United Kingdom

Content about events and struggles in what is now the United Kingdom.

You can stick your Diamond Jubilee up your Royal backsides!

Plans for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee have been announced. Massive cost to working people, parties,…

Academies, Free Schools, and destroying national pay agreements

As expected, academies and 'Free' Schools were much less likely to have closed on the November 30th…

The elderly need to start taking responsibility for themselves

The elderly need to start taking responsibility for themselves says Andrew Lansley. There was me…

Liverpool councillor Joe Anderson is scum

Liverpool council leader makes unfounded allegations of violence against protestors.

The great democracy swindle

A brief look at British parliamentary democracy, and how it is rigged from a grass roots level.

Langdon school on strike in Newham

Teachers in Newham, east London, are on strike over management bullying and workload issues.

£16,000 a year to polish Prince Andrew’s ‘objets d’art’.

Prince Andrew has just advertised for a new maid. Any takers?

Kelvin McKenzie's fake apology

Kelvin McKenzie the former editor of the Sun has apologised for remarks that he and his paper made about the people of Liverpool following the…

Wilshaw's war on teachers

Not enough that he could be 'judge, jury and executioner' to teachers from January, Michael Wilshaw wants unions in on the act now too.

It is time for my class to declare war

Gideon Osborne has announced the latest front in the governments class war. As far as I am concerned, the time for any kind of negotiation is…

Improved offer? I do not f*****g think so!

A brief look at the governments improved pension offer.

Unilever screws workers out of their pensions

Unilever, one of the biggest and most profitable companies in the world are scrapping their pension scheme. For the first time in the company's…