Over the holiday season, I spent time with an uncle in the U.K who is decidedly more right wing than I am. He supported Brexit, and views liberal pc culture as one of the biggest problems in British society. My uncle is a highly intelligent man, a professor, lecturer, and ...read more
Over the past few weeks, Paris and France at large have been rocked by the gillet jaunes ('yellow vests'), who have taken to the streets. The protestors were ostensibly motivated by French President Emmanuel Macron's fuel tax, that puts disproportionate stress on rural French ...read more
Having satirized British politics (The Thick of It/In the Loop) and American politics (the multiple Emmy-award-winning Veep), Armando Iannucci has now brought his hammer - and sickle - down on Mother Russia in The Death of Stalin, a farce that not only lives up to his previous ...read more
(Satire) Today, Michael Fallon, UK’s Defence Secretary, resigned his position amidst a growing scandal involving allegations of sexual harassment some stemming as far back as fifteen years. While no formal allegations have been made, Fallon tendered his resignation to British ...read more
Today, global politics is in turmoil with several dangerous heads of major states actively trying to increase the likelihood of conflict. As Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Rodrigo Duerte and Kim Jong Un ramp up rhetoric against other countries, their own citizens, and even ...read more
Standing between the complete break down of the international framework that has kept world peace for the past 70 years is one man -- Emmanuel Macron, the independent centrist who made it to the second round of the French presidential election this past weekend. Macron will be ...read more
Nigel Farage, the former leader of the quasi-fascist UK Independence Party (UKIP) will be forever known as the man who helped ensure his country left the European Union, then ran away when the shit hit the fan. Literally days after the referendum results were released, the ...read more
If you thought the fallout from the Brexit debacle in the UK could not get any worse, two of the leading voices of the Brexit movement have now abandoned ship, abdicating responsibility for the gigantic mess they have created. First, Boris Johnson abruptly quit the conservative ...read more
Andrew Marr's interview of Michael Gove on the BBC this weekend was akin to watching a rabbit get skinned alive, roasted and eaten. From the get go, Marr tore into Gove, the pro Brexit conservative running to lead his party after betraying his longtime friend Boris Johnson, ...read more
The Guardian's Jonathan Freedland lets the architects of the Brexit crisis Michael Gove and Boris Johnson have it with both barrels: Just look at what this act of vandalism has wrought. There has been a 500% increase in the number of hate crimes reported, as migrants are taunted ...read more
The on going drama in the wake of the Brexit vote in Britain has now quite literally reached House of Cards proportions. In what has to be one of the most bizarre days in modern British history, key Brexit proponent and heir apparent to David Cameron Boris Johnson shockingly ...read more
As a big fan of Matt Taibbi's excellent journalism over the years, I was dismayed to read his latest Rolling Stone column on the Brexit debacle in Europe that was, quite frankly, shockingly ignorant. Taibbi's piece, sardonically titled "The Reaction to Brexit is The Reason ...read more
The pro Brexit politicians who whipped up fear and stoked divisions in Britain are being exposed as charlatans who lied to voters about what leaving Europe would mean. Boris Johnson, the poster boy for pro Brexiters and the betting favorite to replace David Cameron as Prime ...read more
Leave it to Sarah Palin to utterly mangle the Brexit debacle in Europe by not only falsely equating it with American independence, but adding a completely insane conspiracy theory about a 'One World Government'. Palin posted this latest little rant on her facebook page in the ...read more
After sending a bleak warning to his fellow Brits last week not to leave the European Union, John Oliver returned in the wake of the 'Brexit' to lament the decision that has screwed not only the British economy, but the entire global financial system. Oliver went after the U.K. ...read more
After a series of unbelievably stupid tweets in the wake of the EU referendum in Britain, Donald Trump laid this nugget of wisdom for his followers on why Hillary Clinton would be a "disaster" as a leader: Translation: Hillary Clinton predicated an outcome of an extremely close ...read more
We open in a British living room. BREXIT is talking to his wife EU. BREXIT: Fuck you and fuck this. You and the kids are holding me back, man! I'm a talent. Maybe I'll start a band, man. I've still got IT. I'm outahere on my new motor bike and I'm gonna FUCK ME SOME CHICKS! With ...read more
If anyone thought the Brexit was a good idea, a cursory glance at the state of the global economy and political climate today should be enough to dispel any notion that this was Britain's 'Independence Day'. It wasn't -- the Brexit is going to be a disaster, and in our ...read more
The image of Britain as an open, diverse, and modern nation now lies in tatters as voters decided to leave the European Union last night and plunge the nation into the unknown. With (as of writing this) an almost 1 million vote lead, Britons who wanted out of the EU voiced their ...read more
Britain may well vote to leave the European Union this week -- a move widely criticized by the international community and the British prime minister himself. In a passionate and hilarious plea to the British public, John Oliver called for sanity and dismissed right wing ...read more
