Clowns are Cops and Cops are Clowns

Remember those cops dressed as clowns who were kicking about a few years ago? Well it turns out apparently that one of them was….a cop! More details emerge every day in relation to “Lynn Watson,” an undercover cop who infiltrated the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army. It comes hot on the heels of the tale [...]

Posted by lovebug on January 27th, 2011 | 11 Comments Posted in Uncategorized

No Room at the Inn for Homos

Regular news readers may be overcome with a sense of gay ja vu yesterday at the news that yet another “member of the hospitality community” thinks that the Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2007 which outlaws discrimination against gay people doesn’t apply the them. Homophobic hoteliers Peter and Hazelmary Bull, owners of the Chymorvah Hotel, [...]

Posted by lovebug on January 19th, 2011 | 8 Comments Posted in Uncategorized

Jingle Bells, Vodafone Smells

Saturday 19th marked another landmark in the now epic battle against corporate tax evasion. Dubbed “pay day” by UK uncut the day saw around 55 different actions in towns and cities across the UK targeting big business fraudsters including Vodafone, the Arcadia Group (Topshop, Dorothy Perkins, BHS etc), Boots and HSBC. In Glasgow around 25 [...]

Posted by lovebug on December 20th, 2010 | No Comments Posted in Uncategorized

Bow-Tie wearing toffs have never had it so good

Telling the truth has no place in the ConDem coalition. It seems Lord Young has been sacked for defending and explaining government policy. In a rare statement of honesty Young outlined the logic for spending cuts, “The fact that we seemed to be going through such big cuts really meant that the pound was saved.” [...]

Posted by lovebug on November 19th, 2010 | No Comments Posted in Uncategorized

Dirty Des: He's got the X-Factor

As one of the SSY’s many resident “manginas” I often feel too ashamed of my gender to discuss such weighty topics as feminism (beside which someone below did it better…and it’s basically women’s work).  However, early this morning while eating a burger and flicking through a weighty broadsheet I came across an editorial which got [...]

Posted by lovebug on September 25th, 2010 | 4 Comments Posted in Uncategorized

America to the Rescue!

Why is the Lockerbie bomber still alive? This week Senator Robert Menendez, Chair of the Congressional Inquiry into why someone (or indeed everyone) isn’t dead yet announced plans to send a team of yankee investigators to Scotland.   This we can understand as it clear that protocol has been breached on this matter.  When someone in [...]

Posted by lovebug on July 31st, 2010 | 3 Comments Posted in Uncategorized

and over to John for the latest CRIME!

What is news and what’s the point of it? It doesn’t seem to be about education, providing insight into global events or speaking truth to power.  These days it’s not even really news at all…it’s just crime. Yesterday, a day where as far as we can tell precisely zero new developments in the latest media [...]

Posted by lovebug on July 8th, 2010 | No Comments Posted in Uncategorized