2013-12-03 18:28
This is about the superficially shocking story, brought to the world by Christopher Booker of the Sunday Telegraph, of the Italian woman subjected to a forced Caesarian section by order of a… Read More
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2013-10-03 16:11
This week's Private Eye has an interesting (should you care about such things) item about the future of legendary Mail editor-in-chief Paul Dacre. It reports that Dacre's incentive pac… Read More
2013-09-26 16:51
Here's an interesting graph published today by the Guardian, based on evidence provided by the Office of National statistics.It shows the steady decline in smoking over the past forty years… Read More
2013-09-20 17:19
In honour of Nigel Farage's reputed youthful enthusiasm for Nazi marching songs (which he of course denies) I've composed this little ditty about his outspoken colleague Godfrey Bloom, who g… Read More
2013-09-18 18:54
National Treasure he may be - and pillar of the liberal establishment - but twinkly, avuncular old David Attenborough has long been a Malthusian population bore. So it's not really sur… Read More
2013-09-17 13:03
I've had an idea. It probably isn't a very good one, but I offer it as a provisional solution to the looming problem of overblocking by internet filters that are supposed to protect ch… Read More
2013-09-16 15:53
Here we go againThe niqab is an anachronistic garment that oppresses women. It embodies the idea that women are the property of men, have a lesser status and are repositories of sexual temp… Read More
2013-09-06 19:57
Sixteen year olds registering at a sixth-form college in Barnsley, fabled home of Ian McMillan and Arthur Scargill, were told to fill out a form giving their details to the school authoritie… Read More
2013-09-02 20:24
Here's the strangest revelation to follow from Thursday night's Commons vote, a decision that was both farcical (in the manner it came about) and magnificent (in the way it seems to have rei… Read More
2013-09-02 20:24
Here's the strangest revelation to follow from Thursday night's Commons vote, a decision that was both farcical (in the manner it came about) and magnificent (in the way it seems to have rei… Read More
2013-08-28 16:53
The real test for our political leaders pondering Syria, and one which the evidence of their public utterance would suggest that they're failing, is to separate the principled moral case for… Read More
2013-08-26 20:00
A left-leaning think-tank, the IPPR, has a hare-brained scheme to fix (sorry, ambiguous: mend) British politics: compulsory voting for teenagers. It wants first-time voters (but only first… Read More
2013-08-26 20:00
A left-leaning think-tank, the IPPR, has a hare-brained scheme to fix (sorry, ambiguous: mend) British politics: compulsory voting for teenagers. It wants first-time voters (but only first… Read More
2013-08-14 17:21
The now notorious will of the late Miss Joan Edwards of Bristol can scarcely be described as a masterpiece of clear drafting. It directed that the proceeds of her estate be given to "w… Read More
2013-08-14 17:21
The now notorious will of the late Miss Joan Edwards of Bristol can scarcely be described as a masterpiece of clear drafting. It directed that the proceeds of her estate be given to "w… Read More
2013-08-11 12:34
There's a great parody in the current issue of Private Eye in which Craig Brown pretends to be Richard Dawkins on Twitter. It captures perfectly, with almost documentary verisimilitude… Read More
2013-08-09 13:41
The unauthorised versionDave has been talking about religion. Speaking during a question-and-answer session in Darwen near Blackburn, the Telegraph reports, he described the Bible as "not a… Read More
2013-08-08 18:23
Is the choice of a middle-aged, heterosexual white man as the new Doctor Who actor legal under the 2010 Equality Act?Peter Capaldi might be an excellent actor, he might be the best available… Read More
2013-07-30 16:56
The much-despised "bedroom tax" (actually an under-occupancy penalty, which is the accurate as well as the official description of a reduction in benefit occasioned by the presence of what a… Read More
2013-07-29 18:14
Kate's had a baby. You may have heard. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge has been safely delivered of a prince, an eight pound six ounce bundle of royal boyhood, a George no less… Read More
2013-07-05 22:38
One of the major perks of becoming Pope is a much increased chance of being made a saint after your death. As of this morning, 78 of the 266 officially recognised Roman pontiffs had been ca… Read More
2013-07-04 18:17
Apparently - well, according to the South China Morning Post, as retailed in shocked tones to readers of Telegraph Online by Tim Stanley - there's a trend among China's increasingly prospero… Read More
2013-07-01 13:03
In life, people aspire to be archetypes, but usually end up as stereotypes. Or indeed clichés.Zooey "Im such a manic pixie" DeschanelI wasn't actually aware of the phrase "manic pixi… Read More
2013-06-28 19:54
The case of the Girl Who Ran Off With Her Teacher (and Who Cannot Be Named For Legal Reasons) isn't over yet, despite the fact that Jeremy Forrest has been put away for a wince-inducing five… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
(With apologies to Rupert Brooke)If I should die, think only this of meThat there's some corner of a foreign fieldThat is forever ISIS. There shall beIn oil-rich earth a thicker dust co… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
This is about the superficially shocking story, brought to the world by Christopher Booker of the Sunday Telegraph, of the Italian woman subjected to a forced Caesarian section by order of a… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
David Cameron comes in for a lot of criticism from libertarian and sex-positive types for his morally conservative attitude to internet porn, as shown in his determination to force IP compan… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
This is a guest post by Rev Julian MannBritish secondary schools are now much tougher places for Christian teenagers than they were when I was at school in the 1970s.Political correctness wa… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Are 160 million people really watching Downton Abbey in China, as George Osborne claimed on the Today programme this morning? Probably not. As Tom Chivers points out, the figure was a proj… Read More
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