Your Sinclair: It's Back! (In a funky skillo sort of a way)

Live Publishing, publishers of the ace Retro Gamer magazine, have done possibly the best thing any magazine could ever do ever. Ever!

Given my (admittedly limited) link to the magazine - I was there at the very end, from 1992 to the summer of 1993 - it would've been nice to have been told it was happening. But to be honest, that's just my normally understated ego trying to climb out; I was a rubbish 18 year old seduced by the glamour of being published in my favourite magazine and being paid for it. My ego got placated again with Lego Street Preachers in 1999 and 2000 and was again put to bed - if I'm working in seven year cycles then 2007-08 will be when I next have limited success!

Anyway, I'm going to get out my YS t-shirt and badges and enjoy the single greatest magazine ever, and the source of my name being in Wikipedia as well. Hurrah!

Is Kilroy the new Hitler?

Anyone with digital satelite TV in the UK will doubtless have seen many documentaries - or at least the titles of them on the EPG - about Nazis. They're the most popular subject for documentaries for some reason. When there's nothing on we sometimes get stuck watching one whilst channel hopping, and occasionally they're quite interesting.

One the other day followed Hitler from soldier in World War One through to being the Fuhrer. What I didn't know was that Hitler was sent into the German Workers Party to infiltrate them by the Bavarian Reichswehr in 1919. He wanted to set up his own political party, but his superiors made him join the existing nationalist party. Hitler took control and changed its name to the National Socialist German Workers Party, better known as the Nazis, in 1920; his quick rise to power undoubtedly down to his reported charisma.

Last week, right-wing xenophobe Robert Kilroy-Silk (MEP) publicly stated that he should be the leader of the UK Independence Party. Like Hitler, he's only been a member of his party for a short period, and like Hitler he's reportedly charismatic. (I've always found him an arrogant cock, myself.) Is he trying to emulate Hitler? I'll let you make up your own minds. Here's some bullet points, and I apologise in advance for putting Hitler in the present tense...

Both blame outside/foreign forces for the state of the country in which they live.

Both are hypocrites. Hitler wasn't particularly Aryan, was he? And Kilroy hates the European Union so much that having to draw that huge MEP wage and guaranteed pension must be incredibly traumatic.

Both have dodgy hair.

Both like the sound of their own voices.

Both have ideas above their station.

Links

Kilroy attacks 'back-door' Ukip leader poll (The Guardian)
Wikipedia entry on Hitler
Wikipedia entry on Kilroy-Silk - worth noting is that he's father to a convicted fraudster and an adulterer with a bastard son =)
UK Independence.org Unofficial Kilroy-baiting website =)