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Headfuck (Noun) Anything confusing, that interferes with the usual functioning of the brain - particularly something that is offered as...
The Haze says: This story is so typical of Tory Britain and yet rarely gets reported in the corporate media. A woman...
Tony Benn remarked that were two kinds of politicians signposts and weathervanes. Signposts indicate the way ahead, resolute and unchanging...
Every picture tells a story. Here is a snapshot of The Guardian's politics section this morning. Puff piece interviews with...
The Labour Party cannot live in the past. It's time to ditch the neoliberal drift of the Blair era, and return...
A disabled woman has lost the car she relied on to attend vital hospital appointments, after the government decided she...
Historians may look to 2015 as the year when shit really started hitting the fan. Some snapshots: In just the...
(yes it does exist! - buried in the housing section of The Guardian a pro-Corbyn article. A super piece too....
A teenager who stole sweets and ice cream worth £5, a woman found begging in a car park and a...
All news reporting is biased. Once a newspaper selects some facts, chooses certain kinds of headlines and where to place them, it is making...
If you self identify as left wing or 'progressive' then its likely you have protested against the inequities and ideological...
The Guardian has become a liberal frosted version of The Daily Mail. You think not? Read on... Like the BBC...
Jeremy Corbyn's rivals in the Labour leadership have unveiled their latest policy statements in a bid to stamp out the return...
Special advisors and PR gurus were tonight talking with important people like journalists and lobbyists about the menace of Jeremy Corbyn...
*Boondoggle: ‘a project that is considered a useless waste of both time and money, yet is often continued due to...
The Haze watches with incredulity the daft campaign being run by internet petition mongers 38 Degrees in aid of the 'independent' BBC' - a supposed...
This morning Greece has come to an agreement with the so called troika of the IMF, ECB and the EU and...
One thing we’ve learned in the years since the financial crisis is that seriously bad ideas — by which I...
I’ve spent nearly a decade thinking about why people get stuck on climate change: stuck in debates, denial, what looks...
Millions of children are engaged in paid or unpaid domestic, manual, agricultural and other forms of work worldwide, leaving them...
They’re hidden behind sewing machines or swinging hammers. They’re selling snacks street side or swinging machetes in sugarcane fields. They’re...
I believed it myself for a few hours - after decades of media rumblings about corruption at FIFA, the FBI finally...
Israeli writer and journalist Gideon Levy has been called the "the most hated man in Israel". For three...
The battle to shape our society never sleeps - it doesn't end on election night and lie dormant for...
Modern politicians love talking about aspirational people and families, but offer only the narrowest and most poisonous view of human aspiration and vision...
Today we focus on the declared front runners for the Labour leadership election. In an unsurprising move, Labour has decided to...
If you were in Downing Street today and had to scrawl one word on a banner to explain how you feel...
So Labour lost and were all but wiped out in Scotland. Ed Milliband fell on his sword quickly and took full responsibility...
I run this blog mostly single handed. after the cowardly and murderous attacks on the children of Gaza by the...