Bristling Badger

I dunno, you wait ages for a speaking engagement then three come along at once. I'm talking about Britain's political se...

Some of the women survivors of long-term relationships with undercover police are back in court next week. Although very similar things happ...

I've been following the undercover policing scandal closely since it began and, as longer term readers may suspect, I've got a perso...

Just to point out that I've got a Twitter account, @MerrickBadger. It has notifications on the increasingly rare occasions when I publ...

Analogy of the week has to go to Gary Younge in his piece about immigration and job losses. Because two things are correlated does not me...

Dorian Cope has relaunched her On This Deity site! I say now what I said when she did the beta version: This is what I find most encoura...

The internet is a loud and busy enough place as it is, even before we consider the intrusive adverts. Just like the way TV adverts are loude...

I recently launched a site devoted to Tom Robinson's pioneering protest song Glad To Be Gay , which made me dig out his debut album Powe...

When not being a freeroving performance poet or a raging nuisance to carbon-criminals, the estimable Danny Chivers is a proper pencil-chewi...

In these days of civil partnerships, equal ages of consent and whatnot it's easy to get the impression that the struggle for gay liberat...

A year ago, as Israeli forces rained military death upon Gaza, we blogged, we wrote emails, some of us even took to the streets. And all of ...

You may not know anything about the issue, but I bet you *reckon* something. So why not tell us what you reckon? Let us enjoy the full majes...

As the Copenhagen talks to create a successor to the Kyoto Protocol loom closer, the imperative for action grows. On the 17th and 18th Octob...

William Morris' 1890 novel News From Nowhere is that thing I have a deep love for - a blunt and blatant rant against a social evil give...

Last week, when it still seemed like Nick Griffin was going to go to a do at Buckingham Palace, the excellent Five Chinese Crackers poste...

This is what I find most encouraging about the writing trades: they allow mediocre people who are patient and industrious to revise their st...

One of the things that surprised people about last year's Camp for Climate Action against Kingsnorth coal power station was the inclusi...

In writing that piece about Mark Lynas and nuclear power, there was a something he said about the Chernobyl incident that resonated with m...

Corporate Watch have published their new report, Techno-fixes: A Critical Guide to Climate Change Technologies . I've had a bit of a han...

A while back I recommended Hush The Many 's single Revolve , just writing off the top of my head, saying Fucking hell, this band are th...