The party dislikes labels, yet the term "mildly Islamist" suits it, as does "conservative".
New Labour figures criticise the media for clinging to the Blairite and Brownite labels, yet these camps still pursue their personality feuds, despite their small differences.
The prints had just been hung, and not all of them had labels yet, but even a newcomer to Rego's work would have no trouble identifying her magical and decadent Nursery Rhyme series, produced in 1989.
O'Connor has publicly disavowed that term (as she has disavowed most labels), yet here she insists upon herself, broadcasting her flaws and devastations, demanding they be properly reckoned with.
"I then found the band's Web site and e-mailed them to ask if they'd been signed by any labels yet, and, of course, they thought somebody was playing a joke on them," recalled Mr. Gurewitz, who is worshiped by punk fans for starting the 1980's archetypal hard-core band Bad Religion.
"Why wait six months to sell your products when you've just spent millions of pounds creating a big hullabaloo?" Hall points out that the whole industry has not jumped on the bandwagon, with the major Italian and French labels yet to get involved.
