Ministry of Truth

Oh for fuck’s sake! Here’s Cameron in the Graun ‘launching a new internet initiative because politicians urgently need to find new ways of engaging with the public’. Right now, our political culture is undergoing unprecedented transformation. The old answers will not work in a new age, and political […]

Even by the usual standards of Home Office casuistry you’d have to go some to top Liam Byrne’s current article on Comment is Free, which he also manages to drop right in the middle of week long debate on the politics of race and identity. Deporting illegal migrants […]

It was the grand old Fabian, George Bernard Shaw, who opined that ‘youth is wasted on the young”, and every so often one comes across evidence to support just such a contention, as in the case of this “strategy for taking on the Tory leader” posted on the […]

I’ve just been catching up with the comments on Sunny’s main commentary over at Comment is Free, when I noticed one response in particular that fair demanded that I be a little naughty and lift a copy of it in its entirety to comment on here. And this […]

Fresh from the file marked ‘Haven’t you twats got something better to do?’ comes this latest sorry tale of bureaucratic stupidity… Name warning for dragon sausages A food company has been warned it could face legal action over the name of its Welsh Dragon Sausages. Trading standards said […]

Curious Hamster offers up an intriguing little tale of comment censorship over at the Daily Torygraph… Last night, I noticed that “journalist” Con Coughlin has a blog at the Telegraph. His latest post references the “Iran is taking over al-Qaeda – nuclear armageddon – we’re all going to […]

Here’s a question for you. Is it possible, do you think, to find a newspaper columnist who’s opinions are so far ‘out there’ that they make even the apocalyptic world of Mad Mel Phillips look like an oasis of sanity in and insane world? (And before any starts, […]

So little time, so much ground to cover… One of real pleasures, and also sometimes frustrations, of blogging is that you can never be quite sure just how your readers will react to your views and what, if any, comments you might get by way of a response […]

In terms of the generalities of both Jon Cruddas’s and Mike Ion’s recent comments on the resurgence of the far-right, and particularly the BNP, I find myself in broad agreement with both. Yes, I would certainly agree that it is important that we carry the fight to the […]

It’s difficult to know quite which is the least enticing prospect; that of the government setting up its own ‘Ministry of Propaganda’ to promote ‘British values’ to the Muslim community as part of ‘The War Against Terror’ (T.W.A.T) – I know, altogether now, ‘whaddya mean ‘setting up’? – […]