While Tories distract us with Brexit, the NHS has just slipped out a price list for treatments
UPDATE: The trust has suspended its attempt to make NHS patients pay. Thanks to you – everyone who shared. But …
Author Archives: Tom Pride
In Sweden, MPs are public servants – not a class above everyone else. Imagine if we had the same here.
Swedish MPs – including government ministers – are not given chauffeur-driven cars, but have to travel by bus and …
US owner of Panorama abuse hospital previously filmed and accused of similar patient abuse in 2017
Undercover videos from 2017 show staff from same US owner assaulting young patients A hospital owned by the private US …
White working class man to Brexit Party/UKIP: “I’m closer to a Polish hotel maid than Nigel Farage”
Posted by Guy Matthews on Facebook: Just been told by a UKIP type that I don’t understand the white working …
Theresa May’s Britain: homeless man jailed for “sitting on the ground”
There have been certain milestones on our decade-long descent into government cruelty, austerity madness and widespread intolerance under the Tories …
Tory Councillor: people with different accents are “scary”
Local Tory Councillor Gaynor Sinar has had to apologise after blaming local Labour canvassers for a rise in burglaries in …
Police insp who shopped Diane Abbott for drinking on train faced disciplinary for far-right comments
The retired Met’ Detective Chief Inspector who took a photograph of Diane Abbott MP drinking a mojito on a train …
Beware far-right candidates posing as ‘independents’ in local elections
Labour MP Jo Cox was murdered by a local far-right extremist in her constituency who hated ethnic and religious diversity, her …
Campaigning against antisemitism only – while ignoring other racism – is simply white supremacy in action
This might be my most controversial blogpost yet. But truth hurts sometimes. And here it is. Antisemitism exists in the …
More Brexiter lies: No – the Revoke Art. 50 petition is NOT being faked by Russian bots or fraudsters
According to leading Brexiters, the petition to revoke article 50 (sign here) allows people to sign multiple times, allows non-Brits …
Jacob Rees-Mogg backs activists cited by New Zealand mosque murderer
Jacob Rees-Mogg openly supports a right-wing group called ‘Turning Point‘: Turning Point is a US import into the UK, headed …
Please don’t ask me if I am Jewish if you want a polite reply.
Since I started to write about what I see as the trivialisation of antisemitism in recent months, I have been …
Did you hear Jeremy Corbyn was ‘egged’ today? He wasn’t. He was punched.
According to many mainstream press outlets, Corbyn was “egged” today during a visit to a mosque: But that is a lie. …
“Bomb Synagogues”, “Jewish Rats” – Tory politicians in Facebook hate group
Comments by supporters of Boris Johnson – unreported in the mainstream press – found on a Facebook group run by …
Hard brexit campaign run by white, male, public school educated, southerners
One of the biggest and most ridiculous lies spun by the UK press is that the Brexit vote was some …
How Labour‘s Brexit strategy is walking into a Tory trap
Guest post by Dr. Mike Galsworthy, Director of Scientists for EU and NHS Against Brexit It’s no secret that Jeremy Corbyn’s office …
Tories plan to strip holiday pay, workers’ rights, employer pension contributions after Brexit
Why is Theresa May’s former-Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab – and other top Tories – so hell-bent on a hard Brexit? In 2011, …
Theresa May allies caught spreading anti-semitic propaganda
Theresa May’s Conservatives sit in the EU parliament with their close allies in the European Conservatives and Reformists group Poland’s …
Tories issue licences to property developers to kill protected robins, starlings, blackbirds, sparrows, bullfinches
Natural England and Natural Resources Wales have mysteriously given the go-ahead for protected species such as robins, starlings, blackbirds and bullfinches to …
DWP tells grieving mother to find job 3 days after death of young child: “grief is not an illness”
Posted on Twitter by an NHS GP: Dear @DWP, When a distraught mother has lost her young daughter, please can …
Severely disabled 64-year old man found starving to death – while billionaires get tax cuts
These photographs and this status was posted on Facebook by a law adviser on Christmas Eve: Please spare a thought …
BUSTED! Murdoch hack pretends to be Labour supporter leaving party over Corbyn
There’s a touching article in the Independent today from a supposedly lifelong Labour supporter who has left the party because …
If Chinese conglomerates cannot control our phone networks – why have the Tories sold off our NUCLEAR POWER to the Chinese?
Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson is trying to display how tough he is by expressing his “concerns” about Chinese conglomerate Huawei …
More lies from desperate Brexiters – UK will NOT lose abstention rights, nuclear deterrent if we stay in EU
Brexiters are getting desperate as they become more and more a minority. They are resorting to lying and spreading fake …
Leavers ALREADY campaigning to win second referendum on social media – with even WORSE LIES than before
While Remainers haven’t even got off the starting blocks – a detailed list of anti-EU lies and fake news claiming …
Tackling the Habitat of Far-Right Movements: From This is England to Gab
Guest post from Will Black, anthropologist, journalist and author of Veneer of Civilisation, Psychopathic Cultures, and Beyond the End of the …
Pub chain owner denies using taxpayer money to subsidise wages in public row with DWP over Universal Credit
UPDATE: Both tweets deleted. Looks like this is something the DWP and some employers would rather taxpayers didn’t know about. …
More fake news from mainstream journalists trying to influence Brexit
Interesting to see the Daily Mail’s Brussels correspondent David Churchill continuing the long tradition of Fleet Street journalists prepared to lie …
Theresa May INCREASES taxpayer subsidies for her wealthy mates to go grouse shooting
So Theresa May says there isn’t enough money for doctors, nurses, hospitals, firefighters, so little money that she has had …
Brexiters reveal plans to sell-off NHS hospitals to US firms after Brexit
Leading Brexiter Tories have revealed their plans to allow private US firms to take over NHS hospitals. They are also …
