As regular visitors will know, Early Day Motions are the nearest thing that Parliament has to a parish noticeboard, and like the contents of most such noticeboards EDMs are, for the most part, dull and rather mundane but occasionally useful for identifying the House of Commons’ resident idiots, […]

While the Twittersphere’s obsession with the sex lives of professional footballers continues unabated, a rather interesting tale of electoral incompetence in the Principality of Wales has passed almost unnoticed: Liberal Democrat AM Peter Black has called for “contrition” after two colleagues were disqualified from the assembly less than […]

Somewhere in the deepest recesses of the cellars of the House of Commons, Nadine Dorries sits hunched over her precious and mumbling to herself about the dreadful iniquities visited on her by those those nasssty twittering leftisssts… Back in the real, the eminent moral philosopher Harry G Frankfurt […]

Oh dear, it would appear that Grouty the Snout Baron has stirred up a bit of a shit storm: He said some cases of date rape or sex with under-age children might not qualify as rape “in the ordinary conversational sense”. He also refused to agree with the […]

Now here’s a funny thing. When a Member of Parliament makes use of parliamentary privilege to place serious allegations about a company or individual on the public record you’d expect them to have made every effort possible to check the accuracy of their statements before addressing the House. […]

I’m tied up with other stuff this morning, so this is going to be a bit of drive-by by my usual standards… The Sunday Telegraph has a front page report which claims that a Council of Europe committee are planning to recommend a ban on mobile phones and […]

In today’s Indy: Bullets similar to illegal dum-dum ammunition and designed to cause catastrophic injury are to be used as standard by police marksmen in London. Senior officers at the Metropolitan Police have selected the bullet because it is better at incapacitating a target and is less likely […]

Over the last few years I’ve written quite a lot on the subject of teenage pregnancy, abortion and related issues, much of which has been prompted by the dull-witted and willful ignorance of a single MP – Nadine Dorries, of course. If there’s one pertinent observation that crops […]

Looking back over the speech given by Nadine Dorries when introducing her ridiculous 10 minute rule bill, there are several factual innaccuracies to be added to list I started the other day. Take, for example, Dorries’ claims about the opinions of Dame Joan Bakewell… I am sure that […]

If you visited the BBC News website late last week then you have have seen this story prominently featured in its education news section: Many parents ‘oppose school sex education for children’ More than half of parents do not think sex education should be taught to children in […]