…which is slightly ironic as the religion he argues against is the motivation for some people to think about heading in the other direction. Watch it here: At this rate we’ll need an industrial strength rivet-gun to keep up with the quantity of nails going into the coffin of Jacqui Smith’s political career. The […]

Note to no-cause-too-slimy litigators Peter Carter-Ruck & Partners – the Bill of Rights may date from 1688 (which of course to McDoom’s henchmen makes it too old to be relevant and probably the fault of Lady Thatcher or something) but it hasn’t been abolished yet. The Guardian has been hit […]

It seems that France’s Culture Minister Frederic Mitterand, nephew of former President Francois Mitterand, is in a spot of hot water. Four years ago he wrote about paying for sex with young boys in Thailand – an admission which went largely unremarked at the time. However his recent defence of […]

After six months of not being represented in the House of Commons, the drug addicts and dole scroungers in one of the most economically depressed parts of the world United Kingdom will finally have a chance to elect a replacement for trougher, hypocrite, liar, expenses cheat and all-round prejudiced chip-on-shoulder […]

Thanks to ‘banned’ in the Comments thread on the Newsnight post below for posting a link to this YouTube clip – that interview but with subtitles for the hard of understanding. Visit him here; highly recommended blogging.

It was a classic bout. The fight of the decade, the clash of the titans: Johnson -vs- Paxman, duking it out for the World Heavyweight Title in Manchester. It didn’t even get to the judges. Paxman jabbed and weaved but The Hair From Henley had the measure of his opponent […]

Cross-posted from All Seeing Eye co-conspirator G.O.T.’s haunt. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

If you were forced – absolutely forced – to list your top 10 examples of how, at the fag end of a dying Government each and every authoritarian wannabe is trying to jump on the Jolly Bandwagon of Stupidity as it heads towards the cliff, then this would be a […]

The Eurocrats can smell victory in the water as the blood of the Irish electorate reaches their shark-like noses and there is a sense that they have almost got their way with the unloved EU Constitution. President Vaclav Klaus of the Czech Republic has already said that he accepts the […]

It seems as though wherever we look there are elections going on at the moment, except in the country which is crying out for one most – the UK. Tomorrows vote is in the country which gave us democracy, uzo, the Ancient Olympics and the book How To Bankrupt Yourself […]