Ministry of Truth

Apropos of my last post I find this story on the Beeb… Pressure on police over protest Police are coming under political pressure to explain why no arrests were made during demonstrations in which protesters chanted threatening slogans. The protests on Friday in London over cartoons of the […]

Well there’s no doubt what the story of the week has been – the Danish ‘Muhammed’ cartoons and the furore they’ve stirred up all over the place. I’m not going to dwell overmuch on what’s been said, and is still being said, either in the dead tree press […]

Like Spyblog, I noticed Home Office Minister, Andy Burnham, out and about yesterday on the breakfast TV circuit hawking the government’s latest ‘research’ into the supposed costs of identity fraud. The news is, of course, ‘bad’ – it always is when the government are trying to justify unpopular […]

Was going to write something – usual hoots of derision stuff – about the idea of having ‘Pet Police’, but Longrider’s nicely saved me the time and is well worth a visit. Go there and enjoy and then ponder this – based on what you’ve just read, how […]

German ad boss apologises to bloggers The leader of a campaign to cheer up German citizens has been forced to apologise after dismissing weblogs as “the toilet walls of the internet”. Jean-Remy von Matt, the head of the leading German advertising agency Jung von Matt, fired off a […]

Nice of the Torygraph to give a platform to Stephen C Meyer, one of the leading proponents of the supposed ‘theory’ of intelligent design, as his article nicely illustrates everything that is wrong with this unscientific piece of crap and its supporters. That life evolves is a matter […]

ID cards would be of “limited value” against terror and would not have prevented the London attacks in July, says the reviewer of anti-terror laws. Liberal Democrat peer Lord Carlile said he had changed his mind on identity cards, which he had previously backed. “I can’t think of […]

I’ve now managed to track down a copy of the Birmingham University Evangelical Christian Union’s constitution and, quite frankly, I really can’t see what the Birmingham University guild of Student’s problem is. It is a perfectly legal consitution, to start with, and contains nothing that would be impermissible […]

Another piece on the Birmingham University Guild of Students’s war on freedom of association this morning, this time in the Birmingham Post. Can’t say that I’m overfond of the Christian Union’s histrionic comment about Satanists taking over or the obligatory references to ‘it’s political correctness gone mad’ (twice) […]

The furore over Birmingham University Guild of Students (BUGS) decision to effectively shut down the University’s Evangelical Christian Union rumbles on, with the Guild attracting all the wrong headlines. In fact, tonight’s local press is carrying another story (not online as yet so no link) claiming that the […]