Comment is Banned

Comment is Banned They used to say on the Guardian website that comment is free. But now it’s more a case of Comment is banned.  Why?  In the Guardian opinion section, of the 20 main articles, only 3 have a…

Body Snatch Brexit

It’s only a year since I said I was dreaming of a Brown Brexit. As if by magic, UK policy in the organ donation space has opened up. How did they do it? By getting rid of free will. Opened…

Tory Chairman Ben Elliot’s role in Quintessentially English global prostitution racket

Quintessentially English Ben Elliot, the Chairman of the Conservative Party, nephew of Prince Charles, close friend of Zac Goldsmith, and Boris Johnson’s tennis partner, co-founded and co-owns Quintessentially, an elite services or ‘concierge company’ which created and registered the website…

UK gets approval from Vietnam to join Comprehensive & Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP)

It is a bit weird to see Dominic Raab / Alan B’stard strutting his stuff on the world stage. Strange seeing Raab in Vietnam trying to get approval for the CPTPP trade agreement. Is anyone actually following any of this?…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Time to Learn Arabic

Henry Kissinger told me when portraying a miser always remember to stress his generosity. And so we come full circle. The age of austerity, for which I am the poster child, is upon us. But never so much as what…

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…

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…

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…