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, [...]

Benefits "doctors" to force disabled on to the dole

From the Benefits and Work newsletter: “Thousands will lose benefits as harsher medical approved Tens of thousands of claimants facing losing their benefit on review, or on being transferred from incapacity benefit, as plans to make the employment and support allowance (ESA) medical much harder to pass are approved by the secretary of state for [...]

tesco: every little bit of anti-youth prejudice helps

Young people are lazy, illiterate, untidy, useless and have an ‘attitude problem’, one of the most highly-paid people in the country revealed yesterday to a conference of supermarket executives. Lucy Neville-Rolf, who earned £1.6 million last year in her job as an executive director of Tesco, blames the ‘education system’ for its failings to create [...]

Islamogeddon cancelled.

Anjem Choudary in happier times Fundamentalist nutjob Anjem Choudary’s bottled it. After a week of hysteria in the British press over a planned Islamist march through Wootton Bassett, he has cancelled the demo – as many already predicted he would do. Choudary previously claimed to be organising a march for Shariah Law in London before [...]

Swiss ban minarets.

This poster was used by the anti-Minaret campaign in Switzerland Switzerland eh, the most peaceful country in the world – four hundred years of brotherly love and all they produced was a cuckoo clock and an overdraft for Pablo Escobar. Unfortunately today it looks like Switzerland isn’t as nice and neutral as folk thought it [...]

Scottish Defence League routed in Glasgow.

Image by John Lanigan Almost two months of organising against the Scottish incarnation of the fascist English Defence League paid off yesterday – the SDL were outnumbered 50 to 1 by anti-fascist demonstrators, unable to march and spent most of the day kettled in a pub in Glasgow. Earlier fears of the SDL marching on [...]

Harriet Harpersons war against men stalled! Yay!

If you fancy going mental and murdering your wife or girlfriend this weekend if shes been sleeping with someone else, but are scared you might face some significant jail time, breathe a sigh of relief as the Lords have sunk a bill that would have stopped men who kill their spouses getting away with a [...]

Tesco vs Schoolkids.

Every little bit of anti-youth prejudice helps Tesco in Silverburn recently limited the number of schoolkids allowed to go into their shop at the same time, and has spied on them when they’re in there like kleptomaniac nazi war criminals. Chelsea Toner reports for Leftfield below, Silverburn Tesco are pleased to observe the rapid drop [...]