The Apple that Falls far from the Tree
Just as UK PM Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson makes out that his surname is Johnson, despite the surname on his paternal grandfather’s birth certificate being clearly Kemal, so too does Democrat Vice Presidential candidate Kamala Harris make little mention of her élite Tamil Brahmin heritage. Whether re-purposing the original anti police brutality Black Lives […]
Did HSBC & SFO Chief Lisa Osofsky lie to DOJ about Huawei?
How could SFO Chief Lisa Osofksy not have known about HSBC / Huawei’s Iranian business?
Art Auction Fundraiser for The View – A Magazine for Women in Jail #IncarcerationNation
The View has arranged an online art auction and virtual exhibition to raise funds for the second edition of the View Magazine, a magazine for women trapped in the criminal justice system. Here is a podcast about The View: This short video was produced yesterday to help promote the auction. Hopefully it will serve as […]
Rigged Home Affairs Committee, and representation of ‘BAME’ issues in the Guardian
The Guardian does not go out of its way to present itself as a racist paper. But it has to make decisions about who it employs and the coverage it provides. There may be some degrees of unconscious bias going on. But how unconscious really is it? Alan Rusbridger edited the Guardian for many years […]
The Economic Consequences of Pandemic ECB QE
Emergency on Planet Earth Ursula Von Der Leyen has been talking up the Green EU Deal today. PhilanthroVaccinopolists And her mate Melinda Gates was talking up (mandatory?) coronavirus vaccines yesterday. There was a time when vaccine lobbyists could be called out for being too aggressive. More ECB QE Over at the European Central Bank things […]
Saudis add Newcastle United to NHS Babylon Health & London Evening Standard
Middle East snaps up North East ‘Tis well known they like their football in Newcastle. Tino Army — Faustian Pact In January 1996 the club bought flamboyant Colombian striker Faustino Asprilla from Parma. Known as Tino, Asprilla was a showman and one of the most popular players Newcastle ever had. However, despite building up a […]
Systemic Torture of Vulnerable Women in UK Prisons
Sexual Harassment, Psychological Abuse, Self-Harm, Mental Health, & Privatisation Contracts Farah Damji edits a magazine for female prisoners called The View. She granted me an interview yesterday. We spoke about the state of the prison system, specifically for women. The conversation lasted an hour and twenty minutes. The issues she raises are not getting out […]
The Deregulator’s Guide to Mis-Framing Public Health
Deregulation doesn’t stand still. It is an attitude. With many manifestations. It moves. It’s multi-headed. Not faithful to any form. But in as much as you can describe it, it can adhere to communicative principles, for instance: This article appears in the Sun. Pay Fury is efficient signalling. Pay is a short word and Fury […]
The Little One Said : “Reshuffle!”
So the business of running the country resumes, We can resume the national sport — Bending over backwards to accommodate transnational capital Few call out how similar the line the Daily Mail trots out is to Labour’s. Alex Brummer, the Mail’s City Editor, is forever warning about foreign takeovers. So’s Larry Elliott of the Guardian. […]
Dreaming of a Brown Brexit
The Cad Fad Congratulations, Boris Johnson. You lied and cheated your way to the top. But politics is a dirty game and you didn’t create the conflict — just amplified what was already there. It would be unfair to pretend you aren’t a shrewd operator. That your recent partnership with Tory PR Queen Carrie Symonds […]
Paedo Brino ( Breitbart Remix )
British politics is simply dominated by Paedophiles. Twas ever thus. Today’s General Election proves that. Winners by a clear margin were Jeffrey Epstein, Peter Mandelson, Harvey Proctor, Enoch Powell, & arch-enabler Theresa Villiers. Villiers as pointed out here three weeks ago in Gagged in Golders was the Northern Ireland Secretary in 2015 who shut down […]
Inverted Robbers
Today’s Guardian runs with Culture Unstained’s accusations that the Science Museum is misleading the public. The Museum has reallocated its Sackler Family funding. This tricks the public by disguising the extent to which the Museum currently benefits from the US opioid crisis. Many of the Sacklers have stakes in Purdue Pharma. ‘Painkiller’ addiction has resulted […]
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ELECTION POLLS: when the denialism had to stop @Wiki_Ballot Introduction to the 4 Pamphleteers by Roger Lewis ( Porthos) @GrubStreetJorno @Survation @wiki_ballot @financialeyes @DavidGolemXIV @JoeBlob20 #IABATO #TheSlog #GrubStreetJournal ELECTION POLLS: when the denialism had to stop @Wiki_Ballot Introduction to the 4 Pamphleteers by Roger Lewis ( Porthos) @GrubStreetJorno @Survation @wiki_ballot @financialeyes @DavidGolemXIV @JoeBlob20 #IABATO #TheSlog […]