Ministry of Truth

When New Labour is finally laid to rest – as it must be one day, because all things come to end – what, I wonder, will be its epitaph? What will… what should it say on the headstone? Speaking for myself, I think that can be no more […]

I’ve noticed that a few bloggers have taken to sending ‘I am Dave Walker’ e-mails to J Mark Brewer at his office e-mail address. I’m not sure quite how wise a move that is on its own, although his rather sanctimonious comments in reply are quite amusing. That […]

I’ve got a treat for anyone following the SSG/SPCK saga today – the fill set of legal papers filed in relation to J Mark Brewer’s attempt to take a UK registered charity into bankruptcy in a Texas court. To begin at the beginning, we’ll start with the Statement […]

As promised, I can now provide a full copy of the motion to dismiss the application for Chapter 7 bankruptcy filed by Mark Brewer in respect of the seemingly non-existent SSG LLC. Ordinarily I’d run this though an OCR package to generate text that can easily be copied […]

Over at the Wardman Wire, Matt is currently presiding over yet another ‘Spartacus Action’, this time relating to a ‘cease and desist’ letter issued by the Texas-based owner of what used to be a chain of Anglican bookshops to a British blogger/cartoonist, Dave Walker, which led to the […]

From the file marked ‘Please can I have a job at the Daily Mash… please… pretty please…’ we find a ‘Staff Reporter’ at the Sun getting the annual silly season off to a flying start: Anti Alien’ hats for Wales A US boffin has pledged ‘anti-alien’ hats to […]

Follow-up research in the so-called ‘Centre for Open Politics’ has revealed that one of its founder members, Harry Cole, a Vice President of Conservative Future Scotland, was found to have operated an anonymous attack blog during his campaign for President of Edinburgh University Students Association, earlier this year. […]

Having busted the so-called ‘Centre for Open Politics’ as a front for Conservative Future in my last post, I did a little more digging and turned up this information from the site’s domain registration information… Domain name: sunlight-cops.org.uk Registrant: Centre for Open Politics Limited Registrant type: UK Limited […]

As I expected all along, Guido’s ‘crusade’ against the Smith Institute has turned out, on publication of the Charity Commission’s Inquiry Report, to be pretty much a busted flush. Overall, the Smith Institute has been criticised for failing to take sufficient steps to ensure that it maintained a […]

The extreme decision of an employment tribunal in the case of Ladele vs Islington (pdf), that of the registrar who claimed to have discriminated against on religious ground for refusing to officiate in civil partnership ceremonies, has naturally drawn a considerable amount of attention amongst bloggers. Thus far, […]