Ministry of Truth

Over at the Yorkshire Ranter, Alex, who came within a whisker of absolutely nailing the Prescott/Dome/Casino story a month a year before anyone else started sniffing around it, has done a bit more digging of his own and turned up another interesting piece of information from a report […]

More information seems to be emerging on the dealings between Anschutz and the UK Government in this morning’s Indy. For one thing, Anschutz donated $1.5 million to the London Olympic bid in addition to sending what the Indy describe as a ‘key lieutenant’ from AEG to advise on […]

A point seemingly lost on the BBC in the last couple of days is by far the main reason that the Prescott-Anschutz connection is getting so much attention is that the more we look into things, the more we find things that just don’t appear to add up. […]

Considering the amount of time and effort that the BBC are currently putting into whinging about bloggers over the whole Prescott/Anschutz business, you might think they’d be just a tad more careful about waving a red rag in the blogosphere’s face… …but no, this morning finds Newsnight’s Paul […]

From a series of posts on his blog,- [1] [2] [3] & [4] its looks very much as if both myself and Iain Dale have been simultaneously working on the same question – just what was John Prescott actually doing in visiting Colorado-based Billionaire, Phillip Anschutz, at his […]

It seems, of late, that I’m one of few bloggers who’s warped enough to eschew the now ritualised twice-weekly slaughter of the lesser-brained Toynbee (see that’s what happens when you ban fox-hunting, the buggers only go off and find themselves a new bloodport) in favour a rather more […]

Courtesy of the Beeb… Impotency rub-on gel developed A rub-on gel could be the first over-the-counter treatment for impotency, a company has announced. It is being developed by Futura Medical in collaboration with pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline. The treatment, called MED2002, is expected to go into clinical trials at […]

Okay, I’ve used this image before, but in the circumstances it’s well worth digging up again…

At long last, the World Cup has produced a game worthy of taking centre-stage in the world’s most important sporting event. If you didn’t catch tonight’s semi-final game between Germany and Italy, then I would recommend you make sure you sit up to the small hours for the […]

If there’s one lesson in politics that Tony Blair has yet to learn, it must sure be that genuine political legacies rarely come about by design but rather by accident. For as much as Churchill was of the opinion that "history will be kind to me for I […]