Entries in the ‘Politics’ Category:

Looking back at 2011

With only 4 more days left until 2012, the web is awash with reviews of the year we’ve just experienced. 2011 has certainly been eventful, so we’ve picked out 5 of the best attempts to make sense of it all… For a look at the stories that were dominating the news month-by-month, check out The [...]

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Kim Jong Il is dead…

Kim Jong Il, totalitarian leader of North Korea, big fan of looking at things, and all-round pantomime villain, has left the land of the living. A nation is mourning the death of their all-powerful dictator – probably a pretty weird thing to come to terms with. But that doesn’t mean we can’t have a jolly [...]

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Jeremy Clarkson makes further progress in mission to offend just about everyone

Unless you’ve been in hibernation this week (not a bad idea, admittedly) you will have seen Jeremy Clarkson’s controversial comments on the BBC’s flagship tea-time magazine show, along with the inevitable torrent of indignation that followed. Let’s take another look at what he said, purely for context of course: Whilst Clarkson’s comments were obviously motivated [...]

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Brilliant politician cock-ups caught on camera

Hopefully you saw on the news earlier this week, in the House of Lords, Baroness Trumpington signalled at Lord King with a two-fingered salute after he commented on her age. This was caught on camera and, naturally, it became an instant hit on YouTube. The Baroness completely denies any intention of giving him the ‘Vs’ [...]

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Political campaign adverts: 5 of the strangest

Tonight, we’ve got some of the most bizarre political campaign adverts ever made for you. So sit back and enjoy the madness. Our first video only dates back a few weeks. Here’s a bit of information to help you make sense of it: Last weekend, Poland’s ruling party held on to power after winning almost [...]

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Steve Coogan vents anger at ‘deplorable’ tabloids

Phone-hacking. Entrapment. Police bribes. Stealing cruise missiles… OK, maybe we got the last one from Tomorrow Never Dies, but there have been some seriously shady things happening at some of Britain’s most widely-read newspapers. The catalogue of criminality, corruption and conspiratorial goings on at News International continues to grow in what has been one of [...]

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David Cameron named Villain of the Year

Poke fun at David Cameron with a political t-shirt.

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