Ministry of Truth

While others take the Tory hypocritosphere to task for all the usual reasons, a quick visit to Nadine Dorries’s website, CiP (Comment is Prohibited) show her to be reaching for the literary emetics with all her usual lack of restraint. For me personaly (sic), the most difficult part […]

I may be a tad late joining the ‘why I’ve joined the Liberal Conspiracy‘ party but sometimes its worth hanging back for a couple of days to check out some of the initial reaction to the project. Which, perhaps unsurprising, seems to be something of a mix of […]

Tim and Garry have both picked up on Nadine Dorries’ sudden decision to turn off the comments facility on her ‘blog’: No More Comments Posted Thursday, 1 November 2007 at 00:00 I am no longer going to post comments on my blog. Please don’t send any more comments […]

Only yesterday, Tom Watson raised an interesting query about David Cameron’s entry on the parliamentary register of member’s interests. What Tom noted was this rather curious entry: To facilitate my travel in my capacity as Leader of the Opposition since December 2005 I have received helicopter and private […]

My oh my, while researching the background to Flying Lion Ltd/Con Air 1, I appear to have stumbled across something very interesting. One the Electoral Commission’s website, the entry on register of donations to regulated donees for a very senior Conservative politician includes three overseas visits where the […]

After a little mild prompting from Tom Watson, one or two bloggers have happily picked up the trail of Flying Lion Limited, a Bermuda registered company with, seemingly, one major asset – a Dassault Falcon F900EX executive jet, registration number VP-BMS, otherwise known to several Labour bloggers as […]

I see that Sam Coates – of Tory Home – appears to be wandering around the blogosphere and making ‘It’s not true’ comments in response to the Indy’s gossipy remarks about the speculation that Tim Mongomerie and Nadine Dorries may have been playing hide the sausage on the […]

From the Indy’s media diary… MOVING ON to more cheerful affairs of the heart. Cyberspace’s one-handed surfers keep the words “internet” and “romance” estranged from one another, but there are, nevertheless, touching tales to be found on the web. Conservativehome.com is a (rather good) Tory site edited by […]

Apologies, in advance, for yet another post on the subject of abortion but having just watched the relevant segment of last night’s Newsnight and the comments of both Nadine Dorries and a representative of the Christian Medical Fellowship, there is a very specific point that needs dealing with. […]

I’ve posted a lengthy comment over at Pickled Politics on Sunny’s commentary on Mad Nad’s incessant twisting on the subject of abortion, which bears repetition here as it pretty much sums up my personal position on the current debate and one the way forward… Let’s get into this: […]