Originally posted on Pride's Purge:
The threat to Jews from antisemitism comes almost exclusively from the Right, not the Left. Research shows this to be a fact: But in order to smear a Labour leader that was threatening the influence and power of a few billionaires, the press in the UK – helped by…
Month: December 2019
The government has failed us, long live the people
A question I never thought I would be forced to ask myself. What do I do if the government of the UK not only betrays me but is, in any meaningful sense, of no damned use to me, my life and well being, at all? In fact, quite the reverse. The head of the government […]
Big pay out for 3.8 million 50swomen will never happen – Tim Loughton MP
Originally posted on Westminster Confidential:
Tim Loughton MP The All Party Parliamentary Group on Women’s State Pension Inequalities is to be revived and will try and persuade the Tory government to make a offer to the 50swomen. Tim Loughton, Conservative MP for Worthing East and Shoreham, used his response to the Queen’s Speech, to say…
We are the people
In a nearby town to me there is a revolution going on. The town is Frome and the revolution has people weeping with relief, joy, amazement and love. How do I know? My seriously ill niece moved there. She is unemployable in any conventional sense. Between bouts of relentless illness and innumerable hospital visits, a […]
The election in the media: against evasion and lies, good journalism is all we [don’t] have – Alan Rusbridger
Originally posted on Politics and Insights:
This post is by Alan Rusbridger, chair of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. In his first 1,000 days in office Donald Trump made 13,435 false or misleading claims, according to the good folk at the Washington Post who painstakingly monitor the president’s habit of bending the truth. How…
The government’s disinformation campaign has been facilitated by a complicit, biased, undemocratic media
Originally posted on Politics and Insights:
Disinformation and new forms of propaganda can take many forms—from the use of false images, misleading headlines, to social media techniques that create an impression of consensus – that the ‘majority’ understands an issue in a certain way (also called ‘bandwaggon technique’). Polling can be misused, for example, to…
In 2017 Boris Johnson launched group proposing NHS sell-off to US firms after Brexit
Originally posted on Pride's Purge:
Boris Johnson spoke at the launch of a leading Conservative think tank in 2017, which has revealed plans to allow private US firms to take over NHS hospitals after Brexit. The radical plans were revealed in recommendations by the organisation called ‘The Initiative for Free Trade’: The IFT was launched…
Fear and Loathing in Great Britain 