Ministry of Truth

Haven’t done a decent fisk for a while, but then I spotted Marcel Berlins reworking a few tired old arguments and decided that this is too good an chance to get my eye back in to be passing it up… Over to you, Marcel. Time magazine’s “Person of […]

This, from Pickled Politics, is well worth a read, just for the glorious run of pisstakes of Oliver Kamm that I appear to have accidentally set off in the comments. Is the book any good? Buggered if I know, but according to the shill on Amazon, the Times […]

Polly Pot (sans vegetables on this occasion) appears to be having multiple orgasms over David Milliband’s half-arsed proposals for personal carbon quotas… But Miliband’s electric radicalism comes in his plan for personal carbon allowances. Here is where social justice meets green politics for the first time. Give every […]

I guess the title’s a bit of a giveaway that this post is about Christmas and, this being me, you’re already expecting another solid entry for the weekly swearblogger’s round up… …and I have to say that when I do get into this properly, you won’t be disappointed. […]

To save disappointment, if you’ve found your way here via a seach engine and you’re looking for photographs, then sorry you’re going to be bitterly disappointed – try somewhere else. This is just one of those tales that catches the eye as you’re mooching round the net for […]

Very good piece by Political Penguin on a pretty crappy piece of reporting by the BBC. More than £100m of public money is spent on translation services in the UK, the BBC has learned. Local authorities spend £25m, NHS trusts £55m and the courts £31m on interpreting languages. […]

Congratulations and well done to Iain Dale for breaking this story: EXCLUSIVE: Press Stand Accused of Illegal ActivityFollowing up my story yesterday (HERE) on the scandalous conduct of many of our national newspapers and journalists I can now exclusively reveal the contents of a report to be submitted […]

There are good day. There are bad days. And then there are those days that just make you despair of the infantile character of the human race… A Tory councillor who suggested gay people were paedophiles was given a conditional discharge today. Peter Willows, who has been a […]

Apropos of my last post and the Honourable Member (in its double entendre sense) for Monmouth, David – with a nonentit-‘e’ Davies – Laban Tall has kindly popped up in the comments and pointed me towards this fine example of David’s unquestioned commitment to equality and tolerance. Sunday, […]

In every hyperventilated political ‘scandal’ there is, inevitably, backbench MP on the make and desperate to get his name in the paper, and the Tory MP for Monmouth, David Davies, has to be one of the more desperate examples of a political nonentity you’re likely to find anywhere […]