Top doc: Prohibition has failed

Yet another leading medical expert has come out to call for the decriminalisation of personal drug use. Sir Ian Gilmore is the outgoing head of the Royal College of Physicians, a professional body which represents 20,000 medical professionals in the UK. He has a long standing interest in drugs policy stemming from his background as [...]

UKIP leader: standing down to make way for someone less shite

Lord Pearson of Rannoch, a man who talks like he’s a character in Jeeves and Wooster stories, has stood down as leader of UKIP. The main reason he’s given for doing this is his own raging poshboy incompetence. The aristocratic Pearson, a would-be even-more-crap Oswald Mosley, took over from fellow toff Nigel Farrage last year. [...]

Camp for Climate Action

This weekend, Climate Camp is coming to Edinburgh. Anything up to 1000 people are expected to descend on the capital for five days of discussions, workshops, training and direct action, in the fifth camp of its kind in the UK. Following past camps which have targeted airport expansion and coal power stations, this year the [...]

The minimum wage machine

Check this out: artist Blake Fall-Conroy has designed a machine to help people understand the reality of exploitation in a mimimum wage job. The box is full of (American) pennies, and you have to crank the handle hard in order to get out a penny every 5.04 seconds, which adds up to $7.15 (about £4.50) [...]

Camp it up!

It’s taken a few days for those of us who were lucky enough to be at Camp Secret Squirrel 2010 to get ourselves together enough to write about it. SSY’s annual summer camp this year was a huge success, and hopefully those of you who couldn’t make it this year will see from our photos [...]

Police step up intimidation in Glasgow

The past few weeks have seen a noticeable increase in police surveillance of left-wing activism in Glasgow, with blatant attempts to close down meetings, seize newspapers and shut down street activity. On Monday evening, an initial meeting was held by the Scottish Anti-Fascist Alliance to kick-start organising the opposition to the Scottish Defence League‘s proposed [...]

They've done it again! Another week, another bullshit inquiry

When Israel announced that they were holding their own inquiry into their massacre of aid activists on the Gaza Flotilla, which happened at the end of May, it wasn’t a massive surprise when their ‘impartial panel’ proved to be a total sham. As we reported at the time, Israel predictably hand-picked a panel mostly consisting of [...]

The Tories: Creating ‘Spongers’ since 1979

By McMeg Gettin handouts can be so frustratin Get in line son there’s five million waitin’ The Proclaimers, Cap in Hand As a central part of actualising Dave Cameron’s glorious vision of The Big Society, the Con-Dem coalition has promised to sweep away the “cycle of dependency” that afflicts Britain’s “pockets of worklessness”. Announcing his new welfare [...]

CAMP SECRET SQUIRREL: this week. r u comin? gonna be epic

We’ve been counting down the days to Camp Secret Squirrel for months now, and we’re now eventually onto the final stretch. The coach has been booked, the beverages are sorted, the workshops and the food have been finalised, and now we’re just waiting for youse all to show up. Cause if you don’t, you’re probably [...]

Three great Marxist cartoons

The Royal Society for the Arts has been recording talks given by important public intellectuals and adding animation to make them a bit more accessible. Three of the talks so far have been by leading Marxists, and they’re really worth a watch. If you’re friends with a lefty person on Facebook, there’s a good chance [...]

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