Ministry of Truth

Paul Staines has got his hands on another internal campaign briefing – this time from the Hilary Benn campaign, and has gone off on one his usual half-witted Witch Hunts… The author of this document is Blair McDougall, he is Ian McCartney’s Special Adviser (SpAds). Ian is Hilary […]

One of the more amusing developments since last Thursday’s elections – other than Violet Elizabeth Dale’s ‘thcweam, and thcweam and thcwaem until I’m thick’ routine in the face of the media’s stolid insistence on reporting the facts of the election results (no Tory breakthrough) rather than the Tory […]

Local elections are funny things at the best of times and while we wait for the results of those councils who delayed their count to today to see if the picture that emerged overnight holds true – No Labour meltdown, Tories hit the ‘magic’ 40% without making a […]

I must admit that, today, the Guardian have surpassed themselves. If there could possibly be a less edifying spectacle that yesterday’s foray into futility, which the Guardian billed as an live ‘debate’ about on-line ‘civility’ with Tessa Jowell, it could only be the sight of self-appointed blogging ‘expert’, […]

She means well, I’m sure. I do tell myself that she means well, but of all things to raise right now the very last thing that Tessa Jowell should touch on is this: Civility in ‘ourspace’ Should we introduce a blogging code of conduct to increase the quality […]

Mmm… I’m not normally one for taking too conspiratorial a line on things, especially when that leads me to veer in the direction of something suggested by John Hemming, but in this case I’ll make something of a minor exception. Only yesterday, John Hemming responded to the arrest […]

Paul Staines’s take on the resignation of BP Chairman Lord Browne – with that of his usual coterie of comment-box fuckwits – is a veritable master-class in how to peddle a flimsy pile of bullshit even after the facts have been published and turn out to be as […]

Following swiftly on from one Lib Dem’s wife being arrested on suspicion of involvement in electoral fraud in Nechell’s, the Stirrer are now reporting that two more Lib Dems, may have been arrested in the different part of the city in relation to offences that may have been […]

The problem with taking the moral high ground that its only good for as long as you can stay there… Lib Dem wife in vote fraud arrest The wife of a Liberal Democrat candidate has been arrested by detectives investigating potential vote-rigging at next week’s local elections in […]

(I was actually pulling this together before getting wind of Dale’s descent in script-kiddiedom – see previous post – hence the title) Well it’s nice to see Britain’s premier ‘blogging expert’, Iain Dale, maintaining his usual consistency when reporting on stories about the BBC – i.e. thick and […]