No time to blog this fully but:
Waltham Forest councillor found guilty of smearing rival
LABOUR Cllr Miranda Grell has been found guilty on two counts of making false statements under the Representation of the People Act 1983 – the first case of its kind in Britain.
She was alleged to have claimed during last year’s Waltham Forest [...]

A quick at look at the website of Schillings, the legal firm responsible for the [temporary] removal of Bloggerheads et al turns up a number of case studies that are particularly illuminating as to what they reveal about the manner in which the firm operates.
Take, for example, this illustration of how they dealt with a [...]

I’ll say this for Sunny Hundal, when he sets out to stir up a hornets nest, he really sets out to stir up a hornets nest:
The bloggers and much of the press won’t be happy until the BBC reflects their worldview without accepting that the whole picture may lie somewhere in the middle, despite their [...]

Right, so let’s talk about Ming.

No, not that Ming. This Ming.

That’s unquestionably Ming the Merciless, Emperor of Mongo, as played by Max Von Sydow in the 1980 film version of Flash Gordon.
For anyone my age – and maybe a little younger – who can remember the days before 24/7 cable/satellite TV, one of absolute givens [...]

I’m going to break off from the business of pulling apart Cameron’s vacuous and tendentious mini-manifesto on law and order for a moment…
…to pull apart Cameron’s vacuous and tendentious remarks on the subject of immigration.
Changing the subject, in this case, does not require too much in the way of a mental gear-shift, the common ground [...]

Without wishing to spoil anyone’s anticipation of the upcoming publication of Iain Dale’s latest guide to political blogging, I’m one of forty bloggers who has a self-penned entry in the book’s ‘Who’s Who’ section, in which I make the point that one of things that motivates my writing is a deep-seated sense of irritation with [...]

The Times has published an intriguing allegation regarding the background to the pedal-by shooting of Rhys Jones that, perhaps better than anything else I’ve read in the last few days, explains why its important that we crack down on teenage street gangs in the UK:
Detectives believe that Rhys, 11, was accidentally hit by a [...]

The media driven furore over the decision of an asylum and immigration tribunal to rule out the deportation of Learco Chindamo on his eventual release from a 12 year sentence for the murder of Philip Lawrence, predictably, continues apace with the locus of the story having shifted from Lawrence’s widow to the publication by The [...]

Planet Cameron is, by all accounts, a rather curious place…
Cameron stands by NHS cut claim
David Cameron is standing by claims 29 district hospitals are facing cuts to emergency and maternity services.
The Tory leader admitted one hospital, in north-west England, had been wrongly named by him as being under threat.
But he insisted all the others were [...]

Getting quickly back on to theme of deliberate misreporting – and of the current tabloid hot ticket, ‘feral youth’ – we find the Daily Mail in full spittle-flecked fury mode over the ruling by an Immigration and Asylum Tribunal that Learco Chindamo cannot be deported on his release from custody for the murder of Phillip [...]