Category Archives: News
9th April 2010 - An end to democracy.
2010. The year the UK surrendered its democratic values.
Harsh words? Perhaps? Yet most people who have witnessed the way through which the Digital Economy Bill was rushed through parliament without proper scrutiny and debate will probably agree.
An unelected peer (Peter Mandelson) was the one who introduced the Bill (to claims that it was written by the big media corporations), over 20,000 people emailed their MP’s to demand a debate reflective of the size and scope of the bill and only 40 MP’s turned up to discuss it at its second reading.
Hardly due democratic process, I’m sure even the staunchest proponents of the Bill would agree.Rushing the Bill …
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09/05/09 - Did the media exaggerate Swine Flu?
Barely one month after Mexico reported its first death from a suspected swine flu outbreak the topic is already falling off the media agenda. In that time we have seen global media organisations calling the outbreak a “global crisis” and a “real threat to humanity.” However, there has only been one death outside Mexico (a Mexican infant visiting …
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09/04/09 - Gordon Brown snubs policeman
Just a little post on how Gordon Brown is a bit of a tool.
Just goes to show that Gordon Brown in a bit of a bumbling politician sometimes in my opinion.
While it may …
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30/03/09 - What’s with all the incest?
Is anyone else slightly disturbed that over the last year the number of cases of fathers raping and fathering children with their own daughters is now at four?
First there was Josef Fritzl, who imprisoned his daughter for 24 years and had seven children with her.
Then there was a man in Sheffield, …
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