Mild Subversion

Where are they now? The interview!

Transcript of a video interview conducted by Robert Hanrott with Malakbel, the ancient Palmyran Sun God, and Aglibol, brother of Malakbel and God of the Moon.

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What the foreign tenant should do to fulfill the obligations set out in the standard lease of a London flat.

Taking that lease seriously!

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Welsh group lays claim to the whole of London!

The trick is knowing the right questions to ask!

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Caveat Emptor:Two innocents go to a British cricket match!

The trick is knowing the right questions to ask!

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Do they truly have American interests at heart? Know who the bad people are!

Top neocon think tanks and their publications

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The partition of Iraq

We need an international settlement in the Middle East.

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Arabs and Israelis out! Real owners in!

How one family can lay claim to all the territory around Jerusalem.

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The Ethiopian Taxi Driver

The thoughts of a migrant from the third world.

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Got a problem? Contact us!

How it takes half an hour to fill in an email form to get some help from a computer software company that communicates in Dutch.

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Independence for England!

May 2007 marked the 300th Anniversary of the Union of England and Scotland. It’s time for independence for both countries!

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Two good policies and you're out!

Hey, Democrats! Do something for the country. Rein in the military-industrial complex.

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Reduce those mail deliveries!

In the spirit of subversion, we encourage everyone to reduce the amount of unwanted mail and fight the advertisers.

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Warning: Gravity is Only a Theory!

by Ellery Schempp, a member of the American Humanist Association and Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

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What political cataclysm?

The outcome of the mid-term elections was tame in comparison to what it ought to have been.

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A Wolfowitz in Sheep’s Clothing?

A cautionary tale about the on-going efforts to downsize, "reform", and even eliminate all United Nations agencies.

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Hubris

* FREE! Win a free, heavily edited copy of the latest US national intelligence estimate if you can identify which country this fairy tale refers to.

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Fighting the War on Error

Make the "service" economy work!

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The Book of Provocations

A startling discovery has recently been made in an undisclosed location on the Dead Sea. A set of ancient scrolls has been unearthed, so sensitive that the Israeli Government has tried to suppress it. A careless rabbi fortunately left copies on a bus to Haifa.

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The Nanny State

Help the Aged, in conjunction with Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London, recently issued a leaflet entitled How warm is your Room? The leaflet incorporates a crude thermometer, and against various degrees of heat are the words Too Warm (over 75 deg.), O.K, Cool, and Cold (61 deg.). It is a well-meaning and breathtakingly patronizing attempt to tell elderly people whether they feel warm or cold and whether or not to increase or decrease the heating in their homes. In the spirit of what we thought at first was a joke, we offer a further collection of tips for the over 70s.

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An email exchange between Rush Limbaugh and Elmer G. Ganz of Ohio, June 11th, 2006

And they vote for these clowns!

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What is the point of democracy?

Government for all the people!

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Endtime: a Tale of Nuts

A fairy tale for our time. The hazel nut in Celtic lore was equated with wisdom and poetic inspiration. A legend tells the tale of a nut tree that grew by a sacred pool. The tree shed its nuts into the pool. They were eaten by a family of salmon. The number of bright spots on the salmon, it is said, indicated the number of nuts it had eaten and the depth of the wisdom it had thereby absorbed.

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Productivity: Are American Economists Deluding Themselves?

What many corporations have quietly effected is a massive transfer of time, effort, stress and frustration onto the final customer. Intentional or not, this transfer is not captured in the persistent drumbeat about the productivity of the American economy.

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Shock Top Secret letter rocks US Intelligence. Iranians involvement suspected.

Email intercepted from Saddam Hussein

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Saddam Hussein's November 2004 email to his followers.

Released under the Freedom of Information Act.

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In praise of the Dilettante

Why we need more inspired generalists

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Sound Science

Science used to be seen as a rational and definitive activity, the great outcome of the Enlightenment, a passport to a better life for all the world's inhabitants. More recently it has been used as a malleable weapon in the war to protect commercial interests and to buttress the claims of the religious right.

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What is the Point?

Long hours. Few benefits. Inadequate holidays. Small pensions. Little worker protection. A degrading environment. A widening gap between rich and poor. Declining health care. Increasing self-absorption and less community spirit. Is this what we want from globalization, free trade, privatization and the untrammeled power of the corporation?

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Apparatchika

A fairy tale about the return to a barely noticed medievalism

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Corruption

If President Clinton is caught with his trousers down it triggers impeachment. However, if Vice-President Cheney arranges for his old company to get the best contracts in Iraq that's just fine. Or is it?

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Dry Cleaning in the 21st Century

A story about retail technology run mad

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Mrs. Meanwell

A fairy tale about naivete and religious violence.

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Margaret Thatcher for Americans

An appraisal of Margaret Thatcher, and what it was like living under her rule.

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Lord Adonis

The British Minister for Schools is busy dreaming up fancy titles for himself, but is doing the country's education little good.

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Blair Acrostic

A clever acrostic by Thomas Braun, an Oxford don. He wrote it in December 2001 before war against Iraq.

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Mr. Greenspan

Mr. Greenspan, Chairman of the US Federal Reserve, is supposed to be independent of party politics, holding the ring for the nation. He has betrayed our trust.

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It Comes at a Price

We are paying a high price for so-called "liberal" economics, privatization and barely restrained capitalism

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I Did it All Myself

We all depend on each other. But tell that to the government-haters

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Moral Values

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NineteenEightyFour

George Owell was right after all. It just happened twenty years later than he predicted.

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The Arabian Nights, with Dubya Baba and the Forty Thieves: A Musical in 4 Acts

The true, never-previously-revealed story of Bush's War Against Iraq, and how The-Greatest-Country-Ever-in-the-History-of-the-Universe fought back against the imperialist neo-cons and their deeply ignorant hangers-on.

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Email Correspondence from Saddam Hussein

Unknown to the general public, Saddam Hussein has had access to a computer and email and likes to send occasional messages to some of the people who have done so much to support him over the years. Here are some samples, sent to Donald Rumsfeld and others, with copies to me.

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Alas! Poor Britain

The number of times people have asked "What was Tony Blair thinking about when he supported Bush?" has now risen to 58,781,000.

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The Outing of Jack Kelley

Did you know that American journalists brag about the thoroughness of their training and their research? Apparently, it is so much better than in other countries.

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The Poisoner

Heard of hexavalent chromium? It was dumped by manufacturers in New Jersey, poisoning the environment. No one was brought to task. A small illustration of the effects of unrestrained, unaccountable capitalism.

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Getting back to good old Medieval Values

Congress is rapidly coming under the influence of Bible literalists and believers in The Rapture. As never before we are in desperate need of a rational, intelligent God.

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Cinderella

Americans like to think of themselves as individualists, plowing their own furrows, seldom following the herd. But this doesn't appear to be the case in the theatre. Another illusion demolished.