Migrant Hotels – The Truth Behind the Lies
If you’ve spent any time propping up a bar in Britain recently, you’ll have heard the gospel according to pint-fuelled patriots: asylum seekers are living in luxury hotels, being served three-course dinners, each armed with a shiny new iPad and a bottomless pint of lager all on your hard-earned taxes. Of course, none of this is true. But when did truth ever get in the way of a story told between mouthfuls of pork scratchings? Who’s ...
Leaving the ECHR: Britain’s Suicide Note
Yes, technically a government can leave the European Convention on Human Rights. You just give six months’ notice, like quitting a gym membership. But instead of cancelling a spin class, you’re walking away from seventy years of legal stability and dropping yourself into the same company as Belarus and Russia. Not exactly the global alliance anyone sensible is queuing up to join. Peace and Devolution in the Firing Line The consequen...
Flag-Waving Warehouse Operative Dies in Roundabout Tryst Gone Wrong
A Hampshire man has been killed after what police described as a “tragic and confusing interaction” with a roundabout late on Saturday night. The deceased, Wayne Lexley-Yannon, 42, was struck by a lorry shortly after leaving JD Wetherspoons, where witnesses say he had been loudly explaining geopolitics to anyone within three tables. A self-described “patriot” and unemployed warehouse operative, Lexley-Yannon was reportedly under the ...
Discovering the Other War: How a TV Drama Opened My Eyes to Australia’s Forgotten POWs
Like many people with a strong interest in World War II, my knowledge has always been firmly rooted in Europe. I could talk at length about the Eastern Front, D-Day, the Blitz, Dunkirk, and the fall of Berlin. I’d read countless books, watched endless documentaries, and even walked the beaches of Normandy trying and failing to make sense of the enormity of it all. But, embarrassingly, I knew next to nothing about Australia’s role in the ...
Outrage as Man in Union Jack Suit is Denied Entrance to Mosque
Demonstrations broke out yesterday after part-time conspiracy theorist and general psychopath, Frank Nuthouse, announced he had been "violated, disrespected and cancelled" after being politely refused entry to a mosque yesterday whilst wearing a head-to-toe Union Jack suit and cradling a dented can of Special Brew. Cultural Warrior Frank, who describes himself as a “Cultural warrior for weal Britain,” was reportedly attempting to "do ...