Ministry of Truth

Okay, so fisking the Sun’s hardly a demanding task, but this particular story just deserves getting the full treatment… THE decision to excuse a Muslim cop from guarding the Israeli Embassy was last night branded “the beginning of the end for British policing”. Of course no good story […]

With today being the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street, I thought I’d continue on the general theme of ‘extremism‘ I started last week and, in particular, pick up on Gavin’s comment… Just to be awkward I’d suggest that the biggest trouble to humanity is not […]

Despite coming from opposing ends of the conventional political spectrum, it’s not that often that I find myself inclined to take issue with DK over one of posts, but every so often an exception arises as here with his comments on the spectacularly incompetent efforts of a would-be […]

Of all George Orwell’s essays, the one to which political bloggers should pay most attention is his May 1945 essay, ‘Politics and the English Language’. In fact I would go so far as to suggest that it should be considered required reading for anyone with aspirations of writing […]

I know that speeches to party conferences are traditionally long on rhetoric and short on detail but reading through some of the speeches published on the Labour website from this year’s conference I couldn’t help but notice this one, from Jack Straw, which stands as a genuine masterpiece […]

Right, I’m back after my summer recess and I’m going to kick things off with a bit of a question… Having watched Bloggerheads and others doing a very nice job of outing David Taylor, a part time researcher to Leighton Andrews AM, as the ‘ringer’ behind the Blairite […]

The first object of any tyrant in Whitehall would be to make Parliament utterly subservient to his will, and the next to overthrow or dimimish trial by jury. [It] is more than an instrument of justice and more than one wheel of the constitution: it is the lamp […]

  …is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think – HL Mencken Hey look, lads, Claire Curtis-Thomas is back again with her top-shelf campaign, this time using the Graun’s right to reply facility […]

The traditional election night could come to an end because of new voting laws, the elections minister has said. The new laws mean election officials have to check signatures and dates of birth of postal voters – something they say cannot be done in one night. Democracy Minister […]

Episode # – shit I’ve lost count – in the new reality show that’s sweeping the nation, the commentariat -vs- bloggerati, and it’s time for the Indy’s Yasmin Alibhai-Brown to wade into the fray on the side of the pro’s… Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Hounded by assaults from cyberspace Where […]