December 11, 2009 at 11:58 pm
Game, Set and Match methinks. This was Browns Press Conference with Sarkozy this morning. Brown and Darling didn’t fall out in the run up to the PBR it seems. In fact. Brown absolutely and certainly didn’t overrule his Chancellor or interfere with the report and his “deficit reduction plan” is right on […]
December 11, 2009 at 10:30 pm
As a fully paid up member of the Dan Hannan for PM Society its a pleasure to post his 10 minute spot at the Adam Smith Institute Christmas Party (even if most of us have heard the joke he kicks off with). Enjoy, if you are a fan of his […]
December 11, 2009 at 9:30 pm
All Seeing Eye blogged recently about some US Navy SEALs who are up for court martial after upsetting an infamous jihadist in the course of apprehending him for the ambush of Blackwater contractors whose bodies were burned and hung on a bridge in Fallujah. Ahmed Hashim Abed accused them of […]
December 11, 2009 at 7:30 pm
Apologies for the awful headline but couldn’t resist. Anyway, nearly three quarters of Germans fear the spread of Islam, according to a survey released on Friday. ADVERTISING A poll by Infratest dimap for public broadcaster ARD showed a third of those asked expressed great concern that Islam was growing too […]
December 11, 2009 at 5:59 pm
Just in case anybody cares, Tiger Woods has obtained an injunction in the UK and elsewhere to ban something, and we aren’t allowed to know what it is. The BBC is, quite responsibly, being very coy about what the injunction covers because the injunction also covers what the injunction covers. […]
December 10, 2009 at 8:09 pm
The beauty of the global warming hoax is that it allows socialists to wallow in their trademark neurotic guilt, baseless sanctimony, and hostility to civilization while imposing all elements of their agenda – including deliberately excessive taxation, suppression of the private sector, totalitarian power for Big Government, degradation of our standard of […]
December 9, 2009 at 8:36 pm
In what appears to be a blatant bit of ratings tourism, Question Time tomorrow comes from Wootton Bassett and is set up to be completely devoted to the war in Afghanistan. The panel will consist of former head of the British Army General Sir Richard Dannatt, Shadow Foreign Secretary William […]
December 9, 2009 at 6:28 pm
Time for an update of The List – the media has again resorted to shrieking that the nonexistent global warming crisis has turned cuddly polar bears into bloodthirsty cannibals: A group of tourists were left horrified when they came across the grisly sight of a polar bear eating a cub in […]
December 9, 2009 at 1:53 pm
Technically true, although Facebook users would disagree and claim that they were duped. A Swedish Facebook group originally promised it would send three kronor (£0.26p/$0.42) to organizations involved in heart research for every member that joined. Membership in the group grew exponentially, quickly climbing into the tens of thousands. But when […]
December 9, 2009 at 1:29 pm
The drum beat against toilet paper is continuing, this time by those oh so responsible and respectable folks at Greenpeace, who are well known for their rational actions: The issue over tissue in the bathroom – the really super-soft stuff – is more like the fight about the big SUVs loved by […]
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