So, here we are then. We now have the European Commission, the European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), plus the Ice Queen and Ice Queen Mutter of the world’s very own, here-and-now, live-and-direct Hunger Games, Christine Lagarde and Angela Merkel respectively […]
Adult media can be described in all sorts of ways, but quirky and adorable are two adjectives generally not attributed to it. The e-tail site GameLink, however, is changing that particular perception just in time for the Internet to be flooded with heavy discourse. So […]
You know, we were thinking, what with a Presidential campaign about to kick off big time, that it would probably be a good idea to find out where all those hopeful candidates stand on the issues that matter most to us. We want to know, […]
On the day that archaeologists claimed to have discovered the derelict remains of a Nazi hideout in Argentina, Texas’ Republican Senator Ted Cruz decided to run away from home and join the Presidential nominee circus. I’m not necessarily saying those two facts are related. We’re […]
Earlier this month, legislators in two states in the US, Kansas and Arkansas, set the clock of progress in equality rolling backwards by passing laws that once more make it legal to discriminate against the LGBT community. In Kansas, this philosophical and socio-political regression was […]
The HSBC scandal – involving wide scale tax evasion and money laundering, among other activities – is yet another example of how large, powerful institutions have come to believe that they can do whatever they like, regardless of the law, and can act unethically with […]
So, I’ve just finished reading a book called The Establishment and How They Get Away With It, by Owen Jones. I guess just from the title I knew I was going to love it, chiming as it does with my very strong belief that society […]
There are all kinds of dirty wars going on in this post-Soviet world where, thanks to the Internet and social networking—the deadly physical kind and the more abstract one involving the ‘civilized’ world and a ‘medievalist’ one, the fundamentalist and the enlightened, believers and atheists, […]
Yesterday, December 4, 2014, saw thousands of fast-food workers and their supporters descend on almost 200 cities in the United States to make a stand for a minimum wage of $15 along with other labor rights. For those of you who don’t remember, labor rights […]
So it’s all finally over. Scotland voted ‘No’ to independence. Well, 55 percent of Scotland voted no, which is going to leave the other 45 feeling pretty disenfranchised for a while. Then again, either result in such a close race as this would have been […]
“It’s not that I’m not voting out of apathy; I’m not voting out of absolute indifference and weariness and exhaustion from the lies, treachery, deceit of the political class that has been going on for generations now and which has now reached fever pitch, where […]
In 2013, Belle Knox, a student at Duke University, becomes a familiar face in the online porno scene. For Knox it is a way to pay her US$60,000 annual tuition fee. She is outed by a fellow student and all hell breaks loose. Her personal […]
Above: Nigel Farage, the leader of UKIP The UK, or perhaps in this context I should say Great Britain, has always had a particular love/hate attitude towards the denizens of other countries. Maybe it’s because at one point we pretty much ruled the world. A […]
Recently, Maclean’s ran an article ruminating on the dumbing down of the United States. According to multiple studies, deftly shoved together by writer Jonathon Gatehouse in the piece, one of the most powerful nations is dropping in intelligence, and not just in the cut and […]
If you’ve been driving around England as much as I have recently I trust you will have seen the U.K Independence Party’s (UKIP) new GBP1.5m poster campaign. The campaign is risible at best, and I feel as though left wing media outlets have done a […]
When I set up my Facebook account, I chose not to fill in most of the info it asked for. I’m well aware of the fact that little is really private there, and take the view that Zuckerberg and his minions don’t need to know […]
This week heralded the birth of a friend’s twins. It’s the first birth that has come from within my friendship group, and what has been the resounding feeling amongst all those who have visited their small house hence the birth is unbridled joy. Step foot […]
In Part 3 of Henry Vespa’s look into The Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership, he focussed on the deal’s legal ramifications. He now concludes his treatment of the TTIP with a look at how the agreement affects national sovereignty. What it comes down to is, the […]
Part One of a series by Henry Vespa looking into The Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership introduces us to the controversial initiative… The Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership – what a lovely innocuous name. So dull and corporate and bland that it’s guaranteed to attract almost […]
In The Neoliberal Woman, Henry Vespa began looking into what has happened to feminism in the neoliberal age. Here is his conclusion to that investigation. Once upon a time, feminism envisaged a better world, a fairer world; a world in which rights were equal and […]
