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Raoul Moat: Rapist, abuser and control freak.

Sam Stobbart, ex girlfriend of murderer Raoul Moat has shared her story about the abuse she suffered at his hands. In The News of The World’s interview with her, she talks about when he slapped her every other day, when he raped her, stamped on her stomach, punched her in the spine and gave her [...]

UKIP: absolute nutters in the shit

UKIP, the acceptable face of far right politics in the UK, are possibly facing a financial disaster next month. July is likely to see the judgement of the Supreme Court over the party’s refusal to forfeit over £350,000 of illegal donations. The Electoral Commission says it knows about at least 67 instances of the UKIP [...]

Labour MSP: "Whaurs the burdz?"

Scottish Labour have been again embarrassed as leading MSP Frank ‘the Wank’ McAveety was exposed as a pervy bastard. McAveety was forced yesterday to resign as convenor of the Scottish Parliament Petitions committee and as Labour spokesman for sport. As if Labour hadn’t learned their lessons about microphones being left on already, he was overheard [...]

Glasgow City Council refuses to advertise trainers on the sides of their taxis because of the word “Bum.”

Oh my god a bum! People have bums?! Yes, people do have bums, but this isn’t the nub and gist of the argument here. Sexist advertising? That’s okay. The word bum? Not. I think someone has their priorities mixed up around here. According to the BBC News website, Glasgow City Council refused to let Reebok [...]

By the way, misogynistic audience? You do realise that teenage pregnancy is NOT a new thing?

It makes me grit my teeth every time I see one of the variations of these groups on facebook about “When i was your age, I was <insert something about Pokemon here> not <insert something about getting pregnant here> First and foremost, as pointed out by Sarah, if you’re at the age where you had [...]

Socialist Stunnas say "Don't vote Tory or buy the Sun"

As we’ve already reported today, The Sun have been relentlessly trying to persuade us to vote Tory. The reason for this is that the Murdoch empire that owns it has sunk millions into pushing the Tories, in the hopes of getting a government that will give them everything they want. One of the things they [...]

Broke up with your girlfriend? Slash her face, says Danny Dyer in lads' mag

Having trouble with a break up? Most people just do the decent thing and degenerate into alcoholism, but cockney hardman and wank Danny Dyer thinks you should go one step further and slash your ex’s face, so no one else will fancy her. When you’ve stopped being a nice pair of tits for Zoo readers, [...]

Iceland tells the patriarchy to fuck off

Icelandic feminists protest outside soon to be closed strip club In case anyone missed it Julie Bindel wrote an excellent article in The Guardian on Friday’s about the impressive feminist revolution which gone on in Iceland since the political defeat of the right after last year’s financial collapse. A few days ago the country took [...]

I can't believe you don't shut up

Obviously, one of the biggest annoyances that comes with being a woman in a sexist society is that people are forever judging whether your behaviour is ladylike enough. However, my real pet peeve is when this thoroughly irritating behaviour tries to pass itself off as journalism and not only attempts to make sure you are [...]

"Why do women vote differently from men?"

So asks the BBC, and then gives us a handy hint as to their opinion with the photo they choose to illustrate this feature. Why, it’s because their emotional lady parts decide who they’re voting for, not like strong rational men, and they will vote according to which candidate a babby takes a shine to. [...]