From my Huffington Post blog. It’s taken me a while to digest George Osborne’s announcement in the Autumn Statement. The government decided to put the £15m tax raised from putting VAT on tampons and sanitary products towards funding women’s shelters and refuges. Groups like Sisters Uncut have been campaigning heavily and quite rightly for better … Continue reading
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Happy New Year from Recognise the Spin
In 2015 we will undoubtedly see British politics move away from the two party system that has dominated for so long. Over the last year it’s been the UK’s turn to see the rise of its own far right party UKIP. We now match our European and US contemporaries with a faux rebel party, that … Continue reading