Ministry of Truth

So the Andrew Mitchell road-show keeps rumbling along with any signs of coming to a resolution and yet the more I read of the political exchanges and media coverage the more it seems to me that those involved in keeping this issue going have lost sight of the […]

Is is bravery or masochism that’s prompted Medhi Hasan to jump straight back into the fire by regaling the world with his list of “10 Things I Learned From Debating Abortion On Twitter“? Who knows for sure, but as the article is up at HuffPo I suppose the […]

Okay, so while I was tackling Deborah Orr’s misconceived view of the abortion debate, Mehdi Hassan was stirring up a shit storm of his own at the New Statesman with an article entitled ‘Being pro-life doesn’t make me any less of a lefty‘. Maybe it does, maybe it […]

I could, I suspect, be forgiven for being more than just a little bit irritated with Deborah Orr’s comments on the seemingly never-ending abortion debate, which she kicks off with the following observations… Oh, Lord, the right to choose. There’s no more powerful and predictable way to invite […]

There appears to be a suggestion doing the rounds that the BBC, together with Stoke Mandeville and the Leeds General Hospitals, could find themselves on the wrong end of compensation claims from women who have come forward over the last couple of weeks with allegations that they were […]

There are days when one has to wonder whether there might just be a secret competition under way for the title of the most viscerally unpleasant clergyman in Britain. If there is such a competition – and if there isn’t there should be – then it’s one for […]

It seems that those who regard Channel 4 as a veritable sinkhole of political correctness and unbridled left-wing propaganda have rather less to fear than they might think if this advert, which is being circulated to medical professionals is anything to go by… (h/t Margaret McCartney) “Channel Four […]

The current upper limit for legal elective abortions (24 weeks gestation) is back in the news, yet again, courtesy of an article by Channel 4’s Cathy Newman at the Papal Telegraph’s new ‘Wonder Woman’ blog section – and, no, having looked over the section there’s not of hint […]

Last week’s release of the results of the DfE’s new phonics test for six and seven year olds was, when it hit the media, predictably a matter of choosing whether your glass was half full or half empty. The BBC, perhaps unsurprisingly, fell quickly into line with the […]

The smell of burning straw men is, again, wafting over Andrew Brown’s latest contribution to Comment is Free: This isn’t bad science. It’s evil science How helpful is it to say that science is neutral in itself, and what makes it good or evil are political decisions? Scientists, […]