Lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living

What war?

The video for Untouchable shows Girls Aloud descending through the atmosphere producing bright contrails reminiscent of white phosphorous. When I thought, while watching the new Girls Aloud video, “I wasn’t expecting that white phosphorous imagery,” I filed it away as the sort of trivial and rather bad taste joke twitter is made for. But the more I thought about it, the more odd it seemed. Is it a kind of return of the repressed, the appearence, out of context, of the images of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars that don’t appear in the media? Read moreā†“