Does anyone know whether idiocy is a transmissable illness, because it seems to be catching in a big way in some circles.
Flag-burning law plan criticised
Human rights groups have opposed a plan by police chiefs to make flag-burning by protesters a new criminal offence.
No-o-o-o Shit!

The Liberal Democrats and Liberty said new legislation was unnecessary because [...]

Doing a bit of work on a new web project, on which I’ll have more to say later this week, but one thing I can say from working on some of the design elements is that when it comes to working on graphics for the Internet, our dear old Rose logo is an absolute dog [...]

Local (i.e. Birmingham) newspaper, The Sunday Mercury, has an interesting tale to tell this week. If its report is to be believed then the BNP is in pretty serious financial trouble having made a loss of around £94,000 in the last year and leaving the party with debts of around £52,000.
To make matters worse for [...]

Via Tom Watson, I discover that yesterday the ordinarily quite sensible Chairman of the Home Affairs Committee, John Denham, appears to have suffered a mental aberration of sorts and suggested in the House that offenders undertaking community service should wear uniforms and that unemployed offenders should receive longer sentences than those in employment.
Convicted offenders who [...]

Without fanfare and with precious little attention from seemingly any of the core Eustonistas, it would appear that Norman Geras has quietly and self-effacingly recanted his once open support for the war in Iraq.
Still, there have been too many deaths; there has been too much other suffering. It has lately become clear to me – [...]

There are times that one has to question the very sanity of some of our leading politicians, never mind their judgment and common sense, and today would appear to be one of them; as evidence by this official press release that appeared on the Labour Party website in the last hour or so…

Tory Opposition on [...]

There is a maxim, thought to have originated either with Sir Alec Issigonis, the designer of the Mini, or in the July 1958 issue of Vogue, which holds that ‘a camel is a horse designed by a committee’.
The meaning of that maxim should be clear to anyone who has ever worked in any kind of [...]

And finally, the story of two (allegedly) former BNP members caught with bomb-making equipment two weeks ago starts to make the national press… sort of…
At the time of writing, ITV news has the story in a sideblock on its main news page, while leading with John Reid’s plans for pandering to the xenophobia of the [...]

…then you should watch Keith Olbermann’s comment on Bush and the Military Commission Act…
(hat tip – Chicken Yoghurt)

Anyone remember this story from a couple of weeks ago?

BRAVE HEROES HOUNDED OUT
By JULIE MOULT, JAMIE PYATT and TOM REILLYOctober 07, 2006 MUSLIM yobs who wrecked a house to stop four brave soldiers moving in after returning from Afghanistan sparked outrage last night.
The house in a village near riot-torn Windsor had BRICKS thrown through windows [...]