For reasons know only to himself, Marcel Berlins seems intent, of late, on making a complete arse of himself on every possible opportunity… The attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, confirmed in the Lords last week that the government was “actively considering” removing the right to anonymity from women who […]

Following meekly in the undistinguished footsteps of the Queen of Complacency, Polly Toynbee, Johann Hari, writing in the Indy, has turned his attention to the always thorny issue of government, databases and personal data, and put up a sterling effort at becoming Polly Pot’s ‘Prince Consort’… The Seventies […]

It’s long been known, locally, that the Wolverhampton-based Express & Star newspaper is no great friend of the political left, so much so that it long ago earned itself the nickname of the ‘Excess & Swastika’ for the rather obvious right-wing bias of much of its content. Even […]