Ministry of Truth

Throughout her efforts to introduce greater restrictions on access to abortion services, Nadine Dorries has claimed to be neither part of the ‘pro-life’ or ‘pro-choice’ lobby and that she is not motivated in her efforts by her personal religious beliefs. And, all along, bloggers like myself have had […]

Oh dear, Violet Elizabeth Nadine Dorries is in a bit of a snit at the moment… The press conference yesterday almost became a fiasco. To be perfectly honest, I hadn’t really expected anyone to turn up. So when I walked into a room full of cameras and journalists, […]

No, I’ve not forgotten you all, I’m just a tad busy at the moment with important stuff. What stuff? Well, start here with the new Coalition for Choice website, which – as you’ll hopefully see by Monday’s 2nd reading of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill – is […]

In which Guido discovers the old adage that ‘those who live by the sword…’ Blogger ‘Guido Fawkes’ is led off to the Tower Off to the rack with him! The waspish Westminster blogger “Guido Fawkes”, who is devoted to making life uncomfortable for political trough-guzzlers, joins his historical […]

‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone,’ it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.”The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’ ‘The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is […]

Over the weekend I was asked to write a short article for Index on Censorship as part of a point/counterpoint commentary on UCL’s decision to sever all links with Dr Nicholas Kollerstrom. You can see what I had to say on the subject here – I’m backing UCL, […]

For an all too brief moment I thought that Mad Nad might be gearing up for a startling admission: When on TV, It’s ok to argue your point as hard as you wish, and to use evidence and statistics to back that point up. It’s not ok to […]

Is it just me or is Eric Pickles rapidly turning into the male version of Nadine Dorries? The Tories have issued a St George’s Day rallying cry against plans by Brussels to “wipe England off the map” and create a United Europe. As Gordon Brown hoisted the English […]

Apropos of my last post on the subject of the ONS’s new Integrated Household Survey, I posed the question of where, exactly, the Tory’s Shadow Communities Secretary, Eric Pickles, intended to obtain statistical information to support the policy making process in his department were he to ever find […]

The degeneration of the once mighty Daily Telegraph into a fucking comic continues apace: Government to quiz households on sex lives and salaries More than 500,000 people a year are to be questioned about their sex lives and salaries by Government inspectors, it has emerged. Officials will ask […]