Last night’s defeat in Blaenau Gwent seems to have prompted Gareth Davies to revisit some old ground on the issue that caused a schism in the local party before the last election, the imposition on the local CLP of an all female shortlist during the selection of the […]

If, as Jay Leno suggested, politics is showbusiness for ugly people, then parliamentary conventions such as private members’ bill and early day motions must be something akin to Warhol’s oft-cited aphorism about everyone having ‘fifteen minutes of fame’. The majority of EDMs and PMBs often seem to be […]

From yesterday’s Observer… The home secretary’s decision to move scores of paedophiles out of hostels next to schools backfired spectacularly last night amid concerns many were now under less stringent supervision than before John Reid’s unprecedented intervention. A Home Office source told The Observer that many of the […]

Abortion is back in the news, courtesy of Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor – excellent commentary here by Owen Barder, by the way –  so it should come as no particular surprise to note that while researching the Lawyers’ Christian Fellowship’s campaign on the draft Sexual Equality Regulations, I discovered […]

Apropos of my last article on the rantings of Mad Mel on the subject of the government’s proposed Sexual Orientation Regulations (consultation document – pdf), I thought I’d take a bit of a closer look at the campaign being conducted, in the main, by a evangelical group called […]

Much as I generally try to avoid the febrile ravings of Mad Mel Phillips, her latest prurient missive for the Daily Mail is one that I simply cannot pass without comment: The cause of Mad Mel’s latest rantings turns out to be a set of draft regulation being […]

Not content with being roundly exposed as a regular contributor to the cess pit that is the Stormfront Forum, Great Bridge BNP Councillor Simon Smith has very quickly succeeded in demonstrating that other notable facet of the BNP… …plain old-fashioned stupidity. Simon, like other Sandwell Councillors, is given […]

Warning – Not work-safe if your workplace has a policy on accessing offensive material and very long. No, I’m not Steve Freedom. ‘Steve Freedom’ is the online alias used by Simon Smith, the newly elected BNP councillor for Great Bridge in Sandwell, on the white ‘nationalist’ forum ‘Stormfront’, […]

Bob Piper picks up a nice little story from the ‘you couldn’t make it up file’: Most people won’t have heard of the England First party. There’s no real reason that you should have done because they’re crackers, but they did persuade the people of Blackburn and Dawen […]

I am deeply endebted to Leo McKinistry, as author of the Thunderer column in today’s Times, for providing the following example of complete and utter illiberal crap, which I present today for your general edification – with annotatations, naturally MR JUSTICE SULLIVAN is lucky he is not facing […]