Nadine Dorries’ response to her nomination for this year’s New Humanist Bad Faith Award is – well – classic Dorries: The Humanist magazine are running an online ‘bad faith’ poll and I am apparently in the lead. I am not sure why anyone would admit to being a […]

I know, I know. The words ‘Vote Dorries’ are just about the last thing that anyone would expect to read here at the Ministry but just this once she’s a contender for an award that she undoubtedly deserves; New Humanist’s annual Bad Faith award. Admittedly its strong field […]

Nadine Dorries is back on abortion trail yet again, courtesy of as yet unpublished interview with the Guardian in which, if this post on her personal pseudoblog is anything to go by, she’ll once again claim that her views on abortion are based on science rather than religious […]

Short version: Another day, another example of Nadine Dorries talking absolute rubbish. Long version: There’s a new post up at Nadine Dorries’s pseudoblog about an article which appeared in The Times yesterday, which reports on the preliminary results of a new epidemiological study by researchers at the University […]

This morning, Nadine Dorries posted a press release on her pseudoblog which claims that the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) has backed the abortion counselling amendment that she and Frank Field have put forward for inclusion in the government’s contentious Health and Social Care Bill: The […]

Tonight I’m going to try something that’s a little off the wall even by my standards – I’m going to pre-emptively fact check a ‘report’ before its even been released into the public domain and without having any advanced sight of its contents. How, I guess your wondering, […]

There is some considerable – and I might also say deliberately contrived – confusion as to the question of whether Nadine Dorries’ abstinence bill amounts to the promotion of abstinence-only sex education. Dorries and her supporters claim that she isn’t pushing abstinence-only sex education and, of course, use […]

What is it with Christian nutjobs and bananas? You may recall that perhaps the most embarrassing creationist video of all time involved Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron’s musings on the perfect god-given design of the ‘atheist’s nightmare’ – the banana. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfucpGCm5hY[/youtube] And now, Nadine Dorries is running around […]

Somewhere in the deepest recesses of the cellars of the House of Commons, Nadine Dorries sits hunched over her precious and mumbling to herself about the dreadful iniquities visited on her by those those nasssty twittering leftisssts… Back in the real, the eminent moral philosopher Harry G Frankfurt […]

Now here’s a funny thing. When a Member of Parliament makes use of parliamentary privilege to place serious allegations about a company or individual on the public record you’d expect them to have made every effort possible to check the accuracy of their statements before addressing the House. […]