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Sunday, May 12, 2024
With about as much wit and charm as a dog with dysentery, Jordan Peterson is invited on by another attention seeking, spoilt child to talk about a tweet. It is the norm for people who have as much to contribute to epistemology as George Bush Jr. sitting in a...
So on my 2nd trip in today returning to Shaftesbury, on the buses, I pull in at Stourpaine at the rather inviting White Horse pub - adorned in winter sunshine under blue skies in the refreshingly crisp chilled misted air - with all the outside tables set out for...
GB Spews presenter Darren Grimes has a long record of being controversial about other people's identities. Having failed to graduate from university, he launched into a career of offending people. Here are six examples of his behaviour: Electoral Commission Fine: In 2018, Grimes was fined £20,000 by the Electoral Commission for...
While this might sound like just a fandom post for Taylor Swift, it’s not. It’s a remark about how social media sways public opinion and how the patriarchy is still alive and well in American and western society today. If you’re not listening to Taylor, you cannot objectively claim a lack...
It is one of those times when there is absolutely no sympathy for either party. Matthew Hancock and Isabel Oakeshott are both rancid. I would not trust either of them to tell me if it was day or night let alone what this monstrous Tory party get up to...
Who is Jackie Walker? Jacqueline Walker, born on April 10, 1954, is a British political activist and writer with a diverse background. She has worked as a teacher and an anti-racism trainer, and she is the author of a family memoir titled "Pilgrim State." Additionally, Walker has co-written and performed...
While reincarnation isn’t believed in by all Buddhists, it’s a harmless enough widely held misconception. Buddhists, however, could not welcome current Home Secretary Suella Braverman to their number. Ultimately, the shared understanding of the belief is that you harm no one; even if she were on the left of...
How things have changed since Donald Trump came and went as US president. Until then, I was able to identify myself as firmly on the progressive left. Now – with the Covid pandemic only reinforcing the post-Trump trauma – I find myself in some weird no-man’s land, trapped and...
Former Wirral Labour Councillor Jo Bird, and the Wirral’s only Jewish councillor, was expelled from the Labour Party in November 2021 for speaking at a Labour Against the Witchhunt (LAW) meeting in 2018 and signing a petition in 2020. Following this week’s local election Ms Bird has regained her seat...
I know I shouldn’t have done this, but I am 83 years old and I was in the McDonald’s drive-through this morning and the young lady behind me leaned on her horn and started mouthing something because I was taking too long to place my order. So when I...