Ministry of Truth

One of more curious aspects of the Farepak fiasco has been the incredulity that has characterised some of the reaction to it, as much as to suggest a general air of disbelief that such things as savings clubs, and the people who use them, even exist in this […]

Wahey, it’s arrived! The Blog Digest 2007, I mean – and bloody good stuff it is, too (and I’m not just saying that because I’m in it). Like his predecessor, Tim Worstall, Justin McKeating of the inspirational* Chicken Yoghurt, has done a fine job of collecting together a […]

If a report in the New Statesman (newly redesigned and, like the Indy, subscription firewall free) is correct, then Lord Nazir Ahmed may shortly be re-styling himself not Britian’s first Muslim, Labour, Peer but as Britain’s first Muslim, Crossbench, Peer, assuming he doesn’t just cross the floor the […]

Right, this post needs a big opening. Cue lights… Cue Scenary… Cue Richard Strauss… And… ACTION! Dahhh Dahhh Daaaaaaaaaaaaah Dah Dahhh (boom-boom boom-boom boom-boom boom-boom) Dahhh Dahhh Daaaaaaaaaaaaah Da-Daaaaaaahhh (boom-boom boom-boom boom-boom boom-boom) CUUUUUUTTTTT! Right, which one of you bastards forgot to order the apes? … There are […]

Curiously, as its only Thursday (and they usually dump their shit on Fridays), today sees a new press release from the office of Dr Demento (© Simon Carr). I’m not sure whether I should inflict on you that much of the usual, by the numbers, preambulatory bullshit that […]

The petition has been approved and is ready to be signed – just follow the link… http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/libellaws/ (it does help if I put the bloody link in as well) To be clear about what kind of things I am advocating when I suggest that we adopt US-style libel […]

The decision by blogger Jackie Danicki to publish a photograph of a man she alleges to have assaulted her on a tube train (Jackie’s site is down at present, so no direct link) and request help in identifying her attacker appears to have prompted the usual bout of […]

Having a background in psychology, I should be entirely comfortable with the outcome of a new criminological study into street crime that demonstrates that the underlying motives for such crime can be rather more complex than mere acquisition. And yet, instead, I find myself unable to shake the […]

I’ve seen some excuses in my time but the latest from the ongoing Serious Fraud Office investigation into BAE’s dealings with the Saudi’s take the absolute biscuit: Secret payments of millions of pounds from Britain’s biggest arms company have been found in Swiss accounts linked to Wafic Said, […]

I could, and probably will, write a lengthy and considered piece about the absurdity of Press Complaints Commission director Tim Toulmin’s suggestion that blogs should be covered by a voluntary code of practice – not such a thing would apply to MoT as but for out own berserker […]