Don’t Buy the Sun

I have a number of reasons to hold the Sun newspaper in contempt. Their treatment of Liverpool fans in the wake of the Hillsborough tragedy was beyond appalling, and the city collectively decided that they wouldn’t stock the paper from then on, with most outlets continuing to refuse to do so even now. In fact, […]

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Racism is out in the Open

Well this is some bullshit right here. https://t.co/PHslyl7fm2 — Ben Berwick (@darth_timon) February 8, 2020 Follow the thread, you’ll see what I mean. Warning, it’s a long thread.

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‘Slut Shaming and Star Trek’

As with this post (what I’m writing now follows on from it) there may be minor Star Trek: Picard spoilers. There will be some content that misogynsts will find offensive, but oddly enough, I can live with that. After my brief conversation with Wes, I discovered another Twitter user, Kodai, had been weighing in, but […]

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Wanting Sex makes a Woman a….

Well, the answer should be a normal person. Apparently, having sex makes a woman a slut if it’s a one-off thing that’s purely about the sex. Now, some warning, there is discussion here about Star Trek: Picard, so expect spoilers. They made Data's daughter sluts… — Wes Moody Webcast (@WesMoody10) February 3, 2020 When I […]

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A Sensitive Snowflake…

@SirPatStew if you want me to not watch a show is to make it political it's why I didn't watch #StarTrekDiscovery and it had poor writing and threw out the #StarTrek lore. I was looking forward to #StarTrekPicard but your latest interview kills it for me. — Andrew (@pcwizard7) January 13, 2020 It’s without a […]

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A Shaky Start

It’s fair to say 2020 has not had the most glorious of beginnings. Donald Trump’s war-mongering seems aptly timed to distract from the impeachment process (military action always seems a way to steer conversations away from domestic woes), and Australia is suffering under the grip of some of the worst bush fires ever known. These […]

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Guardians

It falls to each of us to be those anxious, jealous guardians of our democracy; to embrace the joyous task we’ve been given to continually try to improve this great nation of ours. Because for all our outward differences, we all share the same proud title: Citizen. Ultimately, that’s what our democracy demands. It needs […]

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An Anti-vaxxer by any other name…

… Is still an anti-vaxxer. Dear Media,Please retire the use of the term “Anti-vaxxer.” It is derogatory, inflammatory, and marginalizes both women and their experiences. It is dismissivemy simplistic, highly offensive and largely false. We politely request that you refer to us as the Vaccine Risk Aware. pic.twitter.com/WtAyFOhLuv — Crazymothers (@Crazymothers1) December 1, 2019 What […]

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A Damming Indictment

This one hits close to home. This is 2019. Why are people dying in our streets? This is not Victorian Britain. This is a damming indictment of our society. Lee was an addict, but he was still a person. He would have had people in life who cared about him.

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One Month

One month. One is all it’s taken for Boris Johnson to lose the Conservative Party’s majority in Parliament, see a surge in rebellious MPs within his own party, massive, nationwide protests to his plans to prorogue Parliament, and watch his bizarre Brexit plans be wrenched out of his control. This would be hilarious, if the […]

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