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Tuesday, September 24, 2024
Put all prejudices away and just watch this clip. Then just focus on what was said and not who said it. The outcome is that we focus on the content but not the personality. Instead of the manufactured perception dominating the actual words and their significance take over. Jason Cridland PLEASE SUPPORT...
The Government  is using scare tactics to prevent a judicial review of their decisions to award huge contracts  without due process which have already been criticised by the National Audit Office. The Government  are claiming that they acted lawfully in channeling hundreds of millions or even billions to VIP associates...
These two tweets (inset and below) are, of course, entirely related. If we consider that the mainstream media have barely reported any of the law-breaking, Labour rules-breaking, bullying, compulsive lying, ignoring of our own legal team, mass hypocrisy, authoritarian fascistic internal behaviour, racism, astonishingly bad political instincts and decision...
George Monbiot

Viral lies should be forbidden

Some falsehoods about the pandemic are so dangerous that they should be banned. Why do we value lies more than lives? We know that certain falsehoods kill people. Some of those who believe such claims as “coronavirus doesn’t exist”; “it’s not the virus that makes people ill, but 5G”; or “vaccines...
The right-wing gutter-press exists to reinforce prejudices... not to inform, or enlighten. They are there to anger the sheep, so the sheep will come back tomorrow and buy another copy of the arse-wipe. The journalists who work in these rags are whores... they will say anything for money. Here we...
Deborah Meaden is a British businesswoman and TV personality who ran a multimillion-pound family holiday business, before completing a management buyout, but is now best known for her appearances on the BBC Two business programme Dragons' Den. Here she absolutely destroys the Tory government's communication during the Covid pandemic and their culpability in the dreadful...
I have some experience (12 years) of working within banks who, on behalf of fund managers, trade stocks in global markets but I stress I was very much on the fringes and I would in no way describe myself as an expert. Over this time, I developed the opinion that...
The Fat Satyr has shot his bolt on the subject of Scottish independence. The break-up of the UK has already begun, because of Brexit. The North of Ireland is now a part of the EU and Ireland, and nothing to do with Brexit-land.“ The campaign for another Scottish independence referendum...
Glad to see that the spirit of 'Plucky little Brexit-land' is not dead. Such cheap nationalism is always a joy - especially when Mrs Fatty Patel is telling the sheep that cannot leave these islands for a holiday - or if they do, they will be forced to stay...
The number of times I have seen some hapless Harry making some such comment about Jeremy Corbyn is enough to make your spleen shudder. Pro Brexiteers, who had their brains switched off once Boris Johnson chose to send letter no 2 instead of letter no 1 to his editor,...