Nigel Farage ‘defended’ by far-right group using armoured land rover
(not satire – it’s the UKIP!) Neo-Nazi organisation Britain First has tweeted a picture of what they describe as an …
Category Archives: cynicism
Cameron’s Britain: 7-year old cancer patients on foodbank handouts
(not satire – it’s Cameron’s Britain!) There was good news today after bad local publicity pushed the DWP to reinstate …
Cameron’s reckless decision to cut coastguards causes dangerous grounding of chemical tanker
(not satire – it’s the UK today!) The Cameron government’s reckless decision to cut coastguard stations by half is already leaving our …
How wealthy landowners are destroying Britain’s wild birds – and getting away with it
(not satire – it’s the UK today!) Britain’s wealthy landowners are secretly waging war on Britain’s rarest wild birds in …
BBC claims “incorrect” Salmond report not “intentional”
(not satire – it’s the BBC!) Hmm! The BBC has admitted that a report by its political editor Nick Robinson on …
UK contract to help train the Saudi Prison Service with their floggings and beheadings
(not satire – it’s the UK today!) In the light of Saudi Arabia’s decision to publicly flog a blogger a …
11-year old criminal tells court that bankers are his role model (not satire!)
(not satire – it’s the UK today!) An 11-year-old boy in Shepton Mallet – found guilty on numerous charges including violence, …
Russia bans transgender people from driving (not satire!)
(not satire – it’s Putin’s Russia!) It’s one of those headlines so appalling it’s hard to believe it’s not satire. …
Meet Ebenezer Scrooge 2014: sacking people is “great fun”
(not satire – it’s the UK today) Over a hundred and seventy years after Dickens published a Christmas Carol, meet Ebenezer Scrooge …
Terminal cancer patients now expected to attend work interviews or lose welfare support
(not satire) From Charlotte Ryan: “I have terminal cancer, my prognosis is 0-3 years and I was diagnosed in March …
BBC QT audience member who attacked Russell Brand is UKIP MEP’s brother
(not satire – it’s the BBC!) I’ve written before about how the BBC seems to be encouraging UKIP activists to pretend …
Dark threats from Daily Mail after I dare to complain about one of their articles
(not satire – it’s the UK press!) Surprise surprise. The Daily Mail have written to me rejecting my complaint that …
If you’re not shocked by these facts about our firefighters, you don’t understand them
(not satire – it’s the Cameron government!) In 2011, the Cameron government decided that ……. Firefighters will only get their full …
Child abuse victims blast Theresa May for “lack of transparency” and “manipulations”
(not satire – it’s the UK today) Survivors of institutional child abuse have written an extraordinary letter to the Home Secretary …
WE need a bill to stop people like Saatchi making fortunes from harmful things like cigarettes
(not satire – it’s the UK today!) Lord Saatchi thinks he’s found something to blame for the sad death of his …
Labour 3 points behind the Tories? No – 3 points ahead actually.
(not satire – it’s the UK press!) Just about everybody in the press from the BBC to the Guardian to …
The Daily Mail lied about Ed Miliband’s feminist T-shirt being made in a sweatshop
(not satire – it’s the Daily Mail!) Turns out the Daily Mail got it wrong when it claimed the feminist T-shirt …
The return of Dickensian Britain: 90,000 children to face Christmas without a home
(not satire – it’s the UK today!) The number of homeless families has almost doubled during the last 3 years of …
Why are documents relating to VIP sex crimes being kept secret until 2056?
(not satire – it’s the UK today!) Allegations of sex crimes by leading members of the establishment – including paedophilia …
Lib Dems ban locking up children of migrants – but allow locking up of British children
(not satire – it’s the Lib Dems!) The Lib Dems have often boasted that one of their achievements in the …
UK government shuts down free speech with threats of jail (tabloid newspapers exempted)
(not satire – it’s the UK today!) When government ministers or members of the establishment talk about free speech, they …
Read the suppressed report into botched NHS operations by private company
(not satire – it’s the UK today!) An NHS hospital decided not to release the findings of a report into …
Lib Dem voice of the year: “Lord Freud was right” and “motivated by compassion”
(not satire – it’s the Lib Dems!) Lib Dems love Sam Bowman. In fact, Liberal Democrat members are so fond of …
UKIP candidate starved 260 sheep and lambs to death
(not satire – it’s the UKIP!) A UKIP parliamentary candidate has been found guilty of starving to death over 260 …
Anti-cycling lobbyist to chair meeting which will decide funding for cycling super highways
(not satire – it’s the UK today!) Here’s a staggering conflict of interest which has gone quietly unnoticed. On November …
Child abuse cover up? Witness statements sent by unregistered post and “opened”
(not satire – it’s the UK today!) There’s an important official inquiry under way at the moment into allegations of …
Lib Dem strange logic: bedroom tax will “encourage people to look for work”
(not satire – it’s the Lib Dems!) In a desperate attempt to win votes, the Lib Dems are now pretending …
See a leaked draft copy of the Tories’ proposed UK Bill of Rights
(satire?) Exclusive to Pride’s Purge: a leaked draft copy of the Tories’ proposed UK Bill of Rights: Because when Tories …
This is the UK today. Be afraid.
(not satire) Just a few years ago, newspaper headlines like these would have been spoofs, making fun of the UK …
Cabinet minister complains Lynton Crosby now running the UK instead of Cameron
(not satire – it;’s the Tories!) Cameron is so desperate to win the next election he hired an Australian called …
