Turning Point UK Is a Bloody Shambles
Oh, cripes! Turning Point USA’s new venture in the United Kingdom has gone a bit pear-shaped, BuzzFeed News reported on…
British Parliament Fully Melts Down After Jeremy Corbyn Appears to Call Theresa May 'Stupid Woman'
We now go (almost) live to British politics land, where everyday proceedings are somehow sillier and dumber than…
Congress Sucks Compared to This
BRITISH POLITICS ALERT: Lloyd Russell-Moyle, a Labour Party MP from Kemptown and possessor of the most British name I…
Trump's (Reportedly) Been Having a Good Old Natter With His Mate Nigel Farage
Cor! Can you Adam & Eve it? Old Mr. Trump’s only been talking to bloody Nigel again! What a pillock! What’s he like,…
Government Healthcare Is Saving My Mum's Life
My mother has lung cancer. At the end of last year, she began feeling breathless and tired, struggling with walks…
Absolute Twat Blocks British Law to Ban Taking Upskirt Photos
In an effort to console Americans by proving that their country’s politics aren’t alone in being completely fucking…
Fur Flies at 10 Downing Street: A Symbol of a Divided Britain?
Theresa May, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, is struggling. She’s dealing with the collapse of a major…
Donald Trump Pissed Off the Entire UK Again
During a particularly vigorous bout of “executive time” this morning, Donald Trump was watching a Fox & Friends segment…
Piers Morgan Eats Donald Trump's Ass (In Pic)
Piers Morgan, the renowned British TV troll, has made himself well-known for his anti-feminist and transphobic takes…
Lord Bates Is Late, Says 'Bye Mates,' Parliament Remonstrates
SHOCKING scenes in the UK’s House of Lords today as Lord Michael Bates, the Minister for International Development,…
Leaked Report: Britain to Be Absolutely Knackered by Brexit
A U.K. government analysis leaked to BuzzFeed shows that under every scenario, Britain’s economic growth will be hit by…
Privatization Is Bad
One of Britain’s largest government contractors, Carillion, announced bankruptcy on Tuesday, leaving its 20,000 UK…
The NHS Crisis: Austerity, Not Single Payer, Kills
Britain’s National Health Service is in the middle of a deadly and completely predictable crisis. As an unusually cold…
Trump's Retweets of British Hate Group's Anti-Muslim Videos Causing Membership to Soar
Welcome to WHAT NOW, a morning round-up of the news/fresh horrors that await you today.
'Have We Reached Peak Grubbiness?' An Interview with My Mum, Defender of Public Healthcare
As I wrote at the beginning of this week’s series on the NHS, my first political experience happened when I was two or…
How to Dismantle a National Health Service: Lessons from the NHS, Part 4
This week, Splinter is interviewing experts on what advocates for a universal healthcare in the U.S. can learn from the…
How to Kill Insurance Companies: The NHS and Single Payer, Part 3
This week, as your resident Briton, I’m talking to experts on single payer healthcare and the UK’s National Health…
"It's Always Cheaper to Let People Die": Lessons From the NHS, Part 2
All this week, Splinter is talking to healthcare experts about what advocates for a single payer system can learn from…
What Can the U.S. Learn About Universal Healthcare From the NHS?
The first time I ever appeared in the press it was not for something I wrote. It was a picture of my mum carrying me,…
Britain might be lost, but Trump can still be defeated
I thought it wouldn’t happen in Britain; I was wrong. I thought it couldn’t happen here; I was wrong. But here’s the…