GUEST FEATURE: Mortimer’s Guide To Armchair Anarchy #2

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GUEST FEATURE: Mortimer’s Guide To Armchair Anarchy #2

George T. Mortimer is the editor and webmaster of the amazing Media Underground, as well as being the author of The Probationer's Handbook, and The Key of it All. Each week Mort will be teaching you ways of keeping 'The Man' on his toes, and all from the comfort of your home.   Junk Mail Japery   Everyone hates receiving junk mail. In fact, on average, each UKhousehold receives 18 items of junk mail every week with 21 billion junk mail items being distributed to UK households every year.   There are already many websites out there that will show you how to eliminate junk mail by opting out altogether, or by saving it up and sending it all back on an appointed day as a statement of protest. I’m not going to encourage you to do any of the aforementioned, since neither of these options helps out the future of Royal Mail which is already put under strain through the overpowering regulations set by the government’s Postal Services Commission (Postcomm).   The problem that faces Royal Mail is simple: the government, whilst expecting Royal Mail to provide a universal postal service, also expects Royal Mail to handle its competitors’ bulk mail. This means that rival mail companies get paid ...

Guest Feature: Mortimer’s Guide To Armchair Anarchy #1

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Guest Feature: Mortimer’s Guide To Armchair Anarchy #1

 George T. Mortimer is the editor and webmaster of the amazing Media Underground, as well as being the author of The Probationer's Handbook, and The Key of it All. Each week Mort will be teaching you ways of keeping 'The Man' on his toes, and all from the comfort of your home.    Mortimer’s Guide To Armchair Anarchy   A couple of weeks ago, Ken invited me on board the Right Where You Are Sitting Now team to contribute a regular column... but what the hell to write about?   “What do you want to write about?” was Ken’s response.   That’s when I realised that being given total freedom is sometimes more complicated than simply being told what to do - which is probably why the planet is in the appalling state that it is today.   Western civilisation, it seems, has degenerated into a society of numbskulls - its population has become decadent, self-obsessed, submissive and soft. All the signs are there for total collapse and, in my opinion, this collapse is well deserved.   As political institutions throw tax-payers money at failing banks, the population inwardly release a sigh of relief, hoping that this temporary fix ...