world poverty, the after effects of the tsunami, the awful suffering in Iraq etc. have been knocked off the news agenda by this piece of irrelevance. Good luck on your demo!!! I'd like to be there but I live 400 miles away in thta other Capital, Edinburgh. Paul.

Grow up and get a life. Storm the castle my arse, you're pathetic.

it's right that a royal marriage will displace all the news that matters. why is that? because sad little nationalists don't want to know about what's going on elsewhere, it ruins their world view. anyone still doubting the complicity of the media and the conservative state is just making noise. the argument is over. taking sides in a national sense is a destructive luxury enjoyed by people happy to see the worst costs exported to other people far away whilst bringing other costs down on themselves and their neighbours. it's sad that people are so determined to cling to tradition in the face of such misery.

Well the Independent featured ALL the other imposrtant news on it's front cover today instead of showing C and C.

So I bought it.

What a load of depressing, right-on leftie drivel.

Reminds me why I dumped it and now read The Mail in the morning.

Why? becuase I want a laugh. Not be depressed and downed.... like the left wants you to be.

Ex leftie,

it's not easy to know if you were being serious or not in your remarks above.

You thought today's Independent headlines were "depressing right-on leftie drivel"? Was the story about increased attacks on Jews in Britain drivel? Did you find the story about the rise in the FTSE index too left-wing? Was the one about interest rates holding at present levels depressing? The pieces on the successful Tate Gallery exhibition and the Football Association betting scandal?

The opinion columns included one Tory, a guy from the Labour NEC, someone having a go at Alistair Campbell and someone talking queueing in Britain. You found that too left-wing? Well, it's kinda brave of you to come over to Indymedia...

"Reminds me why I dumped it and now read The Mail in the morning. Why? becuase I want a laugh."

Please tell me this is a joke. You read the Daily Mail because it gives you a lift? Why do you think the paper has been dubbed the Daily Moan? I must have missed the last happy Mail headline.

"depressed and downed.... like the left wants you to be."

I'm sorry you have come to the view that the people all over the world who strive for human rights, workers' rights, to protect the environment etc. etc. sometimes at risk to their personal freedom and lives only do it out of a psychological desire to feel depressed. But you aren't right.

There's plenty of things the left has wrong with it without having to just make them up and taking a cheap shot at large numbers of truly courageous and decent people.

Red Republican,

i salute your anti-monarchical stance. It's always welcome in this country to see someone "come out" as a Republican. But is it really true that "There has to be some opposition to the Royal wedding"? Why?

The wedding itself isn't warping British democracy (such as it is) or oppressing us, and giving it this attention seems to violate one of the planks of the case against the monarchy - that the lives and loves of the Windsor aren't the business of the rest of us, they should be a family like any other.

The Queen opening parliament, or some member of the Royal Family gracing the arms industry or foreign dictatorships (as they do rather often) is a good time for a pro-democracy action. But if these people want to get hitched, i don't see that the left needs to make it an issue.

The mind-numbing, spirit-crushing media coverage is, however, another matter.

>>But if these people want to get hitched, i don't see that the left needs to make it an issue.


the point is the wedding will be used to reinforce shaky nationalism just before a general election. who told charles to tie the knot on the 8 april? downing street looking to get some flag waving going in the press in the run up to polling day so the anti labour / anti war protest doesn't get heard. not complicated.

it will be easy to get sucked into diversion by getting wound up by all the news reports. this is +involvement+ in their news agenda and it is meant to channel your energies away from the real issues. it is almost as destructive as being an enthusiastic flag waver. charles and camilla? a total irrelevance to be studiously ignored. just turn the page, change the channel, and on with the job.

What a sad and pathetic bunch of whinging Poms you are! Get a life why don't you all!