Fantastic news! Your taxpayer cash is at work! Defra is here to save the day… The Government has today committed £100 million to international forestry projects which provide specific benefits for biodiversity. The money comes from the new international climate finance included in the Comprehensive Spending Review, which will include […]
One of the things about the Daily Telegraph that is annoying is the consistent stream of anti-Palin stories it runs. Take this latest drivel from Alex Spillius. He uses Karl Rove’s patronising comments about Sarah Palin to convey the premise that she is lightweight and lacks “gravitas”. As I have […]
My but it’s nice to be high-minded. Until the body toll becomes unbearable. MI6 Head Sir John Sawers told the Society of Editors in London that the Secret Intelligence Service faced “real constant operational dilemmas” over whether to use intelligence that had been gathered using torture. The 55 year-old former […]
Well then, what did you make of Boris Johnson playing to the electoral gallery and saying he would not allow “Kosovo-style social cleansing” in London, amid a row over housing benefit reforms? Many London MPs are concerned the £400-a-week cap will force people out of the city and the Conservative mayor […]
Question Time tonight comes from Glasgow; twinned with Havana and a Conservative-free zone since 1982. In 2006, 29.4% of the population were on the dole and it has the lowest life expectancy of any UK city. On the panel tonight we have Ed Davey, Nicola Sturgeon Murrell, Chris “Y-Fronts” Bryant, Hugh […]
Ssssshhhhh. Now look, this is just between YOU and ME. You see the BBC don’t want you to know as you can see from this but if you click this you will discover that Mohammed is NOW the most popular name for a baby boy in England and Wales. Cor […]
One of the great things about socialism is that it never learns, it is perpetually stupid. I suppose that is what appeals to leftists. Take Greek Prime Minister Papandreo. Europe’s debt woes have returned to the fore after Greek premier George Papandreou threw open the door to fresh elections and vowed […]
From the much underrated “Saudi Gazette“, this bit of comic genie(us): A licensed “ruqya” reciter of the Qur’an has entered the drama surrounding the Madina judge charged with accepting money to pass verdicts through his court and who claims he was “under a spell” at the time of the alleged […]
Joe Biden is the gift that just keeps giving. Yesterday I reported Ol’ Joe getting his millions and billions mixed up. Well. that’s the sort of thing can happen to anyone, right? So here’s Joe today… “Every single great idea that has marked the 21st century, the 20th century and […]
One of the best laughs of the day has been watching the crestfallen faces of BBC journalists as the UK experienced several instances of good economic news. First it has to report, through gritted teeth, that the economy has grown faster than “the experts” predicted during the past few months. […]
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