BY SEAN WALSH Dostoevsky was right on the money when he wrote about how some people straight-up enjoy taking offence at the most trivial things: “A man who lies to himself is the first to take offence…he likes feeling offended, it gives him great pleasure, and thereby he reaches a point of great hostility” – The Brothers Karamazov Dostoevsky’s novel is an unsurpassed literary dissertation … Continue reading We Need to Become More Offensive
BY SOPHIE CORCORAN What do Angela Rayner’s words really mean for young right-wing activists? The Labour Party Deputy Leader has refused to apologise for the comments she made at this year’s Labour Party conference where she stated Conservatives were ‘worse than a bunch of homophobic, racist, misogynistic, piece of scum.’ Adding for good measure that this crazed diatribe demonstrated she was ‘holding back’. This wasn’t the … Continue reading Normalising Abuse
BY NIGEL BEAN & PAUL READ Recently the Countryside Alliance ran a survey to find out the extent of the abuse its members received online. They received 500 responses – 310 had received either death threats, photos of their children placed online alongside photos of their houses making the statement ‘we know where you live’. And the usual accusations of sadist, psychopath, bloodthirsty snob, child … Continue reading Countryside Alliance Attacked
