Tag: Daily Mail
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Bye Boris Johnson
Sadly Boris Johnson is still trying to cling on as a Caretaker PM, but good riddance to Boris Johnson (eventually) – the only problem is who out of the utter shitshower of current ministers and MPs will take over his job? The people that as Jonathan Pie says, stood by while he lied to Parliament,…
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Cummings and goings
Jonathan Pie correctly sums it up – totally sweary but very justifiably so. It’s not really about who Dominic is, well a little – it couldn’t happen to a nicer man, etc. It is complete karma. But the anger at the hypocrisy when many have suffered more and the utter contempt with the lies from…
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Finally a Christmas ad I can get behind
It’s still true, and this was a Xmas ad that made me quite tearful, for a good reason. Despite the recent attacks on Stop Funding Hate (a free press is also the right for advertisers to chose not to associate themselves with toxic brands) that the Mail Group is panicking about the campaign. It is…
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Jeremy Corbyn
I’ve heard a lot of crap about Jeremy Corbyn recently…he’s got an uphill struggle against the Murdoch press machine, as well as the spiteful Blairites who bailed on him (I have one phrase: ‘Bye Felicia!’ for Chuka U-Turn Umunna and Jamie ‘Who?’ Reid) and the mostly ambivalent Guardian (who interestingly is benefitting from gentrification as…
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Upvoting and democracy
As an extension of my recent politics rant, this excellent Ideas Channel video sums up some of the problems I have, not only with like/crowdsourcing but also democracy in question. I mean, ask Sokrates about how the whole ‘going against the grain’ thing worked, and he was a ‘content creator’ and ‘super-user’ and probably ‘redditor’…
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You’ve Ruined Xmas
I think it’s about time to post some Xmess songs, as it’s a few weeks away (sorry for those who were trying to avoid all mention of it, I’ll be brief). Love this song from Invocal about Xmas, very funny especially the ‘Daily Mail Banning Christmas’ rant in the middle – but also I’m 100%…