NO LEAVE to REMAIN
by W Stephen Gilbert Last Christmas, as you do, we received the usual batch of greetings cards from people we’re only in touch with at that time of year....
Brexit Never Just Meant Brexit
by Dan Mallon “Brexit means Brexit” is one of the many cryptic slogans that constantly emanated from Theresa May’s shambolic – soon to be defunct – Tory Government. What...
Jonathan Freedland's Corbyn Apology
In an attempt to restore some his fast-disappearing credibility, Jonathan Freedland gives a half-hearted, over-qualified apology to Jeremy Corbyn. It's self-serving, dishonest, and far more revealing than he meant...
General Election 2017 – the Tories “won” but spectacularly lost
Despite the two-year long rabid anti-Corbyn propaganda from the Murdoch tabloids, traditional Tory press and establishment at large. Despite the shamefully lukewarm and last minute semi-endorsement from the...
General Election 2017 – Polling Day is Here
For the first time in my living memory a General Election is happening with a real choice on offer. Not just a political either/or, but a real moral decision....
Sticking Your Neck-and-Neck Out
by W Stephen Gilbert Now we dare to hope. If the rain isn’t too relentless on Thursday…If the Momentum activists do their stuff and all those who’ve volunteered to...
Terror in Britain: What did the Prime Minister Know?
by John Pilger The unsayable in Britain’s general election campaign is this. The causes of the Manchester atrocity, in which 22 mostly young people were murdered by a jihadist,...
VIDEO: The Naylor Report – Tories Plan to Sell the NHS
YouTuber Chris Holden’s video on the Naylor Report and Theresa May’s plans for the NHS has gone viral in the last week. Deservedly so, he’s done the hard yards...
MSM trying damage control as May is mocked all over social media
by Catte Last night’s televised “Battle for No. 10” proved a cataclysmic disaster for the Tories. Before the debate even ended #TheresaMayGIFS was a trending hashtag on Twitter, representing...
JFK at 100: The War on Our Heroes Part 1
If the bullets hadn't flown, John Fitzgerald Kennedy might have been one hundred years old today. Granted, it's not likely, put definitely possible. If the parade route hadn't been...
"Is free-speech really worth all this hassle?" – Gaby Hinsliff
Kit Knightly I’ve never written a response to a Gaby Hinsliff column before. I’ve never felt the need. In much the same way that I’ve never written an online...
ISIS Terrorist Attack in Manchester? 17 Days Before Crucial UK Elections
At the end of a pop concert by US singer Ariana Grande in Manchester, an enormous ‘controlled’ explosion killed at least 22 people and injured 59, as reported by...
Who goes home?
by W Stephen Gilbert It’s true that opinion poll failings – and poll successes in anticipating election results more or less accurately have been thin on the ground –...
VIDEO: How May will finish off the NHS
Needs no explanation or development. Whatever you think of Corbyn or Labour and their manifold shortcomings on foreign policy etc, if you want to keep universal healthcare free at...
The OffG view on the UK General Election
A while back we said we’d watch and wait for developments in the UK General Election. So far nothing is happening that could not be expected. The Tory press...
Article 50 triggers strong reactions on both sides…but what will change?
There is a wonderful episode of South Park from 2008, based around the first election of Barack Obama. As the results are announced the democrats...
Game of Knowns
by W Stephen Gilbert How about a game of let’s pretend. Say that Owen Smith gets to make the Leader’s Speech at the Conference on the 28th. I know,...
