Passing Thought For This Sunday Morning

Why is it that Nick Cohen chooses to use a byline picture on his blog that looks like it dates from a few years back?

From reading about the the launch of the Euston Manifesto on the net, and seeing various pictures of the platform at the launch meeting for the EM that recently took place in London, it does look like his current pic dates from the days when Beckham was best known as "that footballer dating the one at the back in the Spice Girls" and Chelski were Chelsea, everyone's second team because we loved their players with their continental flair, the good natured warmth and hands across the terrace camraderie of their fans and their avuncular Chairman who was like the cuddly uncle from the old black and white Hollywood movies that we all wished we had in our lives.

I mean, if Nick can do it, I think that should be the green light for all us lesser bloggers to follow suit in posting pics that put us in our best possible light. I'm seriously considering using the following pic in future as my photo byline for this blog. Friends, family and household pets will willingly testify that I've hardly aged at all since this photograph was taken eighteenth months ago.

Perhaps I'm being too harsh on Mr. Cohen. With his heavy journalistic workload of writing yet another 1500 word op-ed piece on why Respect/SWP are a shower of wankers, it is maybe the case that he has been too snowed under to update his website. So, with that in mind, I've forwarded the following pic of him to him that I stumbled across on the net whilst doing in-depth research for a 20,000 word piece that I'm currently writing on the life and times of Harry Hamlin, that will be included in the Socialist Standard in its forthcoming 'Steven Bochco and His Contribution to Proletarian Culture' Special Issue.

(Reserve your copy at your local newstands now.)