OPINION

Why are some so afraid of women, gays, trans, etc?

— While some in the United States are chomping away at our rights, others are attacking our democracy from within. What are they afraid of?

Testimony

Disability – The farce that is PIP.

— The UK’s benefits system for disabled people, whose life with a disability is a life spent battling to achieve even the simplest of tasks and that takes an immense toll physically and emotionally, is simply vile and insidious, and the assessment is just appalling.

OPINION

No bullsh*t, no exaggeration... American democracy becomes American autocracy in 2023.

— Right around this time next year, from June 2023 thru July 2023, the greatest, most successful, and freest exercise of self-government, American democracy, will constitutionally end.

OPINION

Quick summary of the ERG’s – sorry, your next Prime Minister’s plans for Britain.

— Our next PM, supported by a global network of free-market think tanks, will attempt to turn Britain into a Libertarian-Right dystopia by enacting the insane and cruel policies outlined in a book by Jacob Rees-Mogg’s dad.

OPINION

Get Borexit done.

— As the two words “I resign” have not crossed his lips and he is carrying on as though nothing had happened in a very disturbing way... Has Boris Johnson actually resigned?

OPINION

Pass the popcorn: The Tories are in meltdown.

— Rishi Sunak, Sajid Javid and others resigning now have been complicit in Boris Johnson’s trashing the standards expected in public office. They are as bad as he is. He is their creature.

OPINION

I believe her. Mostly.

— I don’t believe Cassidy Hutchinson intentionally lied on the stand, at all. I believe she testified honestly to what she knows first-hand and to what she heard second-hand.

OPINION

Well, we are the people and we say yes.

— Boris Johnson and the UK Supreme Court can say no if they want to... Well, we say yes, and we are the people.

OPINION

Abortion. Complicated? Or not?

— The U.S. Supreme Court throwing out the precedent-setting Roe v. Wade ruling obviously draws strong feelings on both sides of the issue.

OPINION

The corrective enlightening power of the Juneteenth holiday.

— The Juneteenth Holiday makes white nationalists and Republicans who make attempts to delete history, members of the walking-dead club.

OPINION

As the Beatles said, I say it’s my birthday.

— If only B. Jay Cooper’s wishes could come true... if only!

OPINION

The ‘greased piglet’ oinks again (for the time being).

— Although Boris Johnson has yet again slipped through the cracks, the Conservative Party is now deeply divided and polls suggest that they could be headed for two catastrophic defeats in the Wakefield and Honiton by-elections.

OPINION

A Tory vote of self-preservation.

— The fact that Boris Johnson is in this position despite winning a huge majority just over two years ago is a testament to his gross unsuitability for high office.

OPINION

U.S. gun violence – We have to make it stop.

— Rank-and-file Americans, most Democrats in Congress and a handful of Senate Republicans support some form of common-sense gun control. But nothing ever gets passed.

OPINION

The graywash.

— The only lesson Boris Johnson has learned out of the Sue Gray Report is that his spineless party has let him get away with his bad behaviour which means that he can continue to get away with breaking the law.

OPINION

Independence and democracy, or jingoistic authoritarianism.

— The political struggle of our time is no longer left versus right. It is democracy versus authoritarianism.