Ministry of Truth

Sunny’s post at Lib Con, questioning whether us lefties are angry enough, has prompted some interesting and wide-ranging exchanges, not least on the subject of climate change, during which DK threw this retort into the pot: You know that I write about this a lot and, probably unlike […]

Blair’s speech on faith and globalisation looks set to be a bit of lulu, if this quote from the Grauniad are anything to go by: “Faith is reduced to a system of strange convictions and actions that, to some, can appear far removed from the necessities and anxieties […]

Since, at least, 1997, when flights were provided to Peter Lilley in support of his campaign to replace John Major as leader of the Conservative Party, a small number of Conservative MPs have had the benefit of having flights, taken as part of overseas visits, by a Bermuda […]

…is currently running this advert, via a talent agency… A national newspaper wants your story and will pay hundreds of pounds to the right person. Write a few lines about how computer games turned you to crime and if it’s something we like, we’ll call you straight back. […]

Sarah-Kate Templeton, late of the Sunday Herald and current the Health Editor at the Times is, so I understand, an award-winning health journalist… …not that that seems to mean very much on the evidence of her coverage of the revised guidance issued by the Royal College of Psychiatrists […]

Bookdrunk has already picked up on the latest round of smears by Nadine Dorries, the MP for Mid Narnia, which goes as follows: There is not one NHS hospital in the UK which will carry out abortion over 16 weeks other than Kings in London and Newcastle, they […]

Oh fuck me… Six thousand specially selected civil servants descend on London today and tomorrow for three days of intense briefings before returning to their posts to become “special agents” of the cabinet secretary Sir Gus O’Donnell, with permission to “give their bosses a hard time” if they […]

From the file marked ‘fucking stupid ideas’ Theo Hobson has an idea for tackling depression and a whole bunch of other social ills: Or rather we need to get back to the older idiom, the one based on the mythological battle of good and evil. And here is […]

And yes, another abortion post, but as the anti-abortion lobby keeps on lying, I’m just going to have keep right on pointing out the truth. So what have we got for today? Well it’s this article in the Telegraph which claims that: Hundreds of children are surviving after […]

This has to be, by a long, long distance, the stupidest comment I have read in a very, very long time: Here’s another interesting departure. It seems a bit odd to thank China for this can-do report, endorsed so speedily by Gordon Brown, but that country’s efforts to […]