“Happy” Jack Straw has finally given us an overview of his proposals for ‘constitutional renewal’ – I do wish he’d lay off the ‘renewal’ thing as it only makes me think of 1976 film version of Logan’s Run – which includes one obvious crowd-pleaser:
Our view is that Parliament itself is best placed to decide what [...]

Both Justin and Alix do a fine job of heaping some well-deserved derision on different aspects of Margaret Hodge’s inane speech on Britishness, Culture and the Arts, which rather leaves me to add to growing pile by picking out this absolute gem of a comment:
My family came to this country via Egypt when I was [...]

In case you’re not already convinced:
Iraqi interpreters working for the British Army have been advised to leave Basra or be killed.
The warning was issued by a leading member of the city’s security forces after militiamen attacked and destroyed the home of one interpreter and narrowly failed to kidnap another. There were unconfirmed reports yesterday that [...]

Just got usual weekly missive from the Groan’s ‘backbencher’ and its looks like the ‘crits’ for Fox News Lite aren’t going to be good ones…
What is it that makes 18 Doughty Street (
http://www.18doughtystreet.com/ )’s new attack ads so different – so
appalling? You might have thought PPBs couldn’t get any worse, but
Tim Montgomerie, Iain Dale and [...]

Oh well, today sees the release of the Ajegbo report on Diversity and Citizenship in the national curriculum, which means yet more harping on about ‘Britishness’ as is obvious from the Beeb’s opening gambit…
Schools in England should teach “core British values” alongside cultural diversity, a report says.
A more predictable outcome to a report on diversity [...]

It’s difficult to know quite which is the least enticing prospect; that of the government setting up its own ‘Ministry of Propaganda’ to promote ‘British values’ to the Muslim community as part of ‘The War Against Terror’ (T.W.A.T) – I know, altogether now, ‘whaddya mean ’setting up’? – or that of putting Dr Demento in [...]

I spotted this yesterday, while out shopping, in one of the Sunday tabloids that had been left open on the news stand is Asda (didn’t notice which one, sorry).
St Alban is holier than St George
THE Church of England will debate making St Alban an alternative patron saint because critics claim St George is too militaristic, [...]

Forget all this crap about the search for a ‘British identity’ – you’d be better served setting out on a Snark hunt – if you want to see the real meaning of what it is to be British then everything you need to know is this story…
Scotland set for first Asian MSP
The Scottish National [...]