Has there ever been a presidential campaign so awash with lies and bigotry? No one seems to know or care – certainly not the supine media that appears to lap-up Trump’s misogyny, racism and utter bulls*t every single day with … Continue reading
Is there a job worse than being a surrogate for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump? Trevor Noah doesn’t think so. On last Monday’s episode of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show, Noah expressed heartfelt sympathy for the people whose job is … Continue reading
GOP pollster Frank Luntz really set Bill Maher off on Friday, when he attacked the host for cracking jokes instead of engaging in serious discussion. Luntz kept insisting that Donald Trump is doing well, and Maher said that’s only the case “because … Continue reading
It began in Utah back in 1977. On January 17 of that year, Gary Gilmore became the first man to be executed in the US for more than a decade, ending a national moratorium on the death penalty. Gilmore, guilty … Continue reading
The announcement earlier this year that a 78-year-old man was to be paroled after serving 48 years of a 30-year sentence caused an outcry – most loudly and unedifyingly from the knee-jerk ridden right-wing media. As the man in question … Continue reading
The recent publication of the Department of Justice report into racism in the Ferguson police force and Fox News’ ridiculously partisan reporting of it reminded me of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s assessment of the Fox take on the riots … Continue reading
As Officer Darren Wilson does the media circuit explaining that we should be feeling sorry for him rather than the unarmed man that he shot and killed with multiple rounds and the St. Louis prosecutor strains every sinew to ‘explain’ how … Continue reading
The former chief of the Seattle P.D. has admitted recently that he ordered his officers to gas “non violent, non-threatening protesters” during the mass protests that accompanied the 1999 World Trade Organisation‘s meeting in Seattle. In his book, ‘Breaking Rank’, … Continue reading
The Daily Show and the Colbert Report returned from their summer hiatus’ with a blistering attack on Fox News’ coverage of the events in Ferguson and the problem of racism in the U.S. First up was a return to form for Jon … Continue reading
First broadcast in September 2013, this is the Channel 4 Dispatches documentary that explored the horrific scale of Cyril Smith‘s sexual abuse of children and the how the police, crown prosecution service and MI5 not only knew of his activities but actively … Continue reading
August is called the silly season for a reason. It is the time when most politicians leave for extended vacations and journalists are left with little else to report than how easily chocolate melts in the sunshine or how burnt … Continue reading
Unless you have been in a coma for the last week or so you will not have been able to miss the latest “police execution” of an African-American in the US. This time the victim was 18-year-old Michael Brown who … Continue reading
“The Prime Minister doesn’t want the truth, he wants something he can tell Parliament” (Sir Humphrey Appleby, Yes Minister) First published 27 July 2013 Last week David Cameron made the most of the opportunity to claim that his party’s policies on … Continue reading
I Am Incorrigible 