rightwing dark money group’s fake survey on Insta
A survey is bouncing around on Facebook and Instagram calling National Trust members to “help shape the future” of the organisation. Only, the survey hasn’t come from the National Trust.…
Customer credit worth £3bn being hoarded by energy suppliers
Over two-thirds of Welsh billpayers (70%) are calling for energy suppliers to automatically return any customer credit in their account after winter following the success of a mass protest which…
Wikileaks is a noble endeavour regardless of opinion on Assange
Noam Chomsky perfectly summarised the liberal media thusly: The media are a corporate monopoly. These are days of vast conspiracy against humanity by the invisible empire, in which tight control…
Kenya government accused of abducting protesters
Kenyan protest organisers called on Wednesday 26 June for fresh peaceful marches against deeply unpopular tax hikes. The death toll from nationwide demonstrations has climbed to 22 according to the…
party shows its true transphobic colours
The Labour Party is once again capitulating to bigots. Naturally, it’s another billionaire – this time one with a zeal for transphobia. Specifically, Labour’s shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves has offered…
Starmer House of Lords U-turn apparent with plans for peerages
It’s just over a week away from polling day. So naturally, slimy Starmer has just enough time to squeeze in another galling U-turn before taking power. The award for ditching…
Chris Mason comes out as a client journalist for billionaire Labour
The BBC’s Chris Mason just offered a masterclass in how to be a dutiful little ‘client journalist’ sell-out – this time, for the Labour Party during the general election. The…
NHS trust pushes misleading material
A branch of a local NHS care board has been circulating highly misleading – and possibly illegal – leaflets and material on controversial physician associates. To make matters worse, the…
classism & capitalism haven’t changed
The Battle of Orgreave was a violent assault on striking miners by police on 18 June 1984. 40 years on, it stands as a stark symbol of the classism and…
Neoliberalism continues to fail, yet what’s the alternative?
The solution to global development has seemed to lie in the application of free markets. If serious social disorder arises, the reasoning goes, it must be centred on an absence…
Private Eye mops the floor with the Tories
Towards the end of May, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) made some pomp and ceremony about catching some honest-to-goodness (though maybe not so much) real-life benefit fraudsters. Now…
banana giant guilty of financing death squads in Colombia
In a historic first, an American jury has held a major US corporation liable for complicity in serious human rights abuses abroad. Specifically, the case has held banana giant Chiquita…