1 Day Without Us: Let’s Have a Different Conversation About Migration
- January 04, 2018
- by
- Matt
The One Day Without Us campaign came into existence in the autumn of 2016, out of a conversation on Facebook. We were migrants, EU citizens and UK nationals, all of whom were appalled by the shocking increase in anti-migrant hate crime on the streets, by the scapegoating of migrants in the media and on social media, by the cynical disregard for the EU citizens whose lives have been plunged into turmoil as a result of Brexit, and by the “hostile environment” polices enacted by the UK government which have deprived undocumented migrants of the...
Waiting for the Barbarian
- December 19, 2017
- by
- Matt
Anyone familiar with horror films will recognize the following scenario: a group of people are being terrorised by a monster/serial killer/alien. They find a hiding place and fortify it. All their attention is focused on keeping the intruder out. Not until it is too late do they discover that the monster is already inside...
Trump’s Christmas Message
- November 30, 2017
- by
- Matt
This week the Trump non-presidency posted what may well go down in history as some of the weirdest photographs ever taken in the White House, featuring Melania Trump as the spirit of Christmas. One of them shows the First Lady walking with a fixed grin through what looks alarmingly like a giant silver vagina,...
The Gospel According to Jacob Rees-Mogg
- October 03, 2017
- by
- Matt
And so it came to pass that in the year 2017 there was great confusion in the land of Albion, and much weeping and gnashing of teeth amongst the tribe of Tory following the failure of May’s snap election and the pessimistic voices whispering calumnies in the shadows about her future and abilities. And...
Twilight in Brexitland
- September 18, 2017
- by
- Matt
Yesterday evening I shared a horrific post on Facebook about a tetraplegic woman whose disability benefits have just been cancelled, and has just been summoned to a job interview by her local job centre. As shocking as it was, this dreadful decision was a fairly typical example of the cruelty and incompetence that has...
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