It’s safe to say I would rather saw my own arm off than spend an evening at a One Direction gig. So my sympathy for the ‘hordes’ of teenage girls who not only have to struggle on a daily basis with their crippling lack of musical taste but who were also reportedly denied entry to [...]
There is mold growing on my bathroom wall. A couple of weeks back I engaged in a spot of serious cleansing and triumphantly declared that it had been been vanquished. Yet when I went downstairs this morning I noticed that, for the umpteenth time, it had reappeared. All of which brings me to the matter [...]
I’ve found myself returning to this song recently. It was written soon after the Aberfan disaster in the 1960s. Still rings true.
Ok, so given there’s a lot of shouting going on at the moment I thought I’d put this up here. I had a piece published in LibCon today which was relatively heavily edited by Sunny. Fair enough – it’s his blog. I do think my position was rather misrepresented but have done my best in [...]
This is a guest post by Jo O’Reilly. All protests it would seem are not created equal, or that’s how Tony Rayner, Chair of the Essex Police Federation would have it at least. As was announced in the Guardian on Thursday, the Police Federations Chair Paul McKeever has warned MPs that they could face the [...]
“There’s always a bigger fish.” – Qui-Gon Jinn Paul Krugman on his New York Times blog notes a symptom of just how far the West has regressed in the distribution of income: so much of America’s wealth is concentrated in the top 1% of the income scale that those only just below actually feel insecure about [...]
The rise of the Tea Party in America has presented lefties and liberals with more than two brain cells to rub together on both sides of the Atlantic with a problem. Picking a facepalm of the week just got a whole lot harder. Following the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona, Republican senator Jon Kyl [...]
Guest post from Danny Chivers, one of six defendants whose charges were dropped in Nottingham Crown Court this week, following revelations about an undercover police officer who had infiltrated the UK’s environmental protest movement. Here, Danny explains the extraordinary events that led to the collapse of his trial, and what they tell us about the [...]
We think that the next wave of protest in the country may well be a set of occupations of local libraries, so we at The Third Estate have set up a little resource for that to happen. Go check it out – http://occupyyourlibrary.wordpress.com/ – If you want us to add anything, just email us on [...]
As we know, under new rules the unemployed could be stripped of their benefits for up to three years if they are judged to have breached their duty to seek work and take up offers. Today in parliament Sian James, MP for Swansea, asked a rather pressing question about how that decision will be made: [...]
