I heard it on the news

I saw a comment on Twitter the other day accusing someone of expressing their view but not knowing what they were talking about, they’d just heard it on the news. I thought what an extraordinary thing to say and how ignorant, because where else do we gather information from other than from what’s reported as […]

Another five years of Conservative brutality doesn’t bear thinking about

Any politician who employs deceit, deception, lies, propaganda, spin, corruption, cheating, defamation, character assassination, libel, slander or any other form of corrupt practice to achieve power, should never hold office. Currently elections are a free for all, reliant on the integrity or parties and individuals, with few, if any, checks and balances to protect the […]

The general election and the war against propaganda

This election is going to be one of, if not the hardest elections the left has ever fought. The ruling elites don’t like Corbyn, the monied elites don’t like Corbyn, the main stream media almost all don’t like Corbyn, the BBC, meant to be the nations impartial broadcaster, doesn’t like Corbyn, the Tories, moving ever […]

Fight to win and break the Tories

The right wing media, the Telegraph, Sun, Mail, Express, etc. are celebrating the hiring of Lynton Crosby to run Theresa May’s election campaign. They describe Crosby in such terms as ‘mastermind behind 2015 win’, ‘political guru Sir Lynton Crosby’, ‘the architect of David Cameron’s victory’, but he’s also known as ‘master of the dark political […]

The dumbing down of truth

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has announced its 2016 word of the year – “Post-truth”: “Relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief,” apparently first used in a 1992 essay by the late Serbian-American playwright Steve Tesich in The Nation. […]

Why is there no Department for Nuclear Disarmament?

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,515 Sunday 07 August 2016. Dear Mrs May, Yesterday was Hiroshima Day, the 71st anniversary of the first of the two nuclear bomb attacks on Japan. The death toll was between 90,000 and 146,000 people and the cry across the world to this day is “Never again!” […]

Propaganda, PR and spin, managing public deception

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,290 Saturday 19 December 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Nice to see that you’ve had to increase the number of your special advisers and spin doctors which cost us £11.1 million last year because if anyone needs them, you do. I am fascinated by the world of PR/spin/propaganda, […]

The Tory party should be branded an extremist terrorist party

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,229 Tuesday 13 October 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, The black arts of propaganda, PR and spin are the ability to couch something in terms which trigger a popular conception and response in the minds of its target audience but which means something quite different in its intent. […]

The Tory ability to swear black is white and 2 plus 2 equals 5

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,202 Monday 14 September 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Ha ha ha ha ha, “The Labour Party is now a threat to our national security, our economic security and your family’s security.” That’s propaganda for you, the ability to swear black is white and 2 plus 2 equals […]

Capitalism will destroy the world, we must have co-operation, not corporations

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,173 Sunday 09 August 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Three myths that you Tories love to peddle: The rich are the entrepreneurial drivers of progress, privatisation offers more choice and better service and the trickle down effect. The great capitalist dream is over, bar the screaming, that is. […]