Hats off to fullfact.org for their tireless exposure of the lies in the gutter press about there being 120,000 ‘problem’ families in the UK. By gutter press, I’m referring of course to The Sun, The Daily Mail, The Guardian, The Daily Star, The Telegraph, The Independent, The Daily Express,...
Boscombe, Bridport, Sherborne and Wimborne branches of Lloyds bank have been sold to the CO-OP bank. All customers will now become Co-op account holders. The CO-OP have also bought all Cheltenham & Gloucester branches including Bournemouth, Dorchester, Gillingham, Poole and Sherborne. This follows the part nationalisation of Lloyds in 2009...
Dan Hind is the author of two books, The Threat to Reason and The Return of the Public. His e-book, Maximum Republic will be published later this month. Journalists and their editors have an unusual privilege. As brokers of public speech they largely determine how the world...
I am not a big fan of Westminster or of Trump but I salute John Bercow for standing up to the reptile that is Donald. Watch as the Tories sit motionless whilst the rest of those present applaud. Always the litmus test for the level of narcissism and destructiveness....
With all the nonsense being spewed by the mainstream media about immigration I considered and actively pursued the strange event of publishing some facts. I appreciate that for some of you reality is a bit scary and boring but living a lie does not make a great epitaph. Even The...
A tribute to Celia Hollingworth who died in Greece last month: This is truly awful and tragic news. More so for any who knew Celia. It's difficult to read this news account. Celia was a lifelong socialist. Totally incorruptible and a fighter for the oppressed. She was also a...
This week, a British youth named Azhar Ahmed was found guilty of the crime of causing offence. Following the massacre of Afghans by, according to the eye witnesses, a group of US soldiers, the young Bradford man in question did what we all do occasionally and wrote a stupid...
Dead snake could be largest ever!
Returning to the United States in an election year, I am struck by the silence. I have covered four presidential campaigns, starting with 1968; I was with Robert Kennedy when he was shot and I saw his assassin, preparing to kill him. It was a baptism in the American...
Local officials and activists in Spain staged Robin Hood-style supermarket sweeps in what they say are symbolic gestures to confront the crisis affecting families in the recession-hit country suffering the effects of austerity measures. On Tuesday, mayor of the municipality of Marinaleda in Andalusia, Juan Manuel Sánchez Gordillo, joined...
