Ministry of Truth

The ever vigilant Spyblog has spotted an ‘old friend’ lurking in the bowels of the government’s draft constitutional reform bill (pdf): It looks as if we will have to again go through all the fuss and lobbying that we saw over the wretched Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act […]

“Happy” Jack Straw has finally given us an overview of his proposals for ‘constitutional renewal’ – I do wish he’d lay off the ‘renewal’ thing as it only makes me think of 1976 film version of Logan’s Run – which includes one obvious crowd-pleaser: Our view is that […]

There is, it seems, no limit to the utter mendacity of the religious mind when bent on self-justification, as the Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, Cormac Murphy O’Connor so neatly demonstrates: Two months ago I was in Zimbabwe, to see for myself the desperate situation of so many people […]

If Nadine Dorries can play this game then so can I: Nadine Dorries MP. Conservative. Mid Bedfordshire. Majority: 11,355 (for now) Nadine has systematically lied about and misrepresented the current state of medical and scientific evidence relating to abortion in an effort to advance an unscientific and disingenuous […]

We’re well used to the fact that the reflexive hatred of the right wing press for anything remotely related to the European Union means is such that they’ll swallow any old load of bollocks about the supposedly pernicious effects of EU regulations on the businessman’s inalienable right to […]

According to the Daily Mail, the ‘real’ North-South divide in Britain is not about income or opportunity; it’s about how much Council Tax you pay: Council tax has risen up to three times faster in the South than in the northern towns of Labour’s heartlands, figures show. In […]

I’ve taken one well deserved shot at Nadine Dorries today, and now I’m back for more. If you’ve read me last post then you’ll have noted that Dorries made this comment in an effort to suggest that the doctor who exposed the ‘hand of hope’ hoax had somehow […]

On Monday, Bookdrunk posed the question: nadine dorries: ignorant or lying (part 92) Today, in the wake of Dorries reviving a long debunked hoax, we get this: Hand of Truth I’ve had an amazing response to the ‘Hand of Hope’ blog posted yesterday. Of course, the pro-abortionist lobby […]

It seems that the publication of the government’s new national security strategy is likely to spawn a wealth of depressingly stupid commentary on the subject of ‘cybercrime’ if early reactions are anything to go by. Take the Telegraph, a newspaper with previous form for running planted stories on […]

Let’s start with a bit of a history lesson. Back at the end of last October, I, like a few other bloggers, started to do a little digging around after a Bermuda registered company called Flying Lion Limited, which operates out of Boca Raton, Florida and whose main […]