Once again it seems we’re all required to go through yet another phase of soul-searching and navel-gazing about matters of race, ethnicity and ‘Britishness’ for reasons which, as ever, are not entirely clear. Trevor Phillips, as you might expect, is leading the charge as usual, arguing this time […]

This is so good that I just had to pull it out of the comments into a post of its own. A couple of posts back I cracked a modest little gag based on the idea of a children’s book called ‘The [Schrodinger’s] Cat in the Hat’s Big […]

…and straight on to the accountancy class. If yet more evidence were ever needed that the 650 or so inhabitants of ‘Westminster Village’ have lost touch with the real world, an article in today’s Observer notes the view of the Associate Parliamentary Skills Group and National Skills Forum […]

Curious Hamster has already done a first rate job of picking apart Sir Ian Blair’s failed efforts, in a letter to Sir John Gieve[pdf], to scotch any prospect of an independent investigation by the IPCC into the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, however in reading the letter […]

“Maybe we should have discussed it but I think some things we keep secret about because if people know exactly what we are doing they can take action to stop it…” So said former Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir John Stevens, about the introduction of the ‘shoot-to-kill’ policy in […]

Well, courtesy of Harry’s Place the mystery behind the closure of the excellent Shot By Both Sides has been solved. What appears to have happened is John posted this comment: Send the Board [of Deputies] to the gas chambers, that’s what I say (no, not for their ethnicity; […]

Thw utterly dumb suggestion that we drop Holocaust Memorial Day out of deference to Muslim sensibilities – apparently its ‘offensive to Muslims’, give the impression that “western lives have more value than non-western lives

“This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organising genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.

I wonder can anyone who supports the supposed theory of intelligent design please explain to me that if there is some sort of intelligence shaping the development of the universe then why do men have nipples? I mean it’s not as is the serve any particular purpose, is […]

What judgment shall I dread, doing no wrong? You have among you many a purchas’d slave, Which, fike your asses and your dogs and mules, You use in abject and in slavish parts, Because you bought them; shall I say to you ‘Let them be free, marry them […]