Tits ‘Out’ at the Tabloids

I know this may sound a bit Ian Hislop, but if there are two things that I don’t watch on television its reality shows and soap operas. That’s not snobbery or being out of touch, so far as I’m concerned, its much more a matter of the value […]

UKIP’s Homophobic Candidate in Croydon

Oh dear, it was all going well for UKIP, what with the furore over the Rotherham fostering issue, but then their election candidate in Croydon North just has to go an open his big mouth and put both feet in to the kneecaps: UKIP’S candidate for the Croydon […]

No More Last Chances on Press Regulation

Is it now time to end the charade of self-regulation and impose independent regulation on the UK press? Yes, of course it is. Such a move is long overdue. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all in favour of press freedom. There can be no question of imposing a […]

Never forget, Nadine Lies.

I’ll keep this one short and sweet. Nadine Dorries. Self-authored, self-serving pile of bullshit at Comment is Free. Same old selective memory. In my seven and a half years as an MP I think it is important to state that I have never taken a single day away […]

The Dead Tree Press doth protest too much, methinks.

So, the report of the Leveson Inquiry will be published next Thursday and, already, the dead tree press has worked itself up into a frenzy of shrill hysteria with everything from dire warnings that the Four Horsemen of Apocalypse will surely be let loose on Fleet Street should […]

Women Bishops – not as simple as some might think

There are days when I despair of members of our elected legislature and today is one of them. The reason for this sinking feeling lies in a seemingly innocuous passage of a commentary by Giles Fraser on the Church of England’s failure to secure enough votes in the […]

Is it because I’s a Quack?

There are many things in this world that I really, seriously dislike. I don’t like racists. I don’t like bullies – and naturally it follows that I really don’t like racist bullies. But more so even that racists and bullies I really, really dislike people who try to […]

Is Irish Law to blame for the death of Savita?

Yesterday’s short post on the tragic and wholly preventable death of Savita Halappanavar provoked a comment that neatly sums up the direction that the anti-abortion lobby’s is going in it’s efforts to find a suitable bullshit excuse to defend the indefensible. The Irish law makes provision for cases […]

The real meaning of ‘Pro-Life’

If you download this Powerpoint presentation, which was produced by Dr Peter Saunders of the Christian Medical Fellowship in conjunction with what was then (2007) the ‘Alive and Kicking’ anti-abortion campaign, you find a slide – number 47 – with the following title: What about abortion to save […]

Dear America, Remember to Vote Human on November 6th

Today’s the big day when 140 million Americans, or thereabout, get to choose their next President while the rest of world looks on with bated breath and thinks ‘ FFS, please make it Obama’. The result, so the press and pundits are telling us, will be close. So […]