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Britain’s death by a thousand cuts revealed in union’s dossier of destruction

News Source:http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/britains-death-thousand-cuts-revealed-1956958 The appalling human cost of David Cameron’s savage cutbacks are revealed today in a damning dossier. Showing how the Tory-led Coalition is causing misery to millions, the report also exposes the damaging legacy that will be left for communities throughout Britain. The dossier – compiled by the UK’s biggest public sector union, Unison […]

Woolwich and Terror: We Must Resist Having Our Enemies Constructed For Us

An astonishing, unprovoked knife attack has taken place on the streets of Britain.  Woolwich? No, Birmingham.  Just weeks ago, 75 year old Mohammed Saleem was butchered with a machete just yards from his front door as he returned home from mosque – in what police believe was a racially motivated murder.  The fact that this […]

Children Of The Night: three films about early 80s Goth nightlife in the UK

Some Goths, chillin’, the 80s Ah, if only time machines had been invented already. We would each be free to zip back and visit the desired nightclub/live venue/social scene of our choice, to revel in a world we can now only read, or dream, about. I’ve thought about this before, of course, and most of […]

Margaret Thatcher funeral: Growing anger at £10m ceremonial send-off fit for a Queen

She will go to her grave to the sound of bitter protests and anger at the fact the £10million funeral will be paid for by hard-pressed taxpayers Final goodbye: Margaret Thatcher will be given a funeral with ceremonial honours When more than a million people lined the route of the Queen Mother’s funeral, they were […]

‘David’s new single is so tired. It takes me back to when he was flirting with Nazi Germany’: Ex wife’s deeply personal critique the star may NOT want to read Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2276337/David-Bowie-Ex-wifes-deeply-personal-critique-star-NOT-want-read.html#ixzz2M0FMq3u3 Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

They were the exotic first couple of glam rock, dressed alike in silk kimonos with bleached hair, Angie and David Bowie shocked Britain in the Seventies with tales of cross-dressing, drugs and bisexual liaisons. But their often stormy life together informed the classic Bowie characters Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin sane and the Thin White Duke. Their […]

Britain’s Nazi Punk Scene Is Alive and Limping

Bald fascists with guitars are still playing awful, hateful music in Britain’s pubs.

Iran legally, religiously obliged to be nuclear-free-foreign ministry-Rt

­A fatwa, or religious decree, issued by Iran’s supreme leader prohibiting the assembly of nuclear weapons is legally binding for the government, Iran’s Foreign Ministry said ahead of possible progress in talks over the country’s nuclear program. “There is nothing higher than the exalted supreme leader’s fatwa to define the framework for our activities in […]

Facebook charges $100 to message Mark Zuckerberg

January 11, 2013 Facebook members are being asked to pay $100 for their messages to reach the inbox of the social network’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg. The charge is part of a test of a system designed by Facebook to both raise some revenue and reduce spam. It was first introduced in December, with a charge […]

On the brink: Britain’s ‘alternative social service’

NEWS SOURCE :   http://www.guardian.co.uk By Patrick Butler Legendary 1960’s charity Release is Britain’s only specialist provider of legal advice to drug users. But can it survive in the age of spending cuts and “big society”? Release, one of Britain’s most iconic charities, associated indelibly with 1960’s counter-culture and the hippy underground, and in its heyday […]