Get ’em while they’re hot… Peter Tapsell Louth & Horncastle – the only Tory to vote with Blair. Diane Abbott – Hackney North & Stoke Newington John Austin – Erith & Thamesmead Richard Burden – Birmingham, Northfield Michael Clapham – Barnsley West & Penistone Katy Clark – Ayrshire […]

Wahey, the Safety Elephant’s back in your in-box this evening and nice and late too – 10.04pm this time; presumably to give us bloggers as little time as possible to slaughter his lastest missive. So without further ado, I give you the full and unexpurgated version of the […]

So its be no compromise after all. Blairius Caesar has spoken and orders have gone out to the Whips office to polish their jackboots. All that’s missing now is a stirring Churchillian speech: “We will fight them in the bedsits and in the Islamic Bookshops – We will […]

Blair ‘still determined to quit’ Tony Blair says he is not tempted to fight a fourth term as prime minister, despite a Newsnight poll suggesting a quarter of people want him to stay on.

Hey, Scott Adams has a blog. And it has comments enabled.

I wonder; in all the fuss and furore over the current anti-terrorism bill, in every effort being made to scare and coerce parliament and the British people into supine compliance in the face of police demands for more and more powers, including the power to suspend habeas corpus […]

Looks very much like ‘honest’ John’s memory is starting to go. Fair’s fair, he has a point with his observation that: “It does point out the hypocrisy of what they said at the time: ‘purer than pure’, ‘whiter than white’, ‘tough on sleaze; tough on the causes of […]

This just arrived in my inbox at 5:30pm today. I am emailing you today to find out your views on the action the Government is proposing to take to challenge the new terrorist threats that face all of us. Since the London bombings of 7 July, we all […]

From this blogs search logs; one of antipodean cousins wants to know via Google Australia: “Why may electro-convulsion therapy be viewed with suspicion by public” To which the obvious answer must surely be: “Here, hold these wires and I’ll show you” On a similar amusing vein, this week […]

I think it fair to say that the government’s proposals to outlaw the ‘glorification’ of terrorism are as near dead in the water as makes no difference. The record will show that they won the division by a single vote, 300 to 299, a result which will have […]