Ministry of Truth

As we’re on the subject of gun crime at the moment, its worth pointing out that Scotland has its own moral panic, unseemly bout of political opportunism and proposal for a bit of McBansturbation playing out by the numbers at the moment, albeit one in which its airguns […]

At the risk of getting right up Dizzy’s nose (yet again) it’s worth pointing out that unlike some bloggers I personally make a point of never taking statistical information provided by politicians, the media (or in some cases, other bloggers) at face value without first checking the original […]

There’s a rather interest piece of linguistic legerdemain on the Telegraph’s website: One in four babies born in the UK now have a foreign mother or father, Government figures have revealed. Office for National Statistics (ONS) data for the year to July 2006 showed the proportion of babies […]

If you’ve booked a holiday in Turkey and had any thoughts of nipping out to a local cyber-cafe to catch up with your favourite blogs while you’re out there, then forget it. If the blog you’re after is hosted at wordpress.com then all you’ll see is this: “Access […]

The media driven furore over the decision of an asylum and immigration tribunal to rule out the deportation of Learco Chindamo on his eventual release from a 12 year sentence for the murder of Philip Lawrence, predictably, continues apace with the locus of the story having shifted from […]

David Cameron on the Chindamo case as quoted in the Guardian: The Conservative leader, David Cameron, called for the Human Rights Act, introduced into British law in 1998, to be repealed, saying the tribunal’s decision “flies in the face of common sense”. “It is a shining example of […]

Planet Cameron is, by all accounts, a rather curious place… Cameron stands by NHS cut claim David Cameron is standing by claims 29 district hospitals are facing cuts to emergency and maternity services. The Tory leader admitted one hospital, in north-west England, had been wrongly named by him […]

Getting quickly back on to theme of deliberate misreporting – and of the current tabloid hot ticket, ‘feral youth’ – we find the Daily Mail in full spittle-flecked fury mode over the ruling by an Immigration and Asylum Tribunal that Learco Chindamo cannot be deported on his release […]

First things first. It is most remiss of me not to have acknowledged James Higham’s laudatory remarks in the latest of his regular Saturday blogfocus commentaries: One year this blog has been going and how many blogs have we seen falling by the wayside in that time, coming […]

Things are moving on apace with the ‘We Can’t Turn Them Away” blog campaign in support of Iraqis working for UK Forces who now find themselves under threat of torture and/or murder by local militias and death squads. As you may have seen, the campaign is attracting widespread […]