John Prescott’s phoney class war has taken another bizarre twist with the announcement that he has accepted a peerage. Prezza made a BBC documentary recently all about his class war and in 2005 he even slagged off Tony Bliar’s school “reforms” because they weren’t working class enough.  Yet as Deputy Prime Minister he was on a [...]

The Fortean Times merrily pointed out this morning on Twitter that the Olympic mascots “appear to be Cyclops-eyed, pincer-handed aliens“. He may not be Prime Minister any more but we just can’t get away from El Gordo. Anyway, what about those mascots, eh?  Very shiny, and bit angry looking and just a little bit phallic [...]

Facebook fans in Pakistan will no doubt be pleased to learn that a home-grown rival to Facebook has been released following the site being banned in the country …

So one of the first acts of our new EU regional administrators is to introduce fixed term parliaments. Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless I support fixed term parliaments – I even have a button for the campaign for fixed term parliaments in the sidebar of this [...]

Well, it looks like people didn’t use their vote wisely after all. The expected anti-LibLabCon backlash didn’t materialise with people voting for the LibLabCon coalition.  The Leaders “Debates” shown on Sky, ITV and the BBC successfully deflected attention from the local candidates and onto the party leaders even though only a few thousand of us [...]

The polling stations have been open for 20 minutes now and today is probably a once in a lifetime chance to change the face of English politics forever. For too long, English politics has been about the same tired old parties – the dishonest Conservatives, the illiberal and economically illiterate Labour Party and the weak [...]

The election is almost upon us and it’s time for a prediction I think: Nick Clegg will be Prime Minister. Now, don’t get any silly ideas about the Lib Dems winning the election because they won’t.  The Tories will win the election with most seats but they won’t have a working majority and Cameron would [...]

Is it really 12 months since the mayhem and violence of last years May Day? You’ll be pleased to know that the left still haven’t lost their appetite for mindless violence and this years May Day is shaping up to be just as vicious and riotous as previous years. In Nepal, the Maoists who have [...]