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.
Conor Foley book launch report
As promised…
On Thursday evening I went along to the launch of Conor Foley’s book Thin Blue Line, which took the form of a debate on humanitarian intervention and Western foreign policy between Foley, Oliver Kamm and Dennis McShane (who had to leave early so I won’t dwell on his contribution).
Foley started off by giving a [...]
More on Mad Mel
Those nice people at Liberal Conspiracy have let me write a piece there on Mel’s anti-Obama hysteria.
By the way, can anyone explain to me the difference between these two statements?
“They are the people who, by smearing every conceivable criticism of Obama or revelation of his unsavoury associations as ‘racist’, have emptied the term of its [...]
Speechless….
Ever read something that has left you physically unable to speak for some time? Well Mad Mel has a piece on her Spectator blog today denouncing….people who are reacting hysterically to the US election!!!!!
If satire died when Henry Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize then Mel has just dug it back up and then given [...]
Now THIS should be interesting…
The Thin Blue Line: How Humanitarianism Went to War’ by Conor Foley - Launch & discussion
At this Foreign Policy Centre and Verso Books event, humanitarian aid worker Conor Foley will outline the thesis of his new book, ‘The Thin Blue Line: How Humanitarianism Went to War’, and Rt Hon Dr Denis MacShane MP and Oliver [...]
That Joke Isn’t Funny Any More
I have to say that Mutantblog is usually second to no-one in its admiration for Melanie Phillips. The fact that despite the sheer bonkersness of her opinions being matched only by the forthrightness with which she delivers them she manages to command such a high profile in the MSM - columns in the Mail and [...]
We’re all doomed!
Exciting times as scientists at CERN prepare to switch on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on Wednesday. Over the course of the next months and years some of the really big questions in science could be answered; will they prove the existence of the Higgs boson, the “god particle”? Will they discover the nature of [...]
Who needs the BNP…
I didn’t see this on the newsstands but Anton Vowel at Enemies of Reason brought it to my attention.
Of course they will no doubt come up with the usual spurious nonsense to justify it…”raising legitimate concerns” etc. and will claim that people who complain are trying to “shut down debate about immigration”. Well bollocks - [...]
Lottery winner? Well who picked his numbers?
There was much outrage in The Sun yesterday over Colin Stagg’s £700k compensation award, his remark that he felt “like a lottery winner” and the relative paucity of the payouts to 7/7 victims. The Mail had a similar headline, although the story seems to have been toned down slightly on its website.
Now Stagg’s remarks about winning the lottery [...]