With the sad news that the great Syd Barrett died peacefully a couple of days ago, everyone seems to be going overboard with the Shine On You Crazy Diamond references, which is why I thought I’d remind folks that Roger Waters wrote more than just the one song […]

Even with everything else that’s gone during the course of the World Cup, one still has to ask one final question… …Is Martin Jacques a miserable bastard, or what? While everyone else has been watching the football, it seems Martin has been agonising over the ethnic profile of […]

No great analysis, this time, just a few more snippets of information from various sources in relation to the whole Prescott/Anschutz saga… First, from the Lords Hansard (26 Nov 2002), we have: Lord Avebury: My Lords, was not an undertaking given by English Partnerships to provide 3,500 low-cost […]

Wahey, Kitty Ussher‘s back with another puff piece in the Graun (from last Friday – and curiously enough, not on Comment Is Free where us plebs can get at her via the comments boxes) And what’s Kitty got to say for herself this time? Well, looks rather like […]

During last week’s brief spat with the MSM over Guido’s naming of another alleged mistress of John Prescott I made the general observation that is the press in this country really had any balls they’d be mounting a campaign against Britian’s appallingly unfair and draconian libel law and […]

Nice to see Matthew Norman, in yesterdays Indy, adding yet another layer of murk to to the already overloaded tale of the Deputy Prime Minister, the Casino and the dome… AS ALWAYS when the delectable scent of mild governmental scandal is on the breeze, the question is cherchez […]