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At Which Point…

July 13, 2016 Longrider 12

I stopped reading…. As a British Muslim, I’m terrified that Theresa May – winner of 2015’s Islamophobe of the Year – is my new Prime […]

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Idiots and Fascists

July 12, 2016 Longrider 12

At the Guardian, where else? Tim Farron thinks we need a general election… Just over a year after the last general election, the Conservatives have […]

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Paranoia

July 7, 2016 Longrider 9

Paranoia isn’t paranoia if they really are out to  get you.  And concerns about privacy are not and  never have been paranoia. But never mind, […]

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Snork!

June 26, 2016 Longrider 6

Ain’t that a delicious irony? A Leave campaigner who was worried Remain would win has admitted he set up the hugely popular petition to re-run the EU […]

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Another Petiton

June 19, 2016 Longrider 3

Petitions, frankly, are frequently an attempt by a brain-dead minority to force their views on the rest of us. It’s cheap posturing rather than activism. […]

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Lies, Damned Lies…

May 26, 2016 Longrider 4

And statistics. Further to the comments here, I am drawn to something I’d noticed and mentally dismissed earlier in the week. The majority of older […]

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Rilly?

May 23, 2016 Longrider 6

If we lose… Something is happening in the Brexit debate that the polls and the demographic breakdowns are not catching. We know that rightwing Tory […]

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And This is a Problem?

May 22, 2016 Longrider 11

University students ain’t what they used to be… UK university students believe the EU referendum is key to their future, but almost two-thirds do not […]

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Now the Barrel is Scraped.

May 20, 2016 Longrider 32

Slebs think we should listen to them. Benedict Cumberbatch and Paloma Faith are among more than 250 of Britain’s best-known actors, artists, musicians and writers […]