Monday, February 28, 2005

Fathers 4 Justice

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I was in the Press Gallery at Westminster today to see the shambles over house arrest legislation for myself. On the way I passed the Father...
Sunday, February 27, 2005

Where do you go to my lovely?

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One of the more entertaining news stories of last week was Labour's removal of Christine Wheatley from the short-list in Copeland. If yo...

Liverpool lose more than the final

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I have just been listening to the Radio Five Live phone-in after the Carling Cup Final. Thanks to some of the Liverpool fans, it was one of ...

Martin Scorsese defends British cinema

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Yesterday on Serendib I quoted Gilbert Adair's review of Shepperton Babylon from the Spectator . What I did not quote was the part whe...

Pot Noodles may not be good for you shock

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Today's Observer leads with this story : Food giants told: clean up or face prosecution Britain's food safety chief issued a stark ...
Saturday, February 26, 2005

The Rank Organisation has lost its charm

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Sad news in the Guardian : the Rank Organisation has severed the last of its links with film industry by selling "its Deluxe unit, ded...
Friday, February 25, 2005

Teach yourself DCMS

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Here is today's House Points column from Liberal Democrat News . Art for all As John Prescott’s career shows, you can survive as a minis...
Thursday, February 24, 2005

Christian Voice

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Nick Barlow gives this nasty organisation a good hoofing on his What You Can Get Away With blog. It is not clear that the group extends far...

The Power of Nightmares

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In the autumn of the last year the BBC showed Adam Curtis's documentary series The Power of Nightmares . It examined the extent to which...
Wednesday, February 23, 2005

How to bring down Blair

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A new political blog The Returning Officers points out that, were one of the candidates in the Sedgefield constituency to die during the ca...
Tuesday, February 22, 2005

Hunter S Thompson

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So farewell to the great gonzo journalist

Liberal blocks identity cards

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Simon Titley at Liberal Dissenter praises a forgotten Liberal hero - Clarence Willcock. In 1950 he refused to show his identity card to the...
Monday, February 21, 2005

Shepperton Babylon

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A couple of weeks ago I wrote an enthusiastic post about Matthew Sweet's new book Shepperton Babylon . I have now read it and am just a...

Peter Hain on civil liberty

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This book review by Peter Hain, published in the Guardian last year, is full of ironies that he is obviously blind to himself. He is writi...

Charles Darwin explained

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The Shropshire Star reports : A blundering badger sparked a major rescue operation in Shrewsbury after falling more than 20ft into a 200-ye...
Sunday, February 20, 2005

BritBlog Roundup

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Many thanks to Tim Worstall for putting together a Best of British blogging selection - and particular thanks to him for starting his first...

Ambridge riots

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Sometimes it is hard to escape the conclusion that some people working in the public sector would be happiest living in a totalitarian state...
Friday, February 18, 2005

Sayeed saved

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Conservative MP Jonathan Sayeed has survived an attempt to deselect him in a row over allegations he had profited from private tours of Parl...

Listen with Gladstone

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Here is today's House Points column from Liberal Democrat News . Voices over Labour is fighting the general election with verbless sloga...
Thursday, February 17, 2005

More on Ken Livingstone

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There is an article by Jennie Bristow on the Spiked website which takes a similar line to the New Statesman editorial I discussed earlier...