If you are "up on the technology news" (read as - geeky with too much time on your hands) you'll know that Facebook Pages have a "fashionable new look". Effectively what they've done is make all of the Reckless General pages look like personal profiles, with status updates and the Wall right in your face. It all sounds very interesting, and I expect that'll be my day gone tomorrow figuring out how to work it all.

If you managed to make it to the RGR launch gig last Friday; thank you so much for making it a very special night for all of us, it meant a lot to see that level of support for...

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As nobody else seems to be making use of the site’s blogging capabilities, I’m afraid you’ve got me again.

After a very successful launch night, I thought it was about time I told you a little bit about the name. We often get asked “Why have you named yourself after one of the bloodiest regimes in history?”, or “are you communists?” I wonder if Franz Ferdinand got the same reprimanding when they started out...

Anyway, please note that we are “The Soviets”, not “The KGB”, or “The USSR”;


In St Petersburg, 1905, amidst the violence of the Russian Revolution, meetings were held by...

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