Politics
Putin’s Poison Apple
Someone’s fed the Kremlins past midnight again. Their latest stunt? poisoning Putin’s popular opposition Alexei Navalny. In 2018 Navalny attempted to run for president but was barred due to criminal convictions. These convictions are two charges of embezzlement, both thought to be politically motivated to keep him out the game. Scared of that notorious threat to Russia’s internal stability – [...]
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Panic in the US as Trump Virus Mutates
Although Covid-19 is wreaking havoc around the globe once more, seemingly mutating at ever scarier rates and causing policy pandemonium within the world’s various governments, it has been increasingly difficult to ignore a particularly virulent and toxic virus that has plagued the US for nearly four years. Indeed, this virus has also mutated over the last couple of weeks – causing [...]
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British Empire gets a reboot
With Brexit done and dusted 'global Britain' is calling up old friends... namely former white colonies around the world. In other words, Empire, a band which rocked all three worlds, could be making a comeback! Fans from across the english speaking world are growing ever more excited as rumours begin to mount about the possibility of a CANZUK reunion tour. Fans [...]
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Society
Lockdown 3 in ‘public interest’… but the public aren’t interested
[vc_video link="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKNvOBB6u4Y" align="center"] In a final 2020 curveball, the British government announced that a new strain of the Coronavirus had left it no choice but to close the South-Eastern part of England (including London) down. People within the so-called ‘tier 4’, can’t leave to other parts of the country, visit others within the zone or celebrate Christmas with their loved ones. [...]
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♫On the third day of Christmas Boris said to me, three household mixings♫
Boris Johnson as well as the other leaders of the UKs devolved nations have decided that from the 23rd to 27th of Christmas the deadly virus that is sweeping across the country will stop, a Christmas miracle! From the 23rd to 27th the people of the UK will be able to mix in ‘bubbles’ of up to three households, though restrictions [...]
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Night of the living mink
Zombie-mink are rising from the dead in Denmark and threatening to spread a new and mysterious mutant coronavirus. Some months ago, the Danish government discovered that a new strain of COVID-19 was running rampant in the country’s mink population, whose silky pelts make up the bulk of Europe’s fur trade. The Danish response? Minkocide. Some 17 million mink were culled and [...]
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Columns
Borat’s lost all the magic
Like many others, I was bitterly disappointed not to have seen Rudy Giuliani nude in the Borat reboot Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bride to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. But Sacha Baron Cohen’s new film is a political stunt packed with disappointments and falls far short of the original offend-all mockumentary. In the film’s [...]
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Football’s new plastic fans
While football fans across Europe scrambled to justify which Bundesliga team they had in fact always supported, and fans across the UK forced themselves to watch German football without chanting for the destruction of “10 German bombers in the air”, it seems that the restart of the South Korean K-League has caught us all off guard. Similarly to games in the [...]
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Column: The Corona Coup
The coronavirus pandemic is redefining the relationship between ordinary people and the state in a way unprecedented in recent times. In some countries the law is changing drastically without so much as a vote. In the UK, the government passed a far-reaching emergency powers bill that has practically suspended liberty. One ‘libertarian’ MP was close to tears as he spoke on [...]
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