Will the real Michael Crockart please stand up?

Yes, yes, Conservative MP and Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt was called a cunt on radio today not once but twice and it was hilarious. But that’s not nearly the funniest political madness that’s been on the radio waves today, oh no. Michael Crockart, Lib Dem MP for Edinburgh West and parliamentary private secretary to Scottish [...]

Cowardly Cable cancels Oxford visit

 One of the many treacherous Lib Dems in David Cameron’s Cabinet is  Business Secretary Vince Cable. A vociferous supporter of the Tory cuts, he fits right in with his posh new pals. Today, Cable was meant to visit Oxford University as part of a series of seminars being given on ‘Lessons in Being an Evil [...]

theft, vigilantism and the fetishisation of public humiliation

On Thursday, a group of five people attempted to make off with a load of watches from a posh London jewellery shop after smashing the window with a sledgehammer. They were foiled not by police, or shop security – but by a mob of more than 50 passers by and shoppers who jumped in and [...]

Would you rather be: haggard and old, soaked in semen or a sexy revolutionary artist?

The Guardian has today highlighted a collection of postcards designed to be auctioned of to raise money for the Feminism in London conference which takes place in a few weeks. The conference is organised by the fairly radical London Feminist Network, and is sounding like it could be quite good, featuring workshops on feminist self [...]

Consent in exchange for money is not consent at all.

Yesterday, the Women’s Support Project and Zero Tolerance revealed the findings of their latest study regarding the reality of prostitution and pornography in Scotland. One of their most hard hitting statistics is that not only that 90% women involved in prostitution in Scotland want to get out of it immediately, but that they had also [...]

Libya will stop black people coming to Europe… for a price.

You may have noticed that the leader of Libya, Colonel Gaddafi, has been on a state visit to Italy over the past few days, where he has been generally making a nuisance of himself by trying to convert Italian women to Islam, and attempting to charge the EU  five billion euros in exchange for preventing [...]

Fuck you, American Apparel.

American Apparel was founded in 1989 as a wholesale tshirt supplier. They opened their first retail store in 2003, and started selling to the public. It was instantly a huge success. Melanie Rickey, fashion editor of Grazia magazine, said “”It became very big, very quickly. Everybody was wearing it, and I mean everyone: high-fashion kids, [...]

We smashed the banks – no, really, we did.

Some of SSY’s roving reporters are back to civilisation to give YOU all the latest news from climate camp… After an epic amount of pushing, we stormed RBS headquarters this afternoon. Delicious molasses bombs were thrown, windows were smashed and there was a lot of scuffling with the police. Bear in mind that today was [...]

Rotten by name and by nature.

Johnny Rotten is an arsehole. He betrayed his punk roots long ago and is now nothing more than a sad old man flogging things and selling his soul for kudos from capitalism. He recently said: I showed what I can do with butter, right?  Eighty-five percent increase in sales. I’m very proud of them Country [...]

Asylum seekers now free to go to Kylie concerts and drink multi-coloured cocktails, yay!

Could asylum seekers BE any more fabulous?!? Not only do they manage to escape their own countries after fleeing terrible persecution, they manage to make a new life for themselves here despite the British government persecuting them just as much – as well as managing to royally piss off the right wing press on an [...]