Ministry of Truth

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’, […]

There seems to be an interesting, if somewhat technical, discussion brewing over at the Graun’s ‘Comment is Free’ ont he subject of Darfur, Genocide and the legal obligations on the international community arising out of the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, […]

As today marks the public launch of the Euston Manifesto it comes as no surprise to find one of its authors, Norman Geras, popping up in the Guardian with yet another of his trite expositions on the ‘geography of the left’. It would be unfair to say that […]

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 […]

Blair shame at ban on Jews The banning of Jews in the year 1290 was a shameful moment in our history, he said. The country was "all the poorer" for being devoid of a Jewish community. The prime minister’s hard-hitting outburst was made in the programme at a […]

You’ve gotta love this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, not just one but two bona fide comedy classics and we’ve only had the semi-final so far… First up, there’s the Lithuanian entry by LT United, who’re apparently the biggest thing on the alternative scene over there. How can I […]

This doesn’t appear to have hit the press yet, but Iain Dale is reporting, this morning, that Eric Forth, Conservative MP for Bromley and Chislehurst passed away last night.

I should preface this post with a rare – and brief – autobiographical note. Although I work in community development, and have done now for more than ten years, I actually trained as a psychologist (organisational/human factors, not the ‘sit down on the couch and tell me your […]

The Islamic Reformation has to begin here, with an acceptance that all ideas, even sacred ones, must adapt to altered realities – Salman Rushdie. Faith must trample underfoot all sense, reason and understanding – Martin Luther. There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence […]

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