Ministry of Truth

I’m generally not one for talking up the qualities of Tory Shadow Ministers, as you might easily guess, but I have to admit that for a while I’ve considered the Shadow Education Minister, Michael Gove, to be one of the more quietly impressive figures in what is otherwise […]

Zarathustra, who’s both an occasional visitor to the comment boxes here at the Ministry and a damn fine blogger in their own right, over at Mental Nurse, currently has a very welcome guest post on the go over at my second online home, Liberal Conspiracy, which relates to […]

Via Jack of Kent, it seems that the British Chiropractic Association have finally been stung into publishing details of the ‘plethora’ of research evidence that they claim supports the use of Chiropractic manipulation for a variety of condition other than non-specific lower back pain. Jack’s got a copy […]

Someone’s clearly forget to tell the Guardian’s northern editor, Martin Wainwright, that the war’s over… The medical properties of carrots – including the boost they provide to night vision, which led to them being fed to RAF pilots during the second world war – can be enhanced by […]

One from the file marked, ‘Nah… fuck off!‘… A couple have taken legal action after claiming motion sensors installed at their holiday flat in Dorset breached their rights as Orthodox Jews. Gordon and Dena Coleman said they cannot leave or enter their Bournemouth flat on the Sabbath because […]

It’s been a while, but let’s return to the subject of the DWP’s trial of a so-called ‘voice risk analysis’ system and bring you all up to speed on what’s been happening since my last post on this particular subject. At the beginning of May, this year, I […]

More than a year ago, I wrote this about the government’s misuse of statistics when talking about the gender pay gap… However the real ‘elephant in the room’ here is this statement, which comes from a factsheet (pdf) produced by the government’s own Women and Equality Unit: The […]

It’s been too long, I know, but I promise that I’ll be picking things up and posting regularly from this point forward. So let’s get down to business by starting with story that’s particularly dear to my heart, that of Simon Singh’s valient efforts to defend the principle […]

First things, first, apologies for the lack of posting of late, which is due to a number of ongoing real life issues that I can’t discuss for the time being, but which I may be able to clear up in due course. Now, having got that out of […]

Okay, its time for the third and final instalment of my investigation into the scientific evidence behind the DWP’s trial of Nemesysco’s ‘Layered Voice Analysis’ technology… …and in this episode I intend to blow the lid on the system complete and explain exactly how this scientifically invalid piece […]