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…

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…

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…

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…

From Clickbait to Jailbait, Aadhaar

Aaadhaar is India’s massive biometric ID Card system. And it’s flawed. It takes it’s name from Hindi for Foundation or Base. Aadhaar is run by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) under the  Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and…

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New Report from the Public Appointments Commissioner

Revolving Door This appears to be meta-corruption fest. I recommend pages 22-27 and the final few pages. No names mentioned and only cursory references to breaches. With an election coming up, little of what David Whyte said in this interview…

US Opioid firms Too Big to Jail

HSBC are well known for making their money selling Opium in China in the 19th Century. But now in the 21st Century US corporations are openly selling death on the streets of America — and getting away with it. I’m…

Privately run care home hits the skids

Care firm condemned again Cygnet Health Care condemned again Staff snoozed and patients’ rooms were bare or smelt of urine at a psychiatric hospital run by a healthcare company that was forced in May to shut another site.Newbus Grange in…

How’s that coup coming along?

Dominic Cummings & side-kick Skandar "Boris Johnson" Kemal are following an age old maxim from an age old playbook.
"I don't want to know what the law is. I want to know who the judge is." -- Trump's mentor, Roy Cohn

Oliver’s Army … Here to Stay

The BBC portray Oliver Letwin as a ‘Tory Rebel’ simply because he says he opposes a No Deal Brexit. The BBC propaganda machine struggles with nuance. Sir Oliver is an Etonian, just like Kwasi Kwarteng, Rees Mogg, Jo, & Boris…