Tag: Fascism
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The Gender Critical Cult Is Moving Mainstream
The whole Gender Critical movement (TERFs, people who hate trans folks, basically, LGB Alliance, Glinner, JK Rowling, that lot) has been bubbling under toxically for a long time, like QAnon, like Flat Earthers but less benign, anti-vaxxers and the like. But it seems that this very vocal small group of Xtian fundie right-wing linked people…
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Christmas Leftovers 2: Last Christmas to Fuck The Tories
Well firstly before the obligatory Wham – Last Christmas mashups (who on earth makes those?) we have to cover The Kunts who are aiming to knock that ‘sausage roll grifter’ off the Xmas #1 with the wonderfully BBC-friendly title of Fuck The Tories. I love the Cassetteboy and Mr B remixes especially. Now I’ve had…
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RC 371: Don’t Truss it / Kings & Queens
Aka a Tale of Two Lizzes…. one Liz leaves as another arrives as I go away for a month and we get not only a new Prime Minister Liz Truss but a new monarch? So of course I have to start with God Save The Queen – Sex Pistols not Elgar – they cancelled the…
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RIP Steve Bronski of Bronski Beat
Sadly Steve Bronski of Bronski Beat has died aged 61 (on the right in the above photo). I can’t stress how important his band was – not only launching the career of Jimmy Somerville but also soundtracking my early queer experiences and being one of the few out queer bands – the only one that…
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RC 326: A Big Line In The Sand (Black Lives Matter Pt 1)
Brothers and Sisters…I don’t know what this world is coming to…. My response to the death of George Floyd, the Black Lives Matter protests around the world and is to create a two-parter focusing on radical and revolutionary voices criticising racism, fascism and police brutality. So I pass the mic to celebrate and uplift the…
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The Longest Con – NHS and US Healthcare after brexit
We are being sold these lies about the NHS and US healthcare by disaster capitalists and vultures wanting to cash in here in the UK, and Americans are being sold down the river. They are trying to privatise our NHS, via Mini-Trump and pretend that the NHS is terrible. It isn’t, it’s underfunded and struggling,…