Pretty feisty post rereading it Av. :lol: (Have to say that I agree with myself though! ;) ) Here's a question. Do governments in functional democracies answer to their people, or do the people answer to their governments? Answer seems pretty straightforward to me - that governments answer to the pe...

Hey guys, Can anybody help with this little quandary. You may have noticed that I post quite a lot of stuff in the 'What do you think today' thread, and in fact it's a pretty comprehensive record of most of what is important that goes on in the UK on a daily basis, and what I'm thinking about it, st...

Oy yes! At last the long awaited Amazon Prime series is about to rock up on our screens, and I for one am virtually gibbering in anticipation. I have a million questions. Will the story of Fallout 4 be incorporated? Will Dogmeat be in it? (I think so, by the way.) Will it go right back to the beginn...

Why the fuck do these idiots like Defence Secretary Grant Schapps keep telling us that we must accept that we are now in a "pre-war world", and start behaving accordingly? Who does the prick think he is - Winston fucking Churchill? The world is only in a pre-war state because assholes like...

Terrible report on the front of the Guardian this morning, in which a Canadian doctor working in Gaza gives an account of two Palestinian girls, 7 or 8 years old, stretchered into the hospital with gunshot wounds to the head, recieved as a result of deliberate sniper fire from IDF soldiers. The girl...

It's absolutely clear that Israel has no intention of allowing humanitarian aid distribution in Gaza to proceed as they have been instructed to do by the UN and ICJ. The deliberate targeting of an aid convoy, clearly marked, that left 7 aid workers dead on the ground shows this (not to mention the h...

Incidentally, amongst that post above was a really significant point that I heard made, oddly enough in respect of Donald Trump, the other day - a point that applies to many things in the media landscape that we daily immerse ourselves in. This being, that you have to work really hard - really hard ...

I listened yesterday, to Labour Shadow Foreign David Lammy hosting his slot on LBC's morning show. His subject of the morning concerned a report in yesterday's press that some 250 lives (estimated) were being lost per year as a result of waiting times for beds in hospitals, following decisions that ...

Happy Easter guys!

A good time to renew our faith in the essential goodness of people, and our hopes for a better time to come.

Trust in the Word: All will be well, and all will be well, and all manner of things will be well.

In a bizarre twist of logic, the government aims to criminalise rough sleeping in the UK by putting onto statute a bill in which persistent "nuisance" rough sleepers can be fined up to 2,500 pounds or sent to jail. Put forward by ex Home Secretary Suella Braverman last year (which in itsel...

The Tories will not be reassured by a new 'super-poll' result, based on a 15,000 person sample size, that predicts that they may suffer the worst defeat in their 300 year history in the forthcoming general election. The poll reckons that the dominant political party in this country since, well, fore...

I think that there is a very real possibility that we are being softened up in preparation for our leaderships to take us into war on a much greater scale. Certainly there is some element of politicking in the commentary that keeps appearing every week or two, each time from a different source (yest...

On the BBC News last night, it was reported that the leadership of the Post Office and the legal team representing them as, knew as far back as 2017 that the cash discrepancies for which the sub postmasters were being accused of having stolen, could indeed have been attributable to faults within the...

In a day or two's time, the annual Oxford and Cambridge boat race will take place down a stretch of the Thames between Putney and Mortlake, but this year's event will not end with the traditional chucking of the rowers into the water because there's too much shit in it. Environmental watchdogs have ...

I think that the decision to deny Shamima Begum the opportunity to have her appeal heard (against having her UK citizenship stripped from her) at the Supreme Court is questionable at best. Earlier this year, three judges denied her appeal to have her citizenship reinstated, prompting her application...

Of course it is impossible for our printed press, so spiteful and contumely under normal circumstances - the worst offenders in spreading conspiracy nonsense about the royals when given so much as a sniff of scandal to root about in (like a dog rolling in shit) - not to become lachrymosal to the poi...

Figures from the Jacob Rowntree Foundation show that around thirty percent of adults live in poverty (as defined by having an income less than 60 percent of the median) in the UK, and a quater of all children live in absolute - not relative - poverty.. Our government is spending 500 million pounds t...

I'm sure that despite the obvious signs that something was clearly amiss with the Princess of Wales, last night's heart-rending statement on the Six o'clock News will have come as a shock to most people who saw it. Princess Kate sat alone, looking vulnerable and tired, to give us the news that the m...

:wave: Hi Av! Greetings from sunny Cornwall (raining as usual ;)) "Labour say 'Time is needed to reflect upon the report' ". What the fuck is that about? Reflect on what? The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman has taken seven years to consider the inappropriate manner in which the ...

Rishi Sunak's Rwanda Bill received fresh drubbing in the House of Lords yesterday, when seven votes on the thing all went against the government. This will put off any intended departures until June at the earliest, and possibly for longer than this if the bill's opponents have anything to do with i...