For those readers interested in Funny British Ways, here is another one. We here have a body called the Press Complaints Commission which presides over a Code of Practice giving some rather specific guidleines on how the ‘press’ whould behave. Here they are. If a member of the public is […]
A zany but prominent piece in this morning’s Guardian, asserting that the newspaper has been ‘prevented for reporting Parliamentary proceedings on legal grounds’: Today’s published Commons order papers contain a question to be answered by a minister later this week. The Guardian is prevented from identifying the MP who has […]
Craig Murray has a good posting on the important interview between Iain Dale and Michal Kaminski. It just shows where things now stand when a mere Blogger does what no so-called serious MSM journalist has done, and talks to the person at the centre of a controversy to hear what […]
Jonah G (not to be confused with Whoopi G) describes the good news in the Polanski arrest saga: That brings us to the even more refreshing aspect of this controversy: It is not a Left-Right issue. I’m not normally one to celebrate bipartisan unity, but it’s nice to know there […]
The Polanski story is creating a buzz, as one might expect. My friend Anne Applebaum has been criticised for not declaring an interest. And as for Whoopi Goldberg who helpfully gives us a new feministic distinction between ‘rape’ and ‘rape-rape’?! More here. This is an easy one. What Polanski did was […]
This is excellent. Really excellent. It shows how politicians now are baffled by the idea that they are there for us. No, we are here for them, and on their terms.
Lordy. The BBC on the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact: The pact was signed by German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and his Russian counterpart, Vyacheslav Molotov, in Moscow. It led to the carving-up of Poland between Nazi Germany and the USSR, as well as the annexation by the USSR of eastern Finland, […]
This Washington Post article makes a deft case for the claim that the anonymous Joker/Socialist posters of President Obama are really racist: Although Ledger was white, and the Joker is white, this equation of the wounded and the wounding mirrors basic racial typology in America. Urban blacks — the thinking […]
Craig Murray swings at President Clinton for being photographed with the ‘appalling’ Gulnara Karimova, the not unattractive daughter of the leader of Uzbekistan. Just why Clinton is posing with the appalling Gulnara Karimova is unclear. But it might well relate to the continued efforts by the Obama administration to improve […]
Tom Watson MP opposes privatising Radio 1: Radio One provides unique high quality content to a young audience. It engages them in important social action campaigns and provides a first class news service, second to none on any other BBC network. That’s before you begin to look at its broad […]
