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2025-08-30: Two out of every five protestors arrested at last years anti-immigrant protests had a history of domestic abuse

2025-08-30

Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse: These anti-immigrant protests aren’t really anything to do with protecting women.

2025-08-29: This is an idea I’ve not seen before on the kind of site that suggests you write a letter …

2025-08-26: Britain's anti-immigrant protests are infused with right-wing extremism

2025-08-25: 'Putin's People' gives you a detailed background of Putin's rise to power, and the causes of some of the consequent horrors

2025-08-25: In 'Butler to the World', Bullough elucidates Britain's apparent ambition to be a facilitator to any corrupt billionaire that'll pay enough

2025-08-25

Why Labour keep losing the attention war

2025-08-24: Farage's Times interview - his dystopian cruelty and proven incompetence will surely make Britain a worse place for us all

2025-08-22

Refugee charities install safe rooms and relocate amid rise in far-right threats

2025-08-16: America, América by Greg Grandin is an exceptional retelling of the history of the Americas, with great relevance to the world today

2025-08-13: Only a tiny percentage of deaths in the UK result in an inheritance tax payment being due

2025-08-10

Police arrest 474 people at protest over Palestine Action ban in London: Mostly for holding up a sign saying they support Palestine Action it seems.

2025-08-03

‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse: There is nothing new under the sun.

2025-08-03: 📚 Want to read: Goliath’s Curse by Luke Kemp. The usual cheery reading. Luke Kemp surveys the …

2025-08-02

Trump fires statistics chief after soft jobs report: Shooting the messenger because he doesn’t like the unemployment stats.

2025-07-27: Democrats Act Like Elections Are Complicated. They’re Not. Our research found that economically …

2025-07-27

Democrats Act Like Elections Are Complicated. They’re Not.: Just run on progressive economic policies.

2025-07-26: The usual relationship between religion and political party in the UK - something that has really …

2025-07-17

Will Nigel Farage’s attempt to copy and paste Trump’s policies work in the UK?: No, or at least not in a sane world.

Voting age to be lowered to 16 across UK by next general election

2025-07-16: Two years ago a data leak revealed the personal details of the thousands of Afghans who secretly helped the UK's armed forces in the decades long war

2025-07-12: The US and UK cuts to aid are a death sentence for millions of people

2025-06-29

How the Supreme Court’s Injunction Ruling Expands Trump’s Power: ‘The Supreme Court ruling barring judges from swiftly blocking government actions, even when they may be illegal, is yet another way that checks on executive authority have eroded’

Labour’s relationship with working class ‘broken’ as analysis reveals it is now the party of wealthy: Yougov poll results.

2025-06-20

This Pride Month, We’ve Reached Rainbow Capitalism’s End: ‘…when the culture goes in another direction, as it has especially since Mr. Trump was elected again, corporate allyship becomes corporate snubbing.’