The Guardian’s Fred Pearce seems to be confused

The Guardian is not the first place one expects to see stories jumping on the “climategate” bandwagon, but they made a big splash this week with this story by Fred Pearce.
Phil Jones, the beleaguered British climate scientist at the centre of the leaked emails controversy, is facing fresh claims that he sought to hide problems [...]

Daily Mail spreading climate change misinformation again

Note: This piece has been updated on 15th December
The Daily Mail seems to have found yet more evidence to persuade its readers that they should be skeptical of man-made global warming. This piece by David Rose has two startling revelations - that both proxy data and an important diagram in an IPCC report were manipulated [...]

Speaker’s wife in “didn’t spend college days doing ironing” shock!

I can’t say I have any interest in the recent revelations about Sally Bercow, wife of the speaker - what people got up to in their college days is a matter for them as far as  I’m concerned. However, I couldn’t help noticing this in the Mail on Sunday yesterday.
Mrs Bercow, 40, shocked the Commons [...]

So long Vic Mackey

So it’s over - the last ever episode of The Shield was aired on Monday night. It was one of the greatest TV cops shows ever, possibly the greatest,* and in corrupt detective Vic Mackey, portrayed superbly by Michael Chiklis, it had one of the most compelling central characters in the history of the genre.
The [...]

Illiterate headline of the year

OK, I know it’s the Sun and you expect headlines to be written in tabloidese, and you expect the misuse of the pronoun “one” in any story about the royal family. But although I haven’t read the story in detail I’m pretty certain that they didn’t mean to suggest that someone shagged the Queen in [...]

Mel says “Yes 2 ID”

Those of us who are familiar with the views of Melanie Phillips are aware that she is nothing if not a champion of unpopular causes, and can only admire her persistence in continuing to fight her corner even when all of the available evidence is stacked against her. For example she still steadfastly refuses to believe that there [...]

A tribute to Oliver Postgate

Oliver Postgate, creator of some of our best loved children’s TV shows, has died aged 83.
For those of us who were growing up in the sixties and seventies his programmes (created with collaborator Peter Firmin) are an integral part of or childhood memories and I have fond recollections of watching the Pogles, Noggin the Nog, [...]

Pot, kettle (or possibly…fish, barrel)

One aspect of the Damian green saga which seems to have upset some people is the suggestion that he was “grooming” his mole, the objection being that this phrase is often associated with predatory paedophiles and was therefore inappropriate in this case.
One person who has particularly taken offence is Richard Littlejohn
In her [Jacqui Smith's] [...]

Watching “Dog Borstal” is good for you

I have to say that the current furore about John Sergeant leaving Strictly Come Dancing has rather gone over my head. Not being particularly interested in dancing or minor celebrities I have no great desire to watch minor celebrities dancing but hey, it may be populist tat but there’s nothing neccessarily wrong with that if [...]

Baby P…a voice of reason

Great post by Unity at Liberal Conspiracy on the subject of Baby P. I would encourage anyone to read it before passing judgement based only on what they have read in the press or seen on TV news.

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