Apropos of Alfreton-based radio presenter and North East Derbyshire Conservative Future branch chairman, Chris Birks, who featured in my last post on the hitherto concealed identity of the people behind the Labourist spoiler site, I’m afraid that young Chris is about to get a short, sharp and possibly very painful lesson in the importance of [...]

First things, first – props go out to Dizzy & Tim (read the comments) for a tidy piece of detective work in tracing the recently launched Labour List clone, Labourist, back to a Matthew Birks, a British ex-pat, currently living in Canada and for flagging up a possible connection to Chris Birks, who, it appears, [...]

If you read Keith Parkins’ self written bio, you’d think he was fairly innocuous chap…
Keith Parkins is the author or co-author of a number of articles and papers in the areas of social justice, housing, the environment and globalisation. He has spoken on numerous platforms on the same subject, has helped coordinate or acted as [...]

It is a rare privilege to be able to do something like this, but today the Ministry of Truth has the distinct pleasure of bringing you one of the leading candidates for this year’s most unintentionally hilarious document – the new Complementary & Natural Health Council’s Code of Conduct, Performance and Ethics (pdf, 129kb).
Even before [...]

Now here’s a rather interesting little coincidence…
Over at Obsolete, my esteemed blogging colleague Septicisle has produced yet another delicious and characteristically thorough debunking of another extremely dodgy piece of propaganda and disinformation brought to you by the Super, Soaraway, Bullshitting Sun….
Imagine for a moment you’re some sort of security asset. You have a major story: [...]

To pick up the full background to this post, you’ll need to read this article of mine at Lib Con, and this response from Letters From A Tory, first…
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Finished? Good, then we’ll move on.
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There’s an common exercise that was widely used by English teachers back when I was at school, one which may well still [...]

From the blanket coverage he’s getting in today’s Guardian you might think that Professor Simon Baron-Cohen of the Cambridge University Autism Research Centre had made some kind of major scientific breakthrough:
New research published today will bring prenatal testing for autism significantly closer, prompting experts to call for a national debate about the consequences of screening [...]

Apropos of my extended article on the irrationality of the UK’s approach to formulating public policy on the use and abuse of narcotic drugs, I find that Bearwatch has read something into the article that simply isn’t there:
Unity at the Ministry of Truth offers 15,000 words to justify the legalisation of drugs
There’s nothing in the [...]

So, has accosting mentally unbalanced rednecks on isolated country roads so lost its charm that ET has taken to randomly knocking blades of wind turbines in Lincolnshire?
Nah, fuck off.
Sorry to disappoint any budding ufologists looking in the but the real villain of piece here isn’t a vistior from outer space, merely plain old physics.
To explain [...]

If you’re a regular visitor to the Ministry then you’ll already know what to expect, but if not then take my advice, grab yourself a nice hot cup of coffee (and maybe even a sandwich) and settle down because this is going to be one of those posts where I really go for it…
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