Why raising the retirement age is a spectacularly crap idea

Among the many things to make your blood boil coming out of the comprehensive shafting we all received at the hands of the government on Wednesday was the really crap plan to make us all work longer. By 2018 (2 years earlier than previously planned) the retirement age will be equalised for men and women, [...]

Government makes solemn pledge to make everything shit

Yesterday the Tories and the Lib Dems announced their plan to cut pretty much everything decent in Britain, transforming our society into a bleak vision of a grey hell hole conjured up by the imagination of Charles Dickens affected by low serotonin. With £81 billion coming out of stuff you rely on, cuts no longer [...]

Education under attack

Higher education in the UK is facing a swathing, ideological attack from the coalition government – that will fundamentally change the face of university and college education as we know it. Last week’s publication of the Browne Review, on the future of higher education funding, recommended raising the limit on tuition fees for UK students [...]

Angela Merkel: Another "mainstream" politician backs racism

Over the weekend, German Chancellor Angela Merkel told a meeting of the youth wing of her Christian Democrat Union (CDU, kind of like the German Tories) party that multiculturalism had “failed, utterly failed” in Germany. What this amounts to of course is a massive attack on the communities of immigrant descent in Germany, from the [...]

Beaker lets the cat out of the bag – time to fightback against Condem muppets!

MEEP – Treasury Secretary and Beaker lookalike Danny Alexander has let the cat out of the bag. 500,000 jobs in the public services are to go; that’s a brutal cut of 1 in every 10 public sector jobs. This massive cull in the public sector won’t be the end of increased unemployment – any cuts [...]

If you can't win the war on drugs…

Then try and win the war on drug addicts – that seems to be the stance taken by “Project Prevention”, a US based “charity” that’s come to the UK to offer £200 cash to any drug addict in exchange for being sterilised. They were featured in the news a few months ago, after a group [...]

Millions take to the streets in France

Three million people took to the streets in towns and cities across France today, in a mass display of opposition to the French government’s austerity plans, which include raising the retirement age by two years. Today’s demonstrations follow a week of unrest, which has seen a general strike on Tuesday and continuous strikes across different [...]

Strikes are good for tourists!

For the past few days employees of the Greek Ministry of Culture who work at the Acropolis in Athens have been on strike to protest the fact that they haven’t been paid properly for almost 2 years (!) and that they are due to be fired at the end of their short term contracts. Workers [...]

theft, vigilantism and the fetishisation of public humiliation

On Thursday, a group of five people attempted to make off with a load of watches from a posh London jewellery shop after smashing the window with a sledgehammer. They were foiled not by police, or shop security – but by a mob of more than 50 passers by and shoppers who jumped in and [...]

Obama is everything

Apart from the SSY blog, the internet has very few useful functions. One of them however, is the autocomplete function when you type stuff into Google. If you type “is obama”, the top results are: a muslim anti british a freemason the antichrist a good president american a christian related to bush jewish a socialist [...]

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