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There’s a genocide going on

Last Saturday in the British media I saw two articles, one on the BBC News site by a writer whose name I didn’t notice (on a second look, it’s their North America correspondent, Anthony...

The irrelevance of the Blood Libel

Every so often, when an appalling atrocity of the Israeli occupation force against a Palestinian child is exposed in western mainstream or social media, there will be a Zionist loudly condemning the report as...

Motorbikes and me

This summer I’ve made two attempts to learn how to ride a motorcycle. Both failed. On the first occasion, in early July, I was just getting the hang of riding the bike around the...

Teens, sex and “statutory rape”

Any time the matter of sex involving teenagers is adiscussed on social media, there is someone who insists that the act must be rape because someone younger than the age of consent cannot consent....

Racist thugs on the rampage

Last week, following the murder of three young girls in Southport, Merseyside, who attacked a number of other girls and their teachers at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class, gangs of racist hooligans have been...

Get the Tories out!

We have a general election tomorrow (4th July); it may be today by the time you read this. We have had 14 years of Tory mismanagement, five of them enabled by the Liberal Democrats,...

Let’s do away with these NIMBY zones

I’m a truck driver, and something my MP is going to be hearing from me about after the election, whoever they are, is the proliferation of so-called environmental weight limits or, as they’re often...

Violent people get violent

In the last few years a whole genre of videos has sprung up on YouTube of compilations of clips from people’s dashcams, or from the channel author’s own. Some of these channels (particularly the...

Know-nothing managers, uncaring carers

Last week there was a report (here in PDF and .docx formats) published by the National Survivor User Network, a mental health advocacy group run by people currently in or who have experience of...

Don’t mention the genocide

The last couple of weeks I saw a few articles on the Gaza genocide by Zionists, as well as a series of social media posts by a Canadian Instagram influencer who (although it’s not...

The Auriol Grey case and pavement cycling

Last week a woman who had been imprisoned for (allegedly) causing the death of a cyclist she encountered on a pavement in Huntingdon, a small town in eastern England, and waved her arms and...

Desperate Tories, shameless lies

Today the Tories published on their Twitter/X account a video claiming that Sadiq Khan’s London was the model for how the country would be governed if Labour were to win the forthcoming general election,...

Women need the mosque

The issue of women’s access to the mosque and the inadequate space for women in many mosques in the UK has been a thorny issue in the community for decades, way back before blogs...