The UK is about as democratic North Korea. The difference is that North Korea does not pretend to be. The UK Parliament is filled up with glorified careerists who are fisted by corporate media moguls and the like.
They will of course deny it but those who are awake know...
The government refuses to act on toxic flame retardants in our bedding and furnishings.
Everything gets buried by Brexit – that, after all, is the point. It’s the great disrupter and the great distractor. Under the cover of chaos, essential public protections are destroyed.
Take the scandal that should be creating...
Boris Johnson's claims that the UK was on a steep learning curve and that they made 'mistakes' because of a lack of knowledge about the virus have been blown apart on social media.
From laypeople to those with expert knowledge the Prime Minister has been shown to be yet again...
Today marks the day the average person has worked for free so far in the year
An estimated 68,100 people in Dorset put in an average of 7 hours a week in unpaid overtime during 2018, according to new TUC South West analysis of official statistics published today (Friday). That’s...
Tamasin Cave, Director at Spinwatch & co-author of A Quiet Word: Lobbying, Crony Capitalism and Broken Politics in Britain, talks to Going Underground host Afshin Rattansi about lobbying.
She says that it is a huge £2bn industry and is a 'tactical investment' for companies and the returns for them...
Laws of discord
In my last article, Why the Left fight, I suggested that the Right are drawn towards slogans and proposals which are so simple and so unsuited to our ultra-complex world as to be stupid.
The recent mini-budget of Liz Truss’s Conservative government is a prime example of this....
UK (blue) vs Japan (red), COVID-19 cases in March. Can you guess which one actually took expert advice from the World Health Organisation?
The next time some useful idiot tries to tell you Johnson's doing a good job, just nail this to their fatuous fucking forehead.
Eddie Snide
In 2020 this makes very depressing viewing. Some may call it ignorance others overt racism but whatever it is no one should be in a position of authority and say what he does. This level of prejudice is ultimately the problem. It is like a festering boil on the...
The spaghetti tree hoax is a famous 3-minute hoax report broadcast on April Fools' Day 1957 by the BBC current affairs programme Panorama. It told a tale of a family in southern Switzerland harvesting spaghetti from the fictitious spaghetti tree, broadcast at a time when this Italian dish was...
