Ret’s have with some right hearted sirriness from the Rand of the Rising Sun. With the very real prospect that there will be a ‘female’ runner at the next Olympics whose name is an anagram of ‘yes, a secret man‘ and other general moonbat-itude, we learn that the whole future […]

On October 1, 1949, Mao Zedong led the Communist Party of China into power. Since then, anywhere between 35 to 65 million people have been killed in China by the communists. The Great Leap Forward was the second five year plan implemented by Mao in 1959. It was intended to […]

In another entry from the We’re All Doomed Department, a Swedish couple have finally succeeded in their legal campaign for their son to have the crap royally kicked out of him at school to be called Q, overturning two previous rulings by lower courts. Parents of a Jämtland boy learned […]

One in a series of Questions To Which The Answer Is No, but a diverting story for the Brussels chattering classes nevertheless. The President of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Klaus, may apparently face impeachment if he does not sign the EU Constitution Lisbon Treaty according to The Economist’s Charlemagne. (Hat […]

In yet another masterly procurement move, the UK Ministry of Defence has decided to spend hundreds of millions of pounds upgrading and restoring its aged Puma helicopters – which were due to retire next year – for service in Afghanistan. This will cost more than buying a fleet of brand […]

Breaking news from the Land of the Dead Tree Press tonight – the graveyard shift of the newspaper reviews on 24 hour news channels bring us this devastating news for McDoom. Iain Dale MP will be cursing that he has the night off. With the headline “Labour’s Lost It” The Sun says that […]

The BBC is on entertainingly xenophobic form in Germany, it seems. In his first press conference after the election Guido Westerwelle, Germany’s newly designated foreign minister, refused to answer a question in English for a BBC reporter who had been sent to report on the German election…despite the fact that he […]

Channel 4 ‘Dispatches’ this evening will be bringing us a heartwarming tale of Care In The Community. This old gentleman used to spend hours on end sleeping through his day in a purpose-built nursing home in the heart of W1 with only the company of other geriatrics peacefully snoring on […]

It’s no exaggeration to say that the most anticipated Question Time of the year will be the one featuring Nick Griffin MEP on 22nd October. Fraser Nelson, who acquitted himself quite reasonably in last Thursday’s QT tourney, runs with news on the Spectator site that Labour are abandoning their previous stance of empty-chairing the […]

Here we call it ‘silly season; in Denmark it’s ‘agurktid’, or cucumber season – the dry period over the summer holiday weeks when small filler items are needed to make the running in the news. This year, however, has been the exception. There has been a steady flow of stories which […]