Over the Kitchen, DK not only refrains from his usual line in invective but relates a rather disturbing story about the use of Chip and Pin cards which resulted in this statement being made by a senior member of staff in HBOS’s retail banking division…
Up to 40 minutes after any Chip & PIN card transaction, [...]

Aside from being a day for dissecting the latest set of gushings from dear old Polly Pot, Friday is also Home Office press release day (particularly when there are unpromising statistics that need burying).
And so, on the Labour Party website, we find that Dr Demento doing his level best to polish up his shiny, patent [...]

On the back of the release of the report ‘Doing God: A future for faith in the public square‘ by the Theos ‘think-tank’, AC Grayling not only describes the report as ‘confused’ – discursive, meandering, sophistic, would all have been equally valid adjectives – but also gives the authors a well-deserved lesson in semantics.
Needless to [...]

Not sure how this will go down with the PLP, but while mooching through some of the search terms that have brought people here when they were obviously looking for something else entire, I’ve just discovered that on Yahoo UK search, I’m now the top result for ‘Labour Ministry UK’, beating the official Labour Party [...]

It’s Friday and Polly Pot is in full flow – and remember the Graun have coughed up around £1,400 for what follows.
Labour needs a woman at the top to win female votes back from Cameron
It is amazing that Labour has lost the backing of those who have gained most. But there is a way [...]