I learned a new word this week – EmoTrance.
EmoTrance is the new name for bullshit.
In the last week, its received no less than two articles worth of coverage in The Times’ educational supplements; one, a vomit inducing piece of brainless advertorial by Adi Bloom, an arts correspondent with a taste for ‘kitsch’ – i.e. fucking [...]

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 [...]

I’m indebted to the wonderful PZ Myers for drawing my attention to what has to be the most hysterical and ill-conceived political smear in living memory:
Minutes ago I spoke with friend Dr. Norman G. Marvin, M.D. and he is so concerned at what he has learned about Barack Obama’s family in Kenya that he is [...]

It’s been a while, but Chris Sugden has succeeded in shaking me out my current torpor with this hilarious attempt to turn Comment Is Free into a pulpit…

There’s plenty of worry around at the moment – the governor of the Bank of England is worried about the imminent recession. People are worried about losing their [...]

It’s indicative of the utter bewilderment amongst Tories in the face of the current banking crisis that their attempts to spin thing to their political advantage turns up such a rich array of delightfully Freudian slips, as is evident from this delightful effort from the keyboard of Iain Dale…
I don’t often quote in its entirely [...]

I’m in a good mood this afternoon… so good, in fact, that I’m going to save Iain Dale a job and embarrass a political journalist
Sam Coates (he of The Times and not the one who writes for Tory Home) has a ‘leaked’ Tory strategy document of which he seems inordinately proud.
All of which makes it [...]

I’ve seen some bullshit in my time but this piss-poor attempt at a defence of homoeopathy by Denis MacEoin just about takes the biscuit:
Last week, novelist Jeanette Winterson published an intelligent and lucid account of why she believes homeopathy works. Three days later, along came Ben Goldacre, who gave us a longer piece showing us [...]

I can’t help but be amused by this ’story’ by Rob Wilson MP, from Tory Home.
Along with a freelance journalist, Sunjay Kakar, I took a stroll back through Ms [Jacqui] Smith’s recent political past and found that she has “form” when it comes to dissembling. In November 2004, Ms Smith made a statement to [...]

Without naming names, a quick scan of some of the chatter in the feminist blogosphere appear to indicate that David Cameron’s speech on rape has actually gone down rather well – or the very least he’s managed to produce the right of soundbites for that market but, if you look a little more closely at [...]

It appears I might have done David Cameron a disservice in suggesting that about half the couples who would be likely to benefit from his plans to ‘recognise’ marriage in the tax system would be those who don’t have dependent children – because looking at the detail of what IDS’s policy group are proposing what [...]