Ministry of Truth

Welcome to part 647 in the Chronicle of Mad Mel Phillips’ inexorably descent into total insanity, which today seems to be accelerating, hence… The British Broadcasting Jihad The extent and implications of the BBC’s bias towards the enemies of western civilisation is still not properly understood, even by […]

One can’t help but credit Luke Akehurst for his predictive abilities… This is probably a sure-fire way to make myself political toast with Labour colleagues… …if not for his judgment of character. but I actually feel rather sorry for Donald Rumsfeld and find the gloating at his resignation […]

It’s been one of those weeks in which the universe seems determined to disply its sense of irony to fullest. On Sunday, we discover that Saddam Hussein is to hang… …and on Wednesday his old mucker, Donnie Rumsfeld finds himself out of a job. Meanwhile, and on the […]

There’s been a couple of noteworthy responses to Mr Eugenides fisking of Polly Pot’s recent Blairite love-in that, in turn, deserve a response. Tom, at Let’s Be Sensible, seems to be trying to be, well, sensible in taking issue with Mr E’s humourous commentary on vegetable masturbation and […]

Every so often one finds a politician making a comment or statement in which something causes you to pause for a second and say to yourself, ‘just what, exactly, are they actually saying here?’ Such a statement can be found right at the beginning of Tony Blair’s recent […]

Let’s get the gossip out of the way nice and early. Britney Spears is to divorce her husband, Kevin Federline, who has adopted the ridiculous name of K-Fed in an effort to launch a career as a (c)rapper. Perhaps he should have chosen a name more after the […]

Let’s get the recommendations out of the way first. Over at Comment is Free, AC Grayling does a fine job of dismantling Tony Blair’s defence of ID cards, on which I’ll have a little more to say in due course. Henry Porter, writing on the same subject, is […]

One of the occasional joys of popping in to view Mad Mel’s latest bout of inchoate raving is that even when life conspires to throw her the kind of bone that should see her securely anchored on the safest of ground, she still manages to make a complete […]

So Saddam is to hang after the least surprising verdict since the massed ranks of the European viewing public decided that our last entry into the Eurovision song contest was a complete bag of shite. Meanwhile, George Bush, a man well known, from his time as Governor of […]

I cannot pass up the opportunity to comment on what has to be one of the more glorious examples of errant casuistry I’ve seen from a blogger in a very long time. Commenting on last week’s attempt by Plaid Cymru (and the SNP) to push for a parliamentary […]