It’s been less than a week since Tim launch ‘Operation Cloaca‘ and already it seems we have an urgent need to come up with a suitable collective noun for multiple cloacas as no less than four newspapers – The Daily Mail, Express, Star, and the increasingly comic-like Daily Telegraph – have all run the same bullshit story.
Council forces schools to rearrange
The row over the sacking of Professor David Nutt is, it seems, rumbling on nicely with this exchange between Evan Harris and Alan Johnson in regards to the accuracy, or otherwise, of comments made by Johnson in his statement to the House of Commons:
The exchange contains this classic example of politician, Johnson, answering the question he’d have preferred to have been… - Continue Reading...
So, in the last couple of days I think we’ve safely established that Daniel Hannan is a complete and utter twat. That said, the full extent of Hannan’s outright twattery only becomes fully apparent when you examine the background to his assertion that the NHS should be replaced with a Singapore-style system of personal health accounts because…
The Singapore system produces better outcomes than
I’m generally not one for talking up the qualities of Tory Shadow Ministers, as you might easily guess, but I have to admit that for a while I’ve considered the Shadow Education Minister, Michael Gove, to be one of the more quietly impressive figures in what is otherwise a pretty nondescript bunch of obvious mediocrities – or rather I was inclined to view him… - Continue Reading...
First things, first, apologies for the lack of posting of late, which is due to a number of ongoing real life issues that I can’t discuss for the time being, but which I may be able to clear up in due course.
Now, having got that out of the way, let’s get down to business… and the business for today is yet another piece… - Continue Reading...
In defiance of Denis Healey’s First Law of Holes, Nemesysco have stuck out a lengthy press release in an effort to defend their technology, one which, rather hilariously puts forward this specific criticism of the work of Professors Eriksson and Lacerda:
The article’s claims that our technology does not work and cannot work are based on assumptions made by Eriksson and Lacerda, selectively (as
What better way could there be to start a new year at the Ministry than with a typically tawdry tale of statistics abuse featuring Nadine Dorries as supporting rent-a-gob and all brought to you, as ever, by the Daily Mail:
Teenage pregnancies triple in leafy suburbs in damning blow to Labour sex education campaign
Affluent middle-class areas are experiencing the sharpest rises
At the risk of seeing access to the Ministry blocked by several British ISP’s and maybe even getting arrested let me introduce you to ‘Cupidon’ (aka ‘The Wet Cupid’) an 1875 painting in the classical/photorealistic style by the French Academic Painter William-Adophe Bouguereau:
I must admit that Bouguereau’s work is not really my ‘thing’ as art goes – my personal tastes… - Continue Reading...
When stories start appearing about the government’s plans for a nationwide rollout of the use of so-called ‘lie detectors’ to trap ‘benefit cheats’ there seems to little else for a diligent blogger to do but run the whole idea through their own personal bullshit detector to see what shakes loose.
So, lets start at the beginning by knocking a large hole in… - Continue Reading...
I don’t know about you, but I thought that yesterday’s announcement of the government’s new ‘crack down’ on the demand side of prostitution lack a little something.
Where, one has to ask, was the sound-bite?
Come on, New Labour! What the hell’s going on here?
Back in the day, when the Maximum Tone was running the show, no policy announcement was complete without it’s… - Continue Reading...
