Family Guy try to legalize cannabis; Venezuela try to ban Family Guy.

The Venezuelan government has attempted to ban Family Guy because they think it promotes Marijuana use. Cable TV stations which don’t stop airing the show will be given hefty fines. Justice Minister Tareck El Aissami said the programme should be pulled from the airwaves after being outraged by a recent episode in which the show’s [...]

Lies and the lying liars who tell them

These people used to control the United States’ nuclear weapons. From our American correspondent, Andrew Weir. So. Healthcare, eh? Since I got to the US, I’ve been trying very hard not to be “that Brit” (and “that commie Brit” come to that), who goes around saying “Well, with the National Health Service, things work much [...]

Glasgow DIY Festival

The Glasgow Festival of DIY Culture is currently underway with loooads of good shit happenin’ before it finishes on Sunday. What’s even better is that everything taking place is free slash not-for-profit! The organisers have taken over premises on Renfield Lane (opposite Stereo) for the duration of the festival, with other events taking place at [...]

Paxo gets spiked

Director Spike Lee in an interview with Jeremy Paxman hits the nail on the head. Paxo – “That doesn’t mean he does it because the President is black though is it?” Spike – “Look, how long have you been Black?” “I’ve never been Black” “Thankyou very much so from someone whose been living in America [...]

When the Lib Dems aren't busy sitting on the fence, they're stealing ideas.

LEFTFIELD EXCLUSIVE: Secret footage of Tavish Scott (the leader of the Scottish Lib Dems, apparently) giving an inspiring speech at the recent Lib Dem conference in Bournemouth. Tavish has been whinging and whining about the SNP. Heres what he had to say. “Over four years, the SNP will have spent £950m on a set of [...]

Trip up trump!

All this info is taken from Tripping up Trump website. Trumpland Clearances Donald Trump has asked the council to use their power to forcibly clear people from their homes, all in the name of a private golf course. Below are just a few of the locals that are threatened. David and Moira Milne first met [...]

Breaking News: Poor people steal food.

The Conservative Party are angry about the recession. Really, really angry. Not at global capitalism and the ruling classes who caused it, though. No, they’re angry because they don’t think enough of the rising number of people who are shoplifting food are being put in prison. Police recorded 320,846 incidents of shoplifting in 2008/09 – [...]

Everyone loves the C-word!

my ones r better than yurs A new phenomenon is sweeping Parliament. Yeah, those crazy politicians, they just can’t stop saying the C-word! Gutted to say that the C-word they’re all so keen to utter isn’t even a particularly descriptive word, let alone the C-word that sums themselves up so succinctly. Nah, this is a [...]

They'll let any old shite on the internet these days.

Here’s me speaking at Mondays meeting against youth unemployment. Have a look at it if your interested though I would have got more views if Kanye West interrupted me, unfortunately he agreed with the whole speech and the perspectives for a Socialist Scotland.

District 9 review

District 9 is a film I have been excited about for months now. South African director Neill Blomkamp and producer Peter Jackson (of Lord of the Rings fame) have made a tale of an alien ship that becomes stranded hovering over a near future Johannesburg. The main part of the film takes place 20 years [...]