Last night;s Question Time was one of those occasions where you really do end up feeling a bit sorry for David Dimbleby when you some of at the distinctly low-rent panellists he was landed with; Ian Hislop was moderately entertaining and Shirley Williams provided the kind of welcome […]

Within the Labour movement, I think we can take it as read that we all understand the importance of tackling racist political partieshead on – you know exactly who I mean; that’s something we can all agree on, I should think, even if we sometimes differ in our […]

Wahey, Kitty Ussher‘s back with another puff piece in the Graun (from last Friday – and curiously enough, not on Comment Is Free where us plebs can get at her via the comments boxes) And what’s Kitty got to say for herself this time? Well, looks rather like […]

I spotted this yesterday, while out shopping, in one of the Sunday tabloids that had been left open on the news stand is Asda (didn’t notice which one, sorry). St Alban is holier than St George THE Church of England will debate making St Alban an alternative patron […]

Last night’s defeat in Blaenau Gwent seems to have prompted Gareth Davies to revisit some old ground on the issue that caused a schism in the local party before the last election, the imposition on the local CLP of an all female shortlist during the selection of the […]

Following on from my own recent work in exposing local BNP councillor Simon Smith’s prurient views while posting under the alias ‘Steve Freedom’ on the Stormfront forums, I’m delighted to see that my esteemed collegue PoliticalHack has been doing a bit of digging of his own, and has […]

Not content with being roundly exposed as a regular contributor to the cess pit that is the Stormfront Forum, Great Bridge BNP Councillor Simon Smith has very quickly succeeded in demonstrating that other notable facet of the BNP… …plain old-fashioned stupidity. Simon, like other Sandwell Councillors, is given […]

It seems the knuckledraggers in Barking have been having a few unfortunately fiscal problems… [Published in the Evening Standard last week, by Andrew Gilligan] Three of the BNP’s new councillors in Barking and Dagenham have been taken to court for owing thousands of pounds in rent and council […]

Warning – Not work-safe if your workplace has a policy on accessing offensive material and very long. No, I’m not Steve Freedom. ‘Steve Freedom’ is the online alias used by Simon Smith, the newly elected BNP councillor for Great Bridge in Sandwell, on the white ‘nationalist’ forum ‘Stormfront’, […]

Bob Piper picks up a nice little story from the ‘you couldn’t make it up file’: Most people won’t have heard of the England First party. There’s no real reason that you should have done because they’re crackers, but they did persuade the people of Blackburn and Dawen […]