On the day before last years tax is due for payment, the UKUncut organisation staged a series of protests to highlight to the general public that some of our largest enterprises are avoiding tax through sophisticated schemes. Previous articles on… Read More ›
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The flame of student protest extinguished by light police touch
MORE HERE Following the 4 major protests in November and December last year in the lead up the vote in the House of Commons, a further 2 were organised for London and Manchester. This was always going to be a… Read More ›
Is homosexuality a maths problem?
The good people of the Training and Development Agency for Schools quango have funded a scheme with a £35,000 grant to “celebrate the gay community” in maths, geography and science. This initiative is not about educating children, directly, about the… Read More ›
A young girl wanders through the history of Sarajevo
June 28 1914, a young girl wanders lonely, amongst the throngs of people out on the street of Sarajevo cheering the arrival of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Princess Sophie. Her earlier wish for independence turned into anxiety and… Read More ›
One-Liner Week 23rd January 2011
Andy Coulson, David Cameron’s Communications Director resigns due to the continued publicity surrounding the phone hacking story, and the News of the World. This has the making of becoming very “toxic” and time will tell how widespread, and high-up the… Read More ›
UKUncut: Is the “black economy” worse than tax avoidance?
The UKUncut initiative continued with its protests again last Saturday (15th January 2011) with a sit down demonstration outside Vodafone on Oxford Street. This was followed by gatherings outside of British Home Stores, Boots and Top Shop. The numbers that… Read More ›
One-Liner Week 16th January 2011
Brisbane, Australia’s third largest city braces itself for significant flooding. Edward Woollard, 18, student who infamously through a fire extinguisher from the top of Millbank Tower on the day of the student protests gets jailed for 2 years 8 months…. Read More ›
Girls, Geeks, and Grand Prix
My annual pilgrimage to the Autosport Exhibition at the NEC in Birmingham is an ever changing event and is a source of great fascination. Many years ago I would have gone as a great fanatic of grand prix racing and… Read More ›
Student Tuition Fees Protest: Before the Violence.
Much has been written about the violence at Millbank Tower, in Parliament Square, the vandalism of government and public property, the dropping of the fire extinguisher, the destruction of a “fake” police van, the kettling, the thugs, youths, anarchists, the… Read More ›
Climate change brainwashing of young people
The Observer on 9th Jan 2011 published an interesting article called “No Country for Young people” where they interviewed a number of people about their views on the world today including economic prospects, personal and global outlook. One person, who… Read More ›