I cycled past SOAS yesterday morning and realised that lecturers are striking due to changes in their pension terms. There may have been some mention of this in the mainstream media but but it wasn’t particularly prominent. The solidarity between…
Sleepwalking into Surveillance Capitalism
Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab defended the former Attorney General Geoffrey Cox on the radio today. Cox has been earning top dollar working for the Cayman Islands. Advising on them on legal matters that only people like him know about.…
Xi Jinping expected to 'run' for third term as President of China
Does anyone actually believe Mark Carney when he says he has $100 trillion to deploy on Net Zero?
prepare to learn something about the history of African decolonisation
cop26 promises are built on green slavery
What is more worrying? His wife's death, secretly funded GM Food lobbying, or the way he constantly tries to shift the blame?
Will UK Government's failure to inspire trust in UK farmers lead to post-Brexit food shortages?
The Guardian attempts to connect with the great unwashed - but you can't work for two men
Ronald Reagan had the Mujahideen over to the White House in the early 80s
On the attribution & ascription of names, characteristics, causes, & values.
Parliament has just mandated vaccines for all staff in UK Care Homes and vaccine apartheid is being implemented in France
Vinca Petersen I walked past photographer Vinca Petersen‘s exhibition at EDEL ASSANTI on Mortimer Street in London yesterday. Some of the images on display are taken from the 90s Teknival Scene and Reclaim the Streets. Edel Assanti organises photography exhibitions…
Nigel Boardman, who Boris Johnson handpicked to run the post-Greensill review of high level corrupt appointments, is also a trustee and should now resign from both positions
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Jordan Ellenberg wrote the bestseller: How not to be Wrong back in 2014. Here he is in conversation with Weapons of Math Destruction writer Cathy O’Neil
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This one goes out to the never edit crew
This one goes out to the never edit crew
I love the way these guys preach borderless globalism one day and merciless flag-waving the next. Gaslighting-as-a-service In 2000 Rupert Murdoch hosted a discussion on the Global Role of the UnitedStates in the 21st Century. The main speaker was the…
G7 Tax Deal maintains illicit corporate financial flow
Chancellor's family directly benefit from mini India Trade Deal
The changing nature of what does and doesn't count as corrupt
A stalking register needs proper monitoring of whoever is on the list
Uk adopts Magnitsky "anti-corruption" Rules to steal money from smaller countries.
Government Reply to Committee on Standards in Public Life Few will read the Government’s reply to the Committee on Standards in Public Life
The Conservative Lord Jo Johnson as been voting in favour of the Government's Domestic Abuse Bill and against a #StalkingRegister.
Billionaire hired PM's little bro immediately after ordering Boris to evade tax
From Driverless Crash to New German Green Leader
Westminster has no appetite for an independent candidate in Hartlepool
Rise of the Working Class Shareholder?
Synthetic Biology is the Answer I’m no scientist. But I think science is important. The open discussion of science is crucial in a free society. A matter of life and death. The society which does not permit open discussion of…
Why England Is Conservative by Alfred Austin Because of our dear Mother, the fair Past,On whom twin Hope and Memory safely lean,And from whose fostering wisdom none shall weanTheir love and faith, while love and faith shall last:Mother of happy…
Andrew Bailey is referred to in this FT piece as though he has some sort of track record preventing fraud. He doesn’t. For some reason, “comments have not been enabled for this article” Bailey was asked about lessons learned from…
Woke This Way The Times of London tends to issue anti-woke UK Government propaganda from behind a paywall. A paywall that is thankfully not impossible to bypass. In today’s business section is the following offering: It is interesting to see…
A is for Apple, Anarchism, & Anachronism Luddites I miss the Luddites. Not the ones up in Nottinghamshire that broke frames. I mean the ones from a few years ago who were scientists against technocracy. Dave King ran the group.…
The Government pays Deloitte to tell them how to tell the world that it is ok for the Government to pay Deloitte.
“It is an unprecedented and controversial step. But ministers should press ahead” – The TImes Over the course of eight paragraphs today’s Times argues that the jab should be mandatory for all care workers. It goes a little something like…
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Standing Next to a Mountain UK Government in Coal U-Turn Last night Robert Jenrick, the communities secretary, U-Turned and blocked the application for the deep coalmine near Whitehaven in Cumbria. Fracking was recently blocked in the UK, despite the government…
The boys and girls over at the State Department / Bloomberg must think the public believe anything. Their latest offering suggests the UK / US axis wants to place sanctions on Russia. This is due to chemical weapons usage and…
The Times has just published a story about the personal life of an academic who was held hostage in Iran for three years. I see no news value in it whatsoever. What possesses them to publish a story that simply…
A row is brewing over the Government’s apparent preference to appoint the notorious right wing newspaper editor Paul Dacre as Head of Broadcast Regulator Ofcom, with powers to police Independent & Social Media, and special exemptions for newspapers.
Critics decry naked political appointment of editor who has arguably done more to polarise political discourse than anyone except Nigel Farage
Were every Frenchman who claims to have been in the resistance be telling truth there’d have been no room for Nazis.
Bee-Killing Brexit Pesticide Wu Tang Killer Bees UK Government Launches Genetic Engineering Consultation
Right wing investigative reporter James Ball has attacked Julian Assange once again. This time in the Sunday Times. But is there anything new in his article?
Alok Sharma to run COP26 Great Reset Build Back Better Scam
We all know the press is able to play down the significance of one scandal and play up the significance of another.
