Ministry of Truth

My, my… The chancellor, Alistair Darling, today became the most senior member of the cabinet to admit he had smoked cannabis “occasionally in my youth”. The shock admission, from the minister best known as a “safe pair of hands”, came after the home secretary, Jacqui Smith, revealed that […]

Following hot on the heels of the Jonathan Isaby’s gaff in publishing what he claimed were unofficial vote tallies taken by a member of the Tory Campaign team in Ealing Southall during the verification of postal ballots, a second national newspaper appears to have repeated Isaby’s gaff. Visit […]

With everything else that’s gone on around the Ealing Southall by-election and mere hours before the polls open, you’d think there was nothing left to be said until the result is announced tomorrow night. And you’d be wrong, because just when you thought you’d seen every last twist […]

Iain’s rather sceptical about Gordon’s comments to Pink News: Gordon Brown’s Record on Gay Rights Gordon Brown has got a nerve. In the Daily Mail today he is putting himself up as some sort of gay rights activist and supporter. But if you actually look at his voting […]

There are days when you’ve just got to laugh… £8m donor to Tory party was delusional, son tells court I have to say that from where I’m sitting that seems to be less a headline and more an axiom but do go on… When David Cameron became leader […]

Hello Evangelical Christians… I understand that you’re a little put out by this whole human rights thing to do with chastity rings, which is why I’m here today to remind you that chastity is not the only Christian virtue. There are others… … like poverty. Poverty is good […]

Another – sort of – update from Tom and one that poses yet more questions, and few answers… Cam came in secret July 17th, 2007 by Tom Why do you think that David Cameron would make his fifth visit to Ealing in secret today? What do people think? […]

This just in… Shocked of Ealing July 17th, 2007 by Tom I’ve just received a phone call, that if true, will mark the most remarkable culmination to one of the most incredible by-elections I have ever worked in. With everything else that’s been going on down there, one […]

Over the last week or so, several Labour bloggers, myself included, have openly warned the Tories that their ham-fisted ‘any vote will do’ campaign strategy in Ealing Southall was likely to draw the unwelcome attention of militant Khalistani nationalists, and sure enough our predictions have proved correct with […]

According to the BBC – ‘Chastity ring’ girl loses case A 16-year-old girl was not discriminated against after she was banned from wearing a “purity ring” in school, the High Court has ruled. Lydia Playfoot was told by Millais School in Horsham, West Sussex, to remove her ring […]