I’ve had my disagreements with Iain Dale over the years but I have to commend him for his handling, here, of a very difficult situation: One call on Iain Dale’s phone-in show on LBC last week stopped me in my tracks. The washing up had to wait. When […]

The Music Industry’s propaganda war against BitTorrent continues apace with the news that that the BPI is heading back to the courts to seek orders for ISP-level blocks against three more torrent search websites: The UK’s major internet service providers have been asked to block three more file-sharing […]

So far this week, we’ve had several examples of how not to write about abortion, so now we might as well top the week off with an object lesson in how not to write about breast cancer courtesy of Melanie McFadyean. For anyone diagnosed with cancer, anything but […]

Is is bravery or masochism that’s prompted Medhi Hasan to jump straight back into the fire by regaling the world with his list of “10 Things I Learned From Debating Abortion On Twitter“? Who knows for sure, but as the article is up at HuffPo I suppose the […]

Okay, so while I was tackling Deborah Orr’s misconceived view of the abortion debate, Mehdi Hassan was stirring up a shit storm of his own at the New Statesman with an article entitled ‘Being pro-life doesn’t make me any less of a lefty‘. Maybe it does, maybe it […]

I could, I suspect, be forgiven for being more than just a little bit irritated with Deborah Orr’s comments on the seemingly never-ending abortion debate, which she kicks off with the following observations… Oh, Lord, the right to choose. There’s no more powerful and predictable way to invite […]

There appears to be a suggestion doing the rounds that the BBC, together with Stoke Mandeville and the Leeds General Hospitals, could find themselves on the wrong end of compensation claims from women who have come forward over the last couple of weeks with allegations that they were […]

There are days when one has to wonder whether there might just be a secret competition under way for the title of the most viscerally unpleasant clergyman in Britain. If there is such a competition – and if there isn’t there should be – then it’s one for […]

It seems that those who regard Channel 4 as a veritable sinkhole of political correctness and unbridled left-wing propaganda have rather less to fear than they might think if this advert, which is being circulated to medical professionals is anything to go by… (h/t Margaret McCartney) “Channel Four […]

The smell of burning straw men is, again, wafting over Andrew Brown’s latest contribution to Comment is Free: This isn’t bad science. It’s evil science How helpful is it to say that science is neutral in itself, and what makes it good or evil are political decisions? Scientists, […]