Dear Guardian Media Group…
Philip Roddis …in light of yesterday’s news – which ought to have been emblazoned across your front page in three inch block letters but mysteriously wasn’t – that the...
This Week in the Guardian #15
Every now and then (it used to be weekly, but then a pandemic happened) we like to highlight three or four stories that go full-Guardian, but don’t require an...
Opposing lockdown is NOT “profits before people”
Ever since the UK entered "lockdown", those pushing for it to end have been labelled "callous" or "selfish" or accused of putting profits before people. Meanwhile millions are unemployed...
Coronavirus: The only thing spreading “exponentially” is fear
Kit Knightly Shall we start off this little overview with some cold hard facts? Not the ones about death rates, and the flu, and clinical diagnosis. We’ve done that....
Brexit ‘crisis’: political theatre & the demonizing of democracy
Catte Black We already know democracy is currently a sham. A lip-service. And nowhere more so than within the EU. Time and again this has been revealed. EU referenda...
Uncle Tom’s Empire
CJ Hopkins I don’t normally do this kind of thing, but, given the arrest of Julian Assange last week, and the awkward and cowardly responses thereto, I felt it...
The Obvious Dirty Dealings Behind Julian Assange’s Arrest
The US has been planning to have Julian Assange handed over for a longtime, that much is obvious. Mike Pence, the Vice President, was visiting Ecuador last year, notionally...
Anti-Semitism Pandemic!
CJ Hopkins Get the kids into the house! Lock your doors! Board up the windows! Break out the gas masks and hazmat suits! According to the corporate media, we...
Owen Jones Unpersons Chris Williamson
Kit Knightly UPDATE & CORRECTION: Owen has claimed he changed the article in question some time before the expulsion of Williamson. We have now checked his claim on the...
Three Point Failure: The Guardian’s racist campaign against “dirty Russian money”
Kit Knightly Since the initial press hysteria over the Skripal case, the major political parties of the UK have been clambering over each other in an effort to scale...
Monbiot, Syria and Universalism
I’m worried about George. An admirer of many years standing of his excellent columns charting what John Smith’s even more excellent Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century...
Owen Jones: vote for Hillary because when she's POTUS we can ask her nice to be progressive
by Catte Owen Jones – one time darling of the liberal Left, is now, officially, endorsing Hillary Clinton. True, they changed the headline shortly after publication. It originally read...
How Left Remain Campaigners Sold Out the Working Class: Lesser Evilism in the EU Referendum
by Tom Barker There are few illusions about the reformability of the EU on the left, even amongst those campaigning for Remain. Paul Mason has stated that “it is...
Does Owen Jones really believe the internet is hurting democracy?
by BlackCatte Over at the Guardian’s shiny new “the web we want” section there’s a veritable onslaught of the “problem – reaction -solution” method of manipulating public opinion. Several...
Owen Jones: Tough on meanness, tough on the causes of meanness
In his latest piece on Vladimir Putin, Owen Jones demonstrates the weakness of the politically left-of-centre press in the UK - and indeed the Western world as a whole....
No, Corbyn doesn’t need to win over the MSM – he needs to talk directly to the people
by BlackCatte Corbyn’s best endorsement, both of his integrity and his potential power, is the media hate being poured on him; and his best – in fact his only...
On meeting dodgy people
by Owen Jones on Tumblr Disclaimer: I’ve known Jeremy Corbyn for years, and I support his against-all-odds leadership campaign. In his decades of political activity, Jeremy Corbyn has attended...
