Ministry of Truth

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 […]

…it has to be done.

As noted here, the New Statesman has another clutch of leaked Foreign Office documents and as per the last set of leaked documents, these have accidentally found their way through some OCR software in order to make them usable by bloggers, with the full text being published below […]

You’d have thought Harry’s Place would have been straight off the mark with this story: Victory for Hamas Figures from Palestinian officials tonight confirmed Hamas’s shock win in the Palestinian parliamentary election over the once-dominant Fatah party. Polls had predicted a coalition between the two parties as the […]

Over at Bloggerheads, Tim appears to be right on the money in his assessment of the outing of Simon Hughes. The 54-year-old bachelor MP appealed for understanding and sympathy – and vowed to stay in the race for the Lib-Dem crown. As Mr Hughes opened his heart during […]

This story from the Telegraph, if true, marks a new low-point in the descent of the current government into moral backruptcy. Britain is seeking to convince the son of Libya’s leader, Col Muammar Gaddafi, to act as an “independent” watchdog to ensure that his father’s regime does not […]

The Indy are reporting that another batch of government e-mails have been leaked to the New Statesman, this time regarding which is alleged to be an attempt by Tony Blair to ‘bounce’ Charles Clarke into banning two Islamic ‘political parties’, one of which being Hizb-ut-Tahrir. Charles Clarke, the […]

During last week’s heavily moderated (i.e. no hard questions) webchat with Home Office ball-breaker-in-chief, Louise Casey, on the Respect Agenda, several bloggers, including Nosemonkey, noticed what looked to be a fair blatant bit of astroturfing going on involving a ‘Jimmy Devlin’, who posted this… Jimmy Devlin: Louise, empowering […]

Another Day. Another Home Office Bill. Another example of badly drafted legislation: The New Police and Justice Bill includes this gem of an amendment to Computer Misuse Act, which is intended to criminalise the development, distribution or possession of ‘hacker tools’: 3A Making, supplying or obtaining articles for […]

A new audit of American financial practices in Iraq has uncovered irregularities including millions of reconstruction dollars stuffed casually into footlockers and filing cabinets, an American soldier in the Philippines who gambled away cash belonging to Iraq, and three Iraqis who plunged to their deaths in a rebuilt […]