The AV Campaigns – Highlighting What Is Wrong With Politics

With a couple of weeks to go until the May 5th referendum both the “Yes” and “No” brigades are in full electioneering swing. There are “Party Political” style broadcasts on TV, and leaflets going through every door telling everyone and their dog what is wrong with the other’s system. Am I the only one that [...]

Does Anyone Still Believe The Coalition Is Doing The Right Thing?

First of all, Happy New Year to all my readers, hope you had a great time and best of luck for the year ahead. January 1st 2011 saw the rise in fuel duty (unchanged by George Osborne in his emergency budget after the election). The 0.76p rise in fuel duty, combined with a VAT rise [...]

Anger in the US as Islamic building is planned two blocks from Ground Zero

From local and national news to a global debate. When President Barack Obama defended the controversial plans to build a 13-story Islamic centre and mosque just two blocks from Ground Zero, the issue became worldwide news.

Winter Chaos – Why People Shouldn’t Over-react

Over the course of the last week, the United Kingdom has been hit by a weather system moving from Siberia, which brought heavy snowfall and icy conditions. Many parts of the country, particularly the South-East, have become mired in transport problems with people forced to abandon cars until it was safe to retrieve them. In [...]

The beginning of the end for Gordon and Labour.

These last couple of weeks have proved to be very tricky for Gordon Brown and his beleaguered Labour government. We had the row over immigration after Nick Griffin’s controversial appearance on Question Time, and the contentious sacking of Professor David Nutt after he dared to state his belief (and pretty much scientifically-backed view) that cannabis [...]

Swine Flu – now a National Emergency in the US

Barack Obama signed a bill on Friday night declaring that the outbreak of swine ‘flu seen over the last few months has now become big enough to be declared a national emergency. Basically what this means is that local authorities will now have the power to implement their own emergency strategies and bypass the usual [...]

“I’m not being racist but…”

Nick Griffin on Question Time. I think the questions aimed at him took entirely the wrong line. We all know about his views on immigration, and how he thinks multiculturalism is killing this country, so why were all the questions put to him about that? All it did was give him the ability to come [...]

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Hello, and welcome to News Discontent. The purpose of this site is to provide an alternative view on current events and world news. It is mostly opinionated, and discussion is most certainly welcomed, if you agree or disagree with anything I write about then let me know…your views are important! There have been several very [...]