Ministry of Truth

The Brothers Serapion, Castro and Guevara (no, I’m not kidding) – AKA Assed Baig and Darrel Williams – have posted an update to their situation with Matthew Boulton College, noting that they have now been expelled for publishing an underground newsletter that criticised the college’s policy of banning […]

Yep, the press briefings in advance of tomorrow’s launch of Blair’s ‘Respect Agenda’ have started and already turned up this gem from the Grauniad. Regular “face the people” sessions, which will be open to the media, will see police officers, council staff and other officials forced to detail […]

No shortage of eulogies in the blogosphere following his untimely death and not much really to add aside from the obvious – admiration for his own brand of ascerbic wit – and to note that as sports minister he was something of a rarity; one who you could […]

NUS urges Matthew Boulton College to reinstate students Two students from Matthew Boulton College in Birmingham were this week suspended for criticising their college in a newsletter. Assed Baig and Darrell Williams were asked to leave the college after distributing a student-run newsletter ‘The Guerilla’ which criticised the […]

Former sports minister Tony Banks has suffered a stroke and is gravely ill in hospital, a family friend said… …Doctors at the Fort Myers hospital in Florida warned “the outlook is bleak”.

Tom Watson on top form… Menzies Campbell is the new leader. We have the Blairites. The Tories have the Cameroons. Presumably the Lib Dems now have the Mingers. Yep.

It’s astronomical, not astrological you goobers. Pluto moon ‘has no atmosphere’ A rare astrological event has proved Pluto’s moon – Charon – has no atmosphere. This could dismiss claims Charon is a planet twinned with Pluto and provide further insight into their formation. Two groups of scientists watched […]

I see that one of the Lib-Dems leading cowardly lions, Vince Cable, has been doing the Breakfast TV rounds this morning and as this is all not quite a coup d’etat he’s been dilligently not quite sticking the knife in Kennedy’s back, at least not personally. Let’s be […]

Noticed this gem from The Times: Clarification A report (“We will kill our hostages, Sunni group warns Iran

Apropos of my earlier comments on the Lib Dems, I think its becoming perfectly apparent that there’s no one in Lib Dem ranks with the balls to pick up the assassin’s blade and mount an open and honest challege to Kennedy’s leadership of the party, hence we now […]