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Boris Johnson’s Incredible Landslide

by Catte Black

Catte Black There’s an orgy of election post mortem going on at the moment. A lot of people in the mainstream and the alternative media are bringing their own certitudes about ‘what went wrong’ yesterday and how the UK has somehow ended up with an elitist clown and his party of sleazy greed-merchants returned to …

Dec 13, 2019

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Did Laura Kuenssberg Commit Massive Breach of Electoral Ethics?

by Kit Knightly

The BBC may have just unwittingly revealed – or even committed – a huge breach of electoral rules. Giving a report via her phone this afternoon, the BBC’s political editor Laura Kuenssberg seemed to suggest that some unknown party had improper access to postal ballots: …the postal votes, of course, have already arrived. The parties, …

Dec 12, 2019

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Fake News and the “Punch” that never happened

by Kit Knightly

Kit Knightly Yesterday the Health Secretary Matt Hancock went to Leeds to visit a struggling NHS hospital. It was a PR stunt designed to make the Tories look pro-active in the face of a late-campaign PR disaster. The hospital in question was hitting the headlines because of the viral images showing patients sleeping on floors …

Dec 10, 2019

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Quo Vadis, Lebanon?

by Editor

Andre Vltchek Good bye, Lebanon, metaphorically and truly. Good bye to a country which, many believe, actually has already ceased to exist. For five long years I have been commuting between the Asia Pacific and the Middle East. And Beirut, for all that time, was one of my homes. I arrived in Beirut when the …

Dec 8, 2019

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Reddit Bans Users for Telling the Truth

by Kit Knightly

Last week Jeremy Corbyn unveiled dozens of leaked documents. Documents showing that Boris Johnson - and the Tories in general - are lying when they say there are no plans to open up the NHS to US trade. This means, not only that the NHS is in danger of further privatisation and/or ruinously expensive deals with American Big Pharma, but that the Prime Minister...

Dec 7, 2019

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The OffGuardian View – GE2019

by Editor

Consider this a catch-all discussion thread on the UK General Election 2019. A few readers have been asking in email and in the comments why we aren’t running daily campaign updates on this, ‘the most important election in decades’, or ‘the most important election of the century’, or since time began or whatever hyperbolic descriptive …

Dec 6, 2019

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UPDATED: London Bridge – Evolving Narrative

by Editor

The final, official story of the London Bridge attack is beginning to take shape. More information is coming together all the time, the very efficiently edited Wikipedia page for Fishmongers Hall already has a short section dedicated to events of the two days ago. Here is what we know so far: The Alleged Attacker His …

Dec 2, 2019

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Armenian genocide resolution reaffirms the ‘g-word’ is a tool for US interests

by Kit Knightly

Max Parry Last month, the US House of Representatives voted in an overwhelming bipartisan majority to officially recognize the Armenian genocide more than a century after the atrocities were committed. The motion was a departure from decades of US government refusal because of its ‘realpolitik’ considerations of regional ally and fellow NATO member, the Republic …

Nov 30, 2019

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We’re back

by Admin

As you probably noticed the site went down yesterday at around 5pm GMT. A few hours earlier we experienced another major Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, but this time the perpetrators managed to get past Cloudflare and other defences and attack the site directly. We therefore had no choice but to change the site …

Nov 28, 2019

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