Golly!

I’m probably the last blogger in the country to spot this, but it’s just too surreal to ignore.
Mr Reynolds of “Pettifer’s” store in Bromyard, was hauled out of his house by the boys in blue in order to remove some gollies (you know, black dolly things) from his shop window, because some sad loser with [...]

The Limits to Cynicism

The biggest hole in the arguments of those opposition politicians (including those in the Labour Party) and the press, as regards the Tessa Jowell saga, is summed up in the Daily Mail headline one day last week: What do they talk about at the breakfast table? The assumption that Mr and Mrs Tessa Jowell were [...]

Irving, Livingstone and Free Speech in General

Melanie Phillips in the Jewish Chronicle manages to square a few circles over the recent free speech issues. The Danish cartoon crisis, the jailing of David Irving, the Religious Hatred bill which was recently defeated in the UK and the recent suspension of Ken Livingstone for insulting a Jewish journalist have all been raised as [...]