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 ...
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
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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 ...
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 ...
I hear plenty of people tearing strips off the NHS. Yes, it has its flaws. It’s overstretched, underfunded, and sometimes feels like it runs on goodwill and duct tape—but here’s the truth. My recent experience was brilliant.
It all started in spring when I went deaf in my left ear. Like any self-respecting British man in denial of mortality, I panicked. Convinced it was a an electrical fault in my head or a brain spider, I booked an ...
