Ministry of Truth

Much as I’ve got a lot of time, personally, for Tom Watson and know enough about both the Yew Tree and Tamebridge area and the work of its Resident’s Association to be sure that good cause he’s currently promoting on his website is worthy of support, nevertheless I […]

Ordinarily I’m a great supporter of dear old Auntie Beeb and not one to be overly concerned by the near routine complaints of bias that it faces from all directions. As I see it, if the Beeb succeeds in drawing such complaints from all directions in roughly equal […]

Over the Kitchen, DK not only refrains from his usual line in invective but relates a rather disturbing story about the use of Chip and Pin cards which resulted in this statement being made by a senior member of staff in HBOS’s retail banking division… Up to 40 […]

Aside from being a day for dissecting the latest set of gushings from dear old Polly Pot, Friday is also Home Office press release day (particularly when there are unpromising statistics that need burying). And so, on the Labour Party website, we find that Dr Demento doing his […]

On the back of the release of the report ‘Doing God: A future for faith in the public square‘ by the Theos ‘think-tank’, AC Grayling not only describes the report as ‘confused’ – discursive, meandering, sophistic, would all have been equally valid adjectives – but also gives the […]

It’s Friday and Polly Pot is in full flow – and remember the Graun have coughed up around £1,400 for what follows. Labour needs a woman at the top to win female votes back from Cameron It is amazing that Labour has lost the backing of those who […]

Apropos of Kerron’s tale of cat meets firework, comes this story from the Beeb, which speaks for itself… Backside firework prank backfires A man suffered internal burns when he tried to launch a rocket from his bottom on Bonfire Night. Paramedics found the 22-year-old bleeding, with a Black […]

It’s not often I have anything positive to say about the Lib Dems, but just for today I’ll make an exception in the case of their proposed ‘Freedom Bill’ or ‘Great Repeal Bill’, which they also called it. Okay, so its pretty much a gimmick with little real […]

I’ve taken the time to add another of Orwell’s essays, ‘Anti-Semitism in Britain’, to the sidebar and for no better reason that I consider it to be worth reading. By way of a related matter, to my mind at least, an article of Mad Mel’s on which I […]

I wonder, what do you think are likely to be the main outcomes/repercussions of the Democrat’s victory in the US mid-term elections? One we certainly know already; the resignation of Donald Rumsfeld, who quickly identified himself as the Bush Administration’s designated fall-guy, but, beyond that, what else is […]