The jury in the case of Jersey anti-genocide activist Natalie Strecker last week was told to ignore international law, according to former Derby North MP Chris Williamson, who went to Jersey for the first two days of the three-day hearing, which closes on Monday 1 December. Strecker, a wel...
And we’re back for another week of Strictly Come Dancing! Since La Voix had to leave last week, all those scores will be carried over. There’s also a brand new challenge this week, instant dance, which sounds absolutely batshit. Next week is the quarter final, so who will get through to Mu...
Oracle is the database and cloud computing company which is owned by Larry Ellison. Ellison wasn’t that well known in the UK until recently, but he became infamous after it was revealed he backs the Tony Blair Institute. Larry Ellison, Oracle founder and Trump fan, gave £300m to the Tony B...
Big Brother Watch have warned that police forces are feeding passport data into facial recognition databases: 📸Your passport photo has secretly been turned into a facial recognition police mugshot. By subverting our photos into a giant facial recognition database, we’re all at risk not onl...
The past few months have seen flags going up all over the UK. These flags did not raise themselves, however, and they’re not removing themselves either. The consequence of the Raise the Colours campaign is that some councils are charging the people who erected them: Yorkshire Council bille...
On 29 November, it was reported that Israel had murdered two children via a drone strike. They’d been gathering firewood for their father at the time, as the elder man himself is a wheelchair user. The drone strike which killed them hit close to a school which was sheltering displaced peop...
Following her much-maligned Autumn budget, Rachel Reeves has appeared on the Sunday interview shows to defend herself. The approach she’s taken has been the ‘Keir Starmer method’, which is to deny reality and insist she’s been very honest, actually: On tax Rachel Reeves says she’s been hon...
Your Party have officially announced their forever name™, and it is… *DRUM ROLL* …Your Party. It was Your Party all along. After an all-member vote, Your Party will be our permanent name! This choice reflects what we’re all about: a radically democratic party breaking with the top-down Wes...
Artist Matthew Collings, who used to work as a BBC art critic but now concentrates on his own art, has an exhibition of his work underway in London. Art critic Waldemar Januszczak described it as: One of those rare art displays that feels as if it’s doing something art has never done befor...
Note from ed: this article was written before the Your Party conference – after the chaos of conference weekend, its conclusion is even starker. It’s Tuesday evening in Manchester, and I’m attending a Your Party rally where Jeremy Corbyn is speaking, just before conference this weekend. Le...
