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Today is International Working Women’s Day, a day to celebrate women and support them in emancipating themselves from patriarchy. A new blog has launched which aims to be a Gender Obsessed Discussion Group. This post discusses the disgusting sexist abuse from a debate at Glasgow University Union. Having never went to it, I was unaware […]

Martha Payne, a nine year girl, has been blogging about the dinners available at her school. The school is some bizarre crackdown on attacks on their services have decided that she is now banned from taking photos of the meals. Obviously this kind of thing never backfires which is why as of right now the […]

There have been a surprisingly small number of articles about the recount taking place for the council elections in one ward in Glasgow. The media coverage has been poor with bloggers picking up the slack. See for example the commentary by Lallands Peat Worrier Well, lets look at the story by the BBC The result […]

A friend recently posted a video to their Facebook wall which is a political advert for gay marriage. It’s excellent on a number of counts, mainly because it’s for a great cause (declare bias early) but also unlike some political ads it’s not preachy and with very few words spoken throughout makes it’s point well. […]

An article about the recent tragic death of 4 miners highlights the issue of lapse Health and Safety that led to their deaths. When you read a ridiculous article in the crap tabloid press about tabloid health and safety gone mad the majority of the time it’s nothing to do with health and safety it’s […]

I used to keep up with what was happening in Israel and Palestine quite a bit. Over the past couple of years I haven’t been able to keep up as much in what is going on. A couple of months ago I went to a show by Mark Thomas, he decided to walk the wall […]

A while before the last election I signed some petition about supporting Fairer Votes. This has somehow transferred into me supporting AV, so I get emails from the Yes2AV campaign. Most of these are really pathetic and concentrate on attacking the No2AV campaign. When they are not attacking the No2AV campaign they are talking about […]

Does anyone else see it or is it just me?

Originally written December 2011 To quote the Hives Hate To Say I Told You So. Tommy Sheridan has been convicted of perjury. To his acolytes this is a surprise. Even the ones who know he did and also committed perjury on his behalf. To anyone paying attention this was inevitable. To those involved in these […]

Note: this post was sitting in my drafts from February 2009. No idea why I didn’t publish at the time. The RIAA (Recording Industry of America) has had a potted history of cases against individual alleged file sharers. They have sued children, people who don’t own computers and dead people. Their only courtroom victory was […]