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 [...]

Craig Murray looks set for another bout of legal fisticuffs with our old friends, Schillings:
Schillings are a firm of libel lawyers dedicated to prevent the truth from being known about some deeply unlovely people. They managed temporarily to close down this blog (and several others) to keep information quiet about the criminal record of Alisher [...]

This has to be, by a long, long distance, the stupidest comment I have read in a very, very long time:
Here’s another interesting departure. It seems a bit odd to thank China for this can-do report, endorsed so speedily by Gordon Brown, but that country’s efforts to control sensitive political information on the web have [...]

I must congratulate the Rt Rev Patrick O’Donoghue, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Lancaster, for providing members of the House of Commons’ Children, Schools and Families Select Committee with one of the finest arguments for secular education, I’ve seen in a very, very long time.
The Rt Rev Patrick O’Donoghue, Bishop of Lancaster, told MPs that [...]

Another day, and yet another of example of Usmanov-style censorship by exploiting the absurdities of the UK libel laws under which UK-based ISPs and webhosts can be held liable for third party content.
The following article appeared, initially, on The Quackometer, which aims to debunk quack medicine on the internet:
The Gentle Art of Homeopathic Killing

Thursday, August [...]