The Tories Hate the Poor

I’m reposting something from last September. It remains as relevant as ever. Yeah, I’m being blunt here, but why wouldn’t I? It’s the truth. They recently announced plans to raise National Insurance, something that will affect the poor a lot more than it will affect the wealthy. They plan to reduce Universal Credit payments soon, something […]

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The Tories – Eroding your Rights

Also posted on The Coalition of the Brave. During my travels around the web I discovered yet another reminder of what modern-day Tories stand for. They stand for the steady erasure of rights and democracy. From the excellent post by Dr Nafeez Ahmed: Nationality and Borders Bill: Up to 15 Million at Risk As has […]

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Churches, Taxation and the Truth

The following is a response to some rather outrageous and deliberately disingenuous statements issued in response to a critique. I’ll leave it to the reader to determine who I am responding to, and why. Given his history of this, I intend this to be the last time I directly respond to this particular Evangelical. There […]

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The Meerkat Muse –  26/1/22

Welcome back to the weird and wonderful world of the Meerkat Muse! Covid comes Home Back on the 14th my daughter felt a bit unwell, so my wife did a test and sure enough, she tested positive for covid. As per the rules she had to remain off school and my wife and I had […]

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The Rot Starts from the Top

By now anyone following the news in the UK knows of a slew of illegal parties attended by Boris Johnson and his compatriots, despite strict lockdown rules prohibiting said parties. The excuses given out by Johnson (and his cronies) are among the most ridiculously weak excuses imaginable. ‘I thought it was a work event‘ has […]

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‘I thought it was a work event’

This is the argument put forward by Boris Johnson, the UK Prime Minister, in defence of the latest revelations that lockdown rules were not followed by those in power, at a time when there were severe penalties for disobeying the rules. The lockdown back during 2020 was very strict, strict enough so that families were […]

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The Establishment Clause

Time to visit (or should that be revisit?) the US Constitution, specifically the First Amendment and something referred to as the Establishment Clause. To quote from the link: The First Amendment’s Establishment Clause prohibits the government from making any law “respecting an establishment of religion.” This clause not only forbids the government from establishing an official religion, […]

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