The early days of a better nation? – an account of the current situation in Scotland

Turning out to the annual STUC march – held yesterday in Glasgow – I witnessed thousands of people marching in the pouring rain (and it really was monsoon level) for over three hours, and rallying at the end of it. Watching everyone come into the park at the end, and then watching them keep coming [...]

This is Britain, and everything's alright. It's FINE.

All conflict dies in the brotherhood of flags After last weeks multiple days of consecutive rioting, there’s a chance now for some calm, measured discussion on the upheaval that saw the capital and several English cities burn, high streets looted and alleged gangster Mark Duggan shot dead – with three others killed defending their property. [...]

These trees are not for sale.

Big Ben was burned to the ground last week by protesters angry about the coalition government’s plans to sell off all of England’s publicly owned woodland. Unfortunately, it was just a model – this time, at least. The government proposes to sell all of the Forestry Commission owned land in England. That’s 650,000 acres of [...]

Taliban more popular than Lib Dems, polling shows.

As the Lib Dems prepare for their first election – a by-election in Oldham – since they jumped in bed wi the Tories, it’s looking likely that not only will they not be able to win the seat, but they will be crushed at the polls. Even David Cameron has felt some sympathy for the [...]

Fuck yer povvy weans!

The government have taken yet more measures to ConDem (geddit?!) the nation’s children to a life of poverty and misery. Funding for Bookstart, which provides a free pack of books to every baby in the UK in order to “inspire, stimulate and create a love of reading that will give children a flying start in [...]

The story of a wasteful chump and his unloved deputy.

Prime Minister David Cameron is a man who talks a lot of shit. He is insistent that we need to cut public expenditure. He claims that he wants the Con Dem coalition to be the greenest government ever. And yet in June, he spent £303,006 of our money on a four day trip to Canada. [...]

women, stfu. kthxbye. tories + lib dems, xxx

When the Budget was announced this Summer, one facet of the backlash came from women’s rights campaigning group The Fawcett Society, who initiated a legal challenge against the Budget, on the grounds that it was unfair to women, who would bear the brunt of the majority of the cuts. As we reported at the time, [...]

"You said we could stop them Sergeant! Can we fuck!"

SSY apologises for the sweary word in the title, but the above quote was taken from a panicky (hard to say which one tbh) Polis at the demo against tuition fees today arguing wi fellow officers over who was responsible for the titanic fuck up that was the vague attempt at maintaining control over streets [...]

And it seems to me that you lived your life like a shitebag in the wind.

Mind when the media took it upon themselves to decide that Diana was “the people’s princess” even though she had just as little to do with us untitled scum as the rest of them? Well, Aaron Porter would do well to remember that just because the media treat you like you’re King of the Students [...]

The Winter of Discontent is here and now

This week, the Coalition government will face its first major test as it attempts to rush its proposals for the future of Higher Education funding in England – the tripling tuition fees from their current level – through the House of Commons. Huge pressure is coming to bear on Liberal Democrat MPs – nearly all of [...]

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