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Our Sweet Lords

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by Petunia Winegum on October 29, 2015

Out-of-touch, privileged, cosseted from the real world, little or no interest in what goes on beyond their bubble, imbued with an arrogant born-to-rule sense of their own importance; sons, daughters, nephews and nieces of former occupants, inheriting

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Watson Tide

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by Petunia Winegum on October 12, 2015

If we were to think of those who voted for the 2003 Allied invasion of Iraq and did their utmost to block any investigation into the affair, certain obvious names would leap forward; it’s significant that these

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Angels with Dirty Faces

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by Petunia Winegum on October 9, 2015

An 11-year-old in Jefferson County, Tennessee this week shot dead his 8-year-old neighbour because she wouldn’t let him play with her puppy; the shotgun belonged to his father. Across the Atlantic almost fifteen years earlier, Bristol

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Asda’s Got a Brand New Bag

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by Gareth on October 3, 2015

From this Monday, the whole might of the law will prevent supermarkets from giving free carrier bags to consenting adults. Not really a proper law, but an Order made under the Climate Change Act, which allows extra

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Straight to Hellas

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by Petunia Winegum on July 3, 2015

With creditors at the door, Greece hovers on the brink of bankruptcy, is finally declared insolvent and then has to be bailed out by an international financial authority. No, not 2015, but 1893. I’ll refrain from saying

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Flagged as Inappropriate

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by Petunia Winegum on June 25, 2015

When Oasis signed to Creation Records in 1993, Liam Gallagher was asked why the sleeve of the band’s demo tape had featured a striking image of the Union Jack looking as though it was being sucked down

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Why I Think Edward Snowden is a Hero

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by Guest on June 15, 2013

by Kingbingo

This is a guest post by Kingbingo, a long time contributor to this blog.

Life used to be pretty good for Edward Snowden. He had a good income of over $100k from a job

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Everybody Here but those Turkeys

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by Matt Wardman on June 7, 2013

It was late morning in the Porcument, and Peter the Pig was in mid-nap, dreaming of better times.

Was it really only a few years ago the heroic Sir Stuart Bell had spent days and weeks

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This is the Self-preservation Society!

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by Anna Raccoon on May 15, 2013

You cannot avoid the Angelina Jolie story this morning, it is spread across every media outlet. A chance to have a gawp at her breasts – but it’s all in a good cause…

In case you

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The NHS and Whistleblowers.

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by Anna Raccoon on February 22, 2013

“NHS spends £15million (the same as 750 nurses’ salaries) on gagging 600 whistleblowers.” The headlines are particularly shrill this morning – and utterly misplaced.

The NHS is an inanimate object, a legal entity, comprised of human beings. Human beings that we

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Socialist Surrealism

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by Matt Wardman on February 10, 2013

This week we have an object lesson in what happens when you dig up the the dead Victorian body of your Great Grandparent, prop it up in the hallway in a sharp 2012 suit, and hope that

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Attack of the Rouge Landlords

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by Matt Wardman on September 18, 2012

Those evil Rouge Landlords.

They’re at it again, terrorising tenants up and down the land.

At least in the imagination of anti-landlord campaigners.

Unfortunately, when Shelter did some research to try

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London Underground – Shearing the Olympic Sheep

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by Matt Wardman on August 10, 2012

I find myself – unusually – travelling the London Underground, from St Pancras to Waterloo; coincidentally during the height of the Olympic boom.

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Polly Maths

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by Matt Wardman on August 2, 2012

Here we go again. Polly Toynbee had a narrative rant this week after Danny Boyle’s Olympic opening ceremony. Half of it is soaring rhetoric; the other half an assortment of claims alleged

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London 2012 Olympic Torch Flames Going Postal

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by Matt Wardman on June 10, 2012

So you can’t afford an Official Olympic Torch from the 2012 Relay, complete with 8000 holes:

Representing the inspirational

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Sir Robin the Hood?

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by Matt Wardman on May 31, 2012

How do you write about a terminally boring, hugely complicated, but very important subject?

And especially a subject that could have 10 volumes written about

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Centre for Labour and Social Studies (CLASS)

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by Matt Wardman on May 28, 2012

I’m delighted to announce the relaunch of (yet) another left of centre lesser-spotted Flatpack Thinktank, The

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Don’t embarrass Kerry McCarthy MP, Comrades.

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by Matt Wardman on May 26, 2012

Overheard on the Twitter, Kerry McCarthy MP wishing that a drunk had been killed before he could ‘breed’.