Ministry of Truth

Apropos of my last article on the rantings of Mad Mel on the subject of the government’s proposed Sexual Orientation Regulations (consultation document – pdf), I thought I’d take a bit of a closer look at the campaign being conducted, in the main, by a evangelical group called […]

Much as I generally try to avoid the febrile ravings of Mad Mel Phillips, her latest prurient missive for the Daily Mail is one that I simply cannot pass without comment: The cause of Mad Mel’s latest rantings turns out to be a set of draft regulation being […]

Regular readers might have long since gathered that I’m no great fan of bureaucracy – who is? – but more than that, the one thing that really, seriously gets on my fucking tits is being patronised by bureaucracy… …and right now, there is no more patronising bunch of […]

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 […]

I don’t often pull stuff out of the comments boxes, but the following response from Nigel Sedgwick, to a recent piece of mine on government IT cost overruns (specifically on the NHS electronic patient record system) and how this is likely to relate to the National Identity Register […]

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 appears that Trevor Phillips is in one of his making a complete arse of himself moods yet again, if this report from the Meeja Grauniad is anything to go by… Writing in the Beeb’s in-house, Ariel, Phillps has argued for an amendment to the Race Relations Act […]

Not unsurprisingly, the news that the NHS’s new electronic patient record system is running more than two years late and looks likely to cost more than three times the £6.2 billion cost that was touted at the time that the project was given the go ahead  – or […]

In today’s Indy (behind the PPV firewall as usual, dammit!) Phillip Hensher has a sorry tale to tell of dinner conversation with Sir Martin Rees, the Astronomer Royal. Rees, as he tells the story, was speaking to a senior figure at the Smithsonian Institution and having first complimented […]

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 […]