Ministry of Truth

I’ve just finished watching tonight’s Panorama, which was a follow-up to a programme earlier this year about continuing care for the elderly. If you didn’t see it, you can find the link to watch the show online on this page – go on, watch it. In fact if […]

It hasn’t taken long for some the wrinkles in Dr Demento‘s grand plan to appease the tabloids… err, I mean rebalance the criminal justice system in favour of better headlines… err, I mean victims, to start emerging… I cannot go one day without having to confirm to a […]

So Dr Demento (hat tip to Simon Carr – needs ‘you know what’ juicing) has resurfaced with his 24 point plan to straighten out the criminal justice system, for which the Beeb have helpfully provided a handy little summary/guide. Yes, all very useful – although I must admit […]

It’s Smashy and Nicey time, folks (na nah naah na-na-naah na na na-naaaaah) – yes it’s time for the ‘avoiding the question’ chart rundown… . And surprisingly – if most of the answers are anything to go by – at number 10 its the Home Office, who’ve knocked […]

Apropos of my last post and my comments about Steve Moore and Policy Unplugged, I’ve been looking into this whole ‘unconference’ thing he mentioned and turned up this from Wikipedia… An unconference is a conference where the content of the sessions is driven and created by the participants, […]

To no one’s great surprise, the news that a survey commissioned by Julia Hobsbawn’s fledgling PR meets the professional commentarati project, Editorial Intelligence (oxymoron anyone?), has identified Polly Toynbee as the ‘columnist of choice for opinion leaders‘ (whatever the fuck one of those is when its at home) […]

Bit of a Wat Tyler question for you today… Q. What costs the taxpayer in excess of £60,000 a year and provides nothing in return? A. Parliamentary questions to which the only answer given is that the information could be provided only at disproportionate cost. Seriously, having done […]

Congratulations to Andrew Brown for asking the question of the week, "Why are we [bloggers] all so nasty?" before adding, "People are such arseholes online because they write as they expect journalists to do." Huh? Thankfully Andrew goes on to explain what he means: I think that the […]

Got a major post in the pipeline on loans for peerages, casinos for cowboy outfits and a few odds and ends of alleged governmental dodgy dealing, which I’ll probably be able to post later tonight but in the mean time, how about one of those ‘did you know’ […]

Within the Labour movement, I think we can take it as read that we all understand the importance of tackling racist political partieshead on – you know exactly who I mean; that’s something we can all agree on, I should think, even if we sometimes differ in our […]