After reading my colleague’s piece on how New York is now recommending “Glory Holes” as a way to avoid coronavirus, I was hit with two big thoughts. Firstly could the year get any worse? And secondly would it be possible for me to lower the bar further at Weird World Wire? It was then that…
This weekend fascists came to London and fought the police in Parliament Square, and one even urinated on the memorial plaque of PC Keith Palmer who died protecting civilians from Islamic terrorists, giving fascists around the great nation of England an unexpected dilemma. These last few weeks have been a fantastic period for English fascists,…
The Gorbachev Pizza Hut Advert. How on Earth did it come to this? Mikhail Gorbachev, last premier of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, leader of what remained of the socialist world, reduced to an advert for pizza. From an American pizza chain no less! How the hell did that happen!? Well, we’ll need to…
Okay, so a few things right off the bat. A Trotskyist is a revolutionary socialist following in the footsteps of Russian Bolshevik Leon Trotsky and (debatably) Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. They distinguish themselves from Marxist-Leninists (often termed ‘Stalinists’ or sometimes ‘Tankies’) with a focus on the theory of permanent revolution, this being the idea that…
Within the cancel culture hellscape in which we all currently reside, it is nothing new for friends and even family to be disowned, for companies to sever alliances with other companies, and for entire city blocks to be destroyed in the name of one group’s idea of progress. We live in a time when a…
Now, you read that title and I’m sure you sneer. Don’t be shy, I would too when just reading the title on some random website. Obviously a bit of clickbait, right? Well, no. There was an actual secret army of Nazis that existed in post-war West Germany. It was never activated obviously, but it was…
It’s hard to think of two places that are more similar, yet more different than Russia and Australia. Think about it. Both are fucking massive and the majority of both countries are completely uninhabitable. But one is freezing cold and the other is blisteringly hot. Both are well known for drunken rowdiness and having ‘hard…
I doubt it’s escaped your attention that 2020 has been fucking awful. Train wreck after train wreck has ravaged this shitty, choking, boiling, drowning planet, and while the ongoing American protests would likely be the highlight of any other year, it’s unquestionably the Covid-19 viral outbreak that’s the definitive year event. As of this moment,…