Browse > Home / Let's Be Cynical / What On Earth Happened To Good Old Inequality? November 25, 2009 Dan Majestic writes: What on earth happened to good old inequality? How come everyone’s considered equal, even if they don’t make any effort to show any consideration for others? And there’s more on the same subject: how come people, who haven’t done anything worthwhile all their lives, get all the preferential treatment? There you see them, skipping sc... Read Full Story

Browse > Home / Point Of View / On The Politics Of Marriage November 25, 2009 Gren-Hilda Duval de Villeneuve writes: Over the course of this year I have been witnessing what I can only term as a ‘divorce drama’ taking place. Watching, from the outside, the often tedious, always painful instalments delivered to me daily make me question our beliefs about relationships and marriage. This subject is far too complex to even scratch the surface, but I have children of both ... Read Full Story

Browse > Home / Entertainment / The Weird World Of Cinema November 25, 2009 Is it not amazing how people would accept the most ridiculous of things that happen on the big screen? The dialogues that make no sense, the vulgarity, the stupid situations, the two-dimensional characters, the primitive or non-existent story lines and the abysmal acting. That last one has always puzzled me. Bad acting, that is. How on earth do some of the film stars manage to get away with absolutel... Read Full Story

Browse > Home / Breaking news / More Breaking News Items. From The Stirring Trouble Team November 24, 2009 We present more breaking news items. From the Stirring Trouble team. Breaking News: The newly appointed President of Europe, Herman van Rompuy, reveals that he is a sucker for a left-wing orgy with right-wing undertone. I’m all things to all people, he says.Breaking News: European Union’s new foreign policy chief, Baroness Ashton, warns people not to mistake ... Read Full Story

Browse > Home / Let's Be Cynical / I Really Can’t Treat The UN Seriously. Especially With A Frontman Like That November 24, 2009 What is this guy, Ban Ki-Moon, the UN Secretary General, about? Is he for real or what? Should anyone treat him seriously or is he just a stand-up comedian, who comes out before the world media and says funny things, without expecting us to take him seriously? Because I honestly believe that seasoned hacks cannot really treat Ban seriously. I even ... Read Full Story

Browse > Home / Around The World / Why Is Mao Zedong Making A Comeback In China? November 24, 2009 Martin McCauley writes: When the father of Chinese perestroika, the late Deng Xiaoping, had won the struggle to succeed the late communist leader, Mao Zedong, in 1978 he ordered the removal of statues and mementos of the Mao period. Deng wanted to demonstrate that the era of dead pan communism was over. Policy was supposed to be decided not by the whims of the leadership but on ... Read Full Story

Browse > Home / Around The World / A Quick Cynical Glance At Events Around The World. In No Particular Order November 23, 2009 Dan Majestic and Adam Lovejoy write: Few people are holding their breath as the long awaited Chilcot inquiry into the war in Iraq opens this week in Britain. To expect that it would give answers to any of the serious questions about Britain’s involvement in the illegal war would be too much to ask, considering that the current Labour government ... Read Full Story

Browse > Home / Sport / What’s All The Fuss With Thierry Henry’s Handball? All Footballers Cheat November 23, 2009 R.F.Wilson writes: Pardon me for not joining the indignation brigade that has been busy screaming their heads off, demanding a replay of that supposedly ‘fateful’ World Cup qualifying match between France and Irealnd because Theirry Henry had helped to score the decisive goal in injury time with a skilful hand gesture. And let me also discard t... Read Full Story

Browse > Home / Point Of View / A Passionate Stance On Women’s Shoes November 23, 2009 Gren-Hilda Duval de Villeneuve writes: Today, I’m going to tackle a profoundly important and complex subject, that of women’s shoes and the range of conflicting feelings this issue inspires in me. Men’s footwear will have to take a back seat here, as it does not even register a blip on the radar when compared to the abundance, and really quite decadent variety, of women... Read Full Story

Browse > Home / Life In The UK / Ad Men Told To Keep Their Volume Down. Why Stop There? November 22, 2009 Rejoice! Finally, someone in the Broadcasting Committee on Advertising Practice - yes, there is such a committee in Britain and, yes, it monitors TV ads - has realised that there is something seriously wrong with all the adverts on TV, i.e. that the level of sound in them is much louder than in the programmes themselves. You know, when you have to turn the volume down dur... Read Full Story