Tag: editorial

Has someone been taking a dump in the residential bins? Doc Sleaze muses on some recent incidences of everyday madness, including literally messy bins and the pestilence that are charity cold callers, with a view to landing a regular column in ‘The Guardian’. Whimsical observations on life, or the crazed rantings of a bitter old crank?

Doc Sleaze ignores the Platinum Jubilee in revenge for the Queen having ignored him many years ago, while pondering how detrimental to democracy the continued existence of an institution as archaic as the monarchy might be. Is it time to storm the palaces?

As war rages in Ukraine, we ask the Stop the War Coalition, how does it feel to be aligned with Nigel Farage in blaming the unprovoked Russian invasion of its neighbour on NATO and the EU? Will the UK’s Russian-financed Tory government do the right thing, or just keep spouting hot air? Just what can we do to help Ukraine?

Has social media democratised abuse, making more forms of mass harassment and defamation freely available to the masses? Or is it merely a largely irrelevant sideshow, full of would be political campaigners mistaking trending meaningless hashtags into oblivion for activism?

I don’t do enough merchandising. But what sort of merchandising would be appropriate for The Sleaze? Colouring books for the kiddies or sleazy calendars? Maybe pop-up books illustrating our sleaziest stories or life-size inflatables depicting characters like ‘Kick Ass Jesus’ would be more appropriate…

Are the mobs of ill-informed idiots swarming onto the streets to protest non-existent lockdowns and life-saving vaccines an analogy for modern Britain? They are clearly furious about something, but they just aren’t sure what, exactly – but whatever it is, they want it stopped…

An epic journey through back pain takes in Norwegian Black Metal, church burning, nihilism and intrusive social media. Just where do the likes of Facebook and You Tube get their data for their personalised ‘recommendations’? Can viewing Black Metal videos frustrate their intrusive surveillance?

Is the truth drowning in an ocean of lies promulgated by politicians and media? Is this part of a strategy to so relentlessly batter voters with fabrications and half truths in order to normalise the idea that lies are the truth? That anything authority says must be accepted without challenge? Even when there is overwhelming evidence that it is untrue…

I’m none the wiser as to exactly what it is that the anti-vaxxers have a problem with. What do they think will happen if they take the vaccine? That they’ll turn all bestial and hairy and ravaged every woman in the district? Or grow another head? I mean, it’s just a small prick…

Are we all deluded? Why do we refuse to admit that our idols – whether in politics or entertainment – might be flawed, idiotic or corrupt, even when it is self-evident that they are? Do we simply not want to admit how easily we can be deceived?

Do conspiracy theorists believe in elephants? Does Covid exist if you don’t know anyone who has had it? Or Is it just a conspiracy to oppress us, steal our data and track us via microchips injected into our bodies under cover of vaccines? Cranks, crackpots and Covid deniers confronted.

I just knew that somebody, somewhere must be saying, in the wake of all those sportsmen ‘taking the knee’, that most idiotic phrase in history: ‘they should keep politics out of sport’. Do they really believe that there is some kind of abstract, universal, notion of ‘sportsmanship’ which transcends political and moral principles? There isn’t – everything’s political…

What the Black Lives Matter protests have revealed is the staggering level of ignorance on the part of a depressingly large number of people who just can’t seem to grasp what constitutes racism. You know the ones I mean, the ones who profess not to be racist, but…

We welcome the return of anonymity ushered in by the pandemic. Thanks to Covid-19 we can now go masked in public with impunity – anti-social behaviour is now within in the reach of all as CCTV cameras are rendered impotent by mass mask wearing.

Contrary to crackpot coronavirus deniers, ‘The Sleaze’ welcomes the arrival of Covid-19 as it ushers in the prospect of two weeks off work in self isolation. Plenty of time to contemplate the horrors of Boris Johnson getting another unsuspecting woman pregnant – will the mental image of his wobbling buttocks drive the population mad before the virus kills them?