Ministry of Truth

This just in, and reproduced verbatim:  LEGAL CHALLENGE TO GOVERNMENT AS PRESSURE GROWS FOR INDEPENDENT 7/7 INQUIRY Survivors and relatives of the people killed in the July 7 th London bomb attacks have warned the Government that they will seek a Judicial Review into its continued refusal to […]

Radio Five Live’s ‘Pods and Blogs‘ show has been kind enough to pick up on and feature the ongoing blog campaign in support of those Iraqi employees who’ve worked for, and are still working for, UK forces and who now find themselves under threat from local militias and […]

Time to get back in the saddle with another episode of the Dale ‘n Dizzy show: Labour caught out on the internet again? Remember the last time Labour MPs had to apologise for making dodgy videos? No? Well I bet Tom Watson and Sion Simon so. Well, Dizzy […]

I must congratulate Mr Eugenides on penning this moving eulogy for Shambo: Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy T-bone, Silence the tambourines and with muffled drums Bring out the burger buns, let the ketchup come. Let cattle trucks […]

I’ve written a couple of articles in the last couple of months on the general theme of the abject state of science/health journalism in the mainstream press – see Why is the Indy Shilling for Big Pharma? and Dumbing Down Dementia– the second of which includes this observation: […]

It has long been accepted by the vast majority of the British people, whatever their views on immigration in general, that service to Queen and Country counts for something; that regardless of the different rules on immigration and residency that may or may not be in force at […]

There is no escape… On the steps of the presidential offices in Kigali, sheltered by a pergola from the burning midday sun, David Cameron turned to face a Rwandan television reporter. First, she wanted to know about his efforts to out-trump Labour on international development, and then she […]

Getting a little caught up in the political knockabout surrounding last week’s by-elections meant that there were one or two things I’d intended to blog that fell by the wayside, at least until Justin reminded me of what I’d intended to write with these observations. The other day, […]

Watching Guido trying to salvage a few meagre shreds of reputation as the blogosphere premier ‘Sleazefinder General’ is, I must admit, rather entertaining. Do You Believe there is No Connection Between Cash and Honours? Tony Blair created 292 peers. Millions were raised from the recipients of those honours… […]

Right, I’ll be liveblogging this for the next hour or so until both results are in: 00:15 Sedgefield result estimated to be in about 30-40 minutes. 00:20 Looks a little tight in Ealing Southall but its starting to look like a Labour hold, Lib Dems second and a […]