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Some Things George Galloway DOES Think Are Rape…

Stop The War protests in London, 24 Feb 2007. George Galloway. Scenes from Trafalgar Square. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) 1) The annexation of East Jerusalem after the Six Day War and the Iraq War. THINGS...

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Nick Clegg: A Poor Apology For A Party Leader

English: United Kingdom’s Deputy Prime Minster and Lord President of the Council Nick Clegg. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Dear Nick, Hi! Thanks for taking time out of your busy day to make a video for me....

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Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before…

English: British politician Ed Miliband, Leader of the Labour Party (2010–) Deutsch: Der britische Politiker Ed Miliband, Vorsitzender der Labour Party (2010–) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I know making...

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My Top Ten Alternative Christmas Films

English: Still from the silent short film The Night Before Christmas, 1905 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) So, the BFI has taken a breather from compiling informational corporate safety films from the 1950s...

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Join The Wonka-conomy!

Ed Milliband MP speaking at the Labour Party conference. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) This morning, Ed Miliband gave a speech at Google’s Big Tent event. Here’s a transcript of part of it. I’d like to...

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Dear Police, Here’s Why I Don’t Believe You…

I’m friends with all sorts on Twitter. Some are members of that puzzling faction who believe that the real problem with the country isn’t deep and abiding police corruption, but protestors and people...

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If You Vote, Have The Decency To Shut Up About It

This Week is an odd programme. Only the unique way the BBC is funded can ensure that this shambling, incoherent mess of an hour’s telly makes it to your screens every week. Want to hear establishment...

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Why Your Mall Santa Is Judging You

Being a man of encroaching middle-age and portlitude, last month I was asked to fill in a couple of times as an understudy department store Father Christmas. Swathed in cheap velour, covered in itchy...

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Why Losing “Snog, Marry, Avoid” Is A Tragedy

(Full Disclosure: I write for The Revolution Will Be Televised so everything I say above should be taken with a pinch of whatever condiment you like because it airs on BBC3. Oh, and it won last year’s...

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8 Signs That You Might Be Passive-Aggressive

If you don’t know them, I’m not telling you.

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25 Life Lessons I Learned From Tony Blair’s Autobiography

I’ve just read all 700 pages of Tony Blair’s autobiography, A Journey. It was quite a transformative experience for me, because I opened it convinced that he was amoral, venal and unprincipled, and one...

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BBC Question Time Fact Sheet 04/06/15

Hey, everyone! Remember back in the old days, when I used to write a #bbcqt fact sheet for UsVsTh3m every week? Well, unfortunately, UsVsTh3m is dead, and its corpse is currently passing painfully...

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Just what do we have to do to start a proper debate on immigration?

The good thing about UKIP is they’ll talk about the things no other politician will talk about. They’re not afraid to discuss the elephant in the room. Finally, they’ve got the politicians talking...

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Why I support pretty much any strike by pretty much anyone, anywhere, about...

If you live in or around London, or work there, or know anyone who does, your social media will have been drenched in anger at the Tube strike this morning, along with the occasional voice popping up...

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The Day Bert Died

Bert signed up on his birthday. He was sick and tired of the looks people gave him, the whispered comments, the shopkeeper’s glare. So he signed up as soon as he could. And they marched a lot, and...

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Syrian Mojo

Made a quick reponse to George Osborne’s saying that Syrian airstrikes meant Brtiain had got its mojo back. It’s bound to be taken down by all reputable sharing sites soon (Facebook has already...

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A Left Eurosceptic Voting to RemaIN

This all feels a little redundant now. I was going to say this felt like a pretty simple choice between principles and practicalities. I was going to say that the principle of less-opaque government,...

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The Ballad of Southern Rail

At the end of June, I wrote a passive-aggressive poem about Southern Rail and put it on the internet. Then BBC South made a video of it, which got more than 2 million views and it’s been on Radio 4’s...

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Why YOU should break Godwin’s law today…

Scrolling down FB I saw this on a friend’s post: “Stop comparing it to the rise of Hitler. We are in a different age. Social media, tv and information is readily available. We are not going to wake up...

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