Ministry of Truth

There are two things that define blogging as a social networking activity. One is the ability to comment on posts – which is why the likes of Oliver Kamm and Mad Mel Phillips are not bloggers – the other is the ability to refer to posts (and even […]

Local politics tends to throw up the odd bizarre story here and there, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything to match this one: Tory candidate joins UKIP A CONSERVATIVE candidate in the Worcester city council elections has plunged her party into chaos by secretly joining the […]

I’ve noted previously that one of our local newspapers, the Express and Star, appears to have developed a somewhat remarkable propensity for either ignoring or downplaying local stories that might reflect poorly on the BNP, hence the paper’s coverage of the closure of the Lagoon Public House in […]

It’s difficult to know quite what to make of the news that George Ashcroft, a Tory local election candidate in Telford, was at one time the Midlands regional organiser for the National Front, albeit that he was known in those days as Wayne Ashcroft. Mmm… what is with […]

All credit to Jeremy Kite, Tory Leader of Dartford Council, for taking the time to give his side of the story after I picked on a story in the Evening Standard about a website he’d set up which purported to stop voters being ‘bothered’ by canvassers in the […]

Every once in a while, Polly Toynbee manages to spring a surprise on bloggers and come up with something that’s really rather good… Now Lily Allen is to join Sir Elton John and the rest at Wembley stadium for Diana’s birthday concert. But there is something creepy about […]

Regular visitors will, I’m sure, understand perfectly well why I was intrigued, to say the least, by this post at Ridiculous Politics… Tonight’s London Evening Standard has uncovered a Tory Party internet scam – Tories have been caught trying to get voters to disclose their voting intentions with […]

Both Bob Piper and Tom Watson have picked up on the forthright views of senior – in every sense – Sandwell Tory councillor Bill Archer, who is less than complimentary in his assessment of David Cameron’s leadership. “He’s just totally out of touch with the law and order […]

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Iain Dale seems to be suffering from short-term memory loss. Here he is introducing a typically vapid commentary on female voting habits in today’s Torygraph… Here’s something for Polly Toynbee to ponder on. It’s a startling fact that if women had never had the vote, Britain would have […]