Ministry of Truth

As a bit of a coda to my last piece on Nadine Dorries’ mendacious conduct, it is worth noting with due reference to her habitual and tendentious practice of referring to ‘the abortion industry’ that prior to entering Parliament she was, for around a year, a director of […]

I’ve taken on and roundly picked apart the banal, uneducated and irrational maunderings of Nadine ‘Mad Nad’ Dorries on the subject of abortion on a couple of previous occasions, so I expect it will come as no great surprise to find that with the Commons’ Science and Technology […]

Its not the government who’re behaving like cowards here – they’ve taken the decision to rule out a referendum and that it will be for parliament to decide on the ratification of the treaty – and it will be for the electorate to judge them according on that […]

Oh dear, David Green – a director of Civitas, apparently – thinks we’re heading towards totalitarianism: Until 1967 gays could be sent to prison. Now, 40 years on from liberalisation, one gay pressure group wants people who criticise gays and lesbians to be put in jail. The gay […]

Iain Dale is looking for a bit of advice: Just a warning to those ‘anonymous’ commenters who think they can say anything they like on a blog and get away with it. Well you can’t. I’ve always maintained that anyone on the internet is subject to exactly the […]

I’m rather in two minds about the current right-wing feeding frenzy over the Indy’s obvious lifting of material from a Foreign Office press release for an article on ’10 myths about the EU [reform] treaty’. You see, on the one hand, its not as if the Indy doesn’t […]

Another day, and yet another of example of Usmanov-style censorship by exploiting the absurdities of the UK libel laws under which UK-based ISPs and webhosts can be held liable for third party content. The following article appeared, initially, on The Quackometer, which aims to debunk quack medicine on […]

I have a bit of question for the Tory Party’s Deputy Chairman, Lord Ashcroft, who ships up in today’s Torygraph with the following claim: Two popular misconceptions have arisen about the Tory target seats operation… …The second is that I give money directly to Conservative candidates or constituency […]

It’s not often that Chris Dillow misses a key point in what is otherwise a typically sharp and incisive assessment of the ongoing bleating about migration placing ‘pressure’ on public services but, for once, there is something that can be added to his analysis that bears mentioning as, […]

 Its always sad to see an eminent scientist getting himself into strife with what appears, at first sight, to be a few injudicious and controversial remarks. It’s even worse to find that those remarks have been used to construct an unfair and rather misleading hose job on the […]