The Emperor’s New Clothes

Posted on March 31 2015

I am interviewed in this new film:

More details here:

I should add, I am only responsible for my bit(s), but I am looking forward to it.

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  1. Sue Queef says:
    March 31 2015 at 1:12 pm

    Thanks for that “heads up” Richard – and I for one will definitely be looking out for it.
    In my younger days as an Anarchist in Calder Vale, Yorkshire we were very much into what we called agip-prop. You never see it now, since the Thatcher Repression cast its long shadow over our radical dreams.
    Who’d have thought that a Chartered Accountant would be picking up our flag and leading the charge to defend the state. More power to your fountain pen!

  2. Mark Crown says:
    March 31 2015 at 9:58 pm

    Russell Brand ……………..oh dear…………

    Oh well, if this film does work where

    Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2006)

    Capitalism: A love Story (2009)

    Inside Job (2010)

    The Shock Doctrine (2010)

    The Flaw (2012)

    Inequality for All (2013)

    ………….did not, then I suppose it will have to do (not to mention ‘Princes of the Yen’ and ‘The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse’).

    All these informative documentaries are widely available online. When I watched Channel 4 News the other night, some of the respondents in a pub were saying that they wanted to be ‘TOLD’ the truth. Well I’m sorry, but sitting on your bum, twittering and face booking away your time will not get you closer to the truth of what is happening to your future and your children’s future.

    Go and find out yourself or be damned is what I would say.

    Never before have we seen such quality analysis of what is wrong with our capitalist system just side lined and ignored by the majority and mainstream media. It’s like feeding caviar to pigs.

    No doubt I and a few others will get dragged down into the mire by the hordes of ignorance – but at least when I go down, I’ll know who fired the bullets. That’s about the only consolation for me that I can anticipate. So many lies have been inducted by the electorate.

    The best outcome for me for this election? A Labour party in coalition with the SNP, Plaid Cymru and the Greens who are forced into a progressive agenda that renounces the Blair effect once and for all.

    Good luck with the film and I shall no doubt add it to my collection.

    • Richard Murphy says:
      April 1 2015 at 6:47 am

      My contribution was to be filmed for a couple of hours

      If two minutes makes the screen I will be amazed

      • Mark Crown says:
        April 1 2015 at 12:49 pm

        Well, you’d better nip out and buy yourself a video capable camera of some kind and do it yourself Richard. I think that would be a good idea. The entertainment industry is not always the best presenter of such complex ideas to the public.

        We live in very anti-intellectual times.

    • Roy Partridge says:
      April 1 2015 at 7:45 pm

      I think you might be surprised by the film. While Brand is a ‘celebrity’ he has immersed himself in a variety of ‘left wing’ causes over the last year. I am not a ‘fan’ of his, never paid much attention to him, but he has impressed me with his willingness to get involved and use his ‘status’ to assist, for example, the Focus E15 Mums. And he has a huge following so this film is likely to be seen by many more people than other documentaries