Ah, pure Oz genius. Is this some sort of Ashes defeat escapism? A COUPLE floating down Melbourne’s Yarra River on inflatable dolls have been rescued after getting into trouble. Police say the 19-year-old couple had just passed Pound Bend Tunnel at Warrandyte North when the water became turbulent and the […]

News from Canada, where to the horror of 80’s music fans the Dire Straits massive hit “Money for Nothing” has just been permanently banned from the airwaves for thought crimes. The song, from the Brothers In Arms album, contains the word “faggot”, and of course that part of the victimocracy is […]

Tonight the first Question Time of the new year comes from London. David Dimbleby will be with Michael Gove MP, Diane Abbott MP, Charles Kennedy MP, right-on lesbian novelist and delicatessen owner Jeanette Winterson and Dragon’s Den judge Nazim Khan who now calls himself James Caan since watching “Godfather”. For […]

Today is the by-election in Oldham and Saddleworth. The previous MP for the area, Phil Woolas (Labour, just in case you rely on the BBC for news and therefore aren’t sure) was removed from the House of Commons after lying about his political rivals so far above and beyond the […]

For years Labour and the MoD have been battling to outspend each other on big budget shiny defence projects at the expense of effective purchasing. They were at their finest when the spending was mutually beneficial – Labour buying votes in shipyard towns with MoD brass also auditioning for retirement […]

Some interesting statistics released to Parliament yesterday (no, honestly!). If the ECHR gets its way, and it seems that the Government is indeed going to roll over and play dead, 28,770 prisoners who are serving a sentence of less than four years will now get the vote. That number includes […]

We haven’t taken a look at the indispensable Austrian Times for a while, but here’s an interesting thought which might strike a chord in the UK: Dole bosses in Romania are adopting new laws banning people from claiming benefits if they own a camera. Under the new rules people who […]

A reminder, as if we needed one, that the grim horror of Question Time returns tomorrow Thursday the 13th for the first show of 2011. It’s BBC bias in the raw; at its most blatant and visceral. As usual we’ll be hosting a live chat here starting at 10:30pm and […]

In Canada last August, police arrested several suspected terrorists who had circuit boards that could be used to remotely detonate bombs. They have since been charged and are awaiting trial. But the police say they made one mistake – they made the arrests during the “holy” month of Ramadan. As […]

And so the beat goes on…..*sigh*. A contribution today from one of the most badly assembled human beings ever made – for it is she: A MP has backed calls for the DNA screening of all men in Bristol as part of the hunt for the murderer of Jo Yeates. […]