English Libel Law: Doris Stokes Wins!
To say that England’s libel laws do a disservice to liberal values is to veer so much on the uncontroversial that one might see this on the “and finally” segment of ITV News. To go further and say that...
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Can’t Start A Fire With A Flint
Caroline “female window dressing” Flint has just resigned! Reproduced below in full is her resignation letter – and if it isn’t the funniest thing you’ve read this year, I’ll eat my own bladder. It’s...
View ArticleBrow(n)beaten!
As baffling as the past week has been (who says turkeys won’t vote for Christmas?), the most baffling moments, as far as I’m concerned, have been the many instances in which Labour MPs have been seen...
View ArticleUp For Hannan?
Poor Marvin K. Mooney just cannot get a break! A fine name traduced by association first with Dubya and now with Gordon Brown. A New York Times columnist and some impish Democrats first poured scorn on...
View ArticleLet’s Go To Work: War For Terror
“You don’t need proof when you have instinct.” “All right Ramblers, let’s get ramblin.” “Only one thing to do in that case: shit in yer pants an’ dive in and swim!” “Let’s go to work.” Joe Cabot, the...
View ArticleIrish Misery & Tory Revolution!
There have been many occasions when I have come very close to beating Reginald “Kipper” Herring’s record for the sitting high-jump – a record previously held by Bertie Wooster. That record has now...
View ArticleAlan Clark: Nazi
A little snippet in this week’s “Critical Eye”, the Guardian Review’s column devoted to informing its readers of what critics on other papers make of the most recent book releases, caught my attention....
View ArticleBarking in Barking: Nick Griffin MP?
My prediction that BNP Fuehrer Nick Griffin will stand in Dewsbury at the next general election has been proven wrong. He’s announced that he’ll stand in Barking. The useless Margaret Hodge, Labour MP...
View ArticleHitched By His Own Petard
“He will lie even when it is inconvenient, the sign of the true artist”. Gore Vidal. Leave aside the curious construction of finding oneself objecting rather than simply objecting, who said the...
View ArticleLebanese Rum
Things have taken a fairly rum turn for the United States and Israel when “pro-Western” Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri can openly declare: “It’s not a secret that Israel has vicious intentions...
View ArticleAfghan Turncoat
“Once a philosopher, twice a pervert.” Voltaire. The excitable imbeciles who make up a disproportionate number of foreign correspondents are reporting that the “surge” in Afghanistan is now under way....
View ArticleElderly Care: Consensus Kicking
In his Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith warned that “people of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in...
View Article(Dis)Benefit Reform
As part of my continuing attempt to prove that in thirteen years of government New Labour has not done one progressive thing on the economic front, I should like to draw your attention to the following...
View ArticleThe Hill of Pressure
Ralph Miliband’s corpse is revolving at high speed. At the Iraq Inquiry today, hapless Foreign Secretary David Miliband defended the invasion on that little known international law of nursery rhymes....
View ArticlePontius Darling
Every time Alistair Darling pops up to let the cat out of the bag, I can’t help but brood whether Pontius Pilate’s deep question “What is truth?” has been answered by a man who doesn’t know the...
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New Labour, New Kite
“All them cornfields and ballet in the evening.” The deluded Gordon Brown Fred Kite in I’m All Right Jack. The post New Labour, New Kite appeared on Socialist Unity.
View ArticleLove’s Labour’s Lost
For those who have been fortunate enough to miss it, Newsnight has seen fit to mock the disabled by employing what appears to be a mentally retarded teenager to masquerade as a journalist and report...
View ArticleBeing There, with Glenn Beck
“I don’t know — I’m sure it’s not just me. But I sense metaphorically that the leaves are changing. The seasons are changing. I don’t know if we’re headed into winter, or I hope into spring. But the...
View ArticleTory Francophiles
“After years of aggression and massacres, they [the British ruling class] had grasped only one fact, that Hitler and Mussolini were hostile to Communism. Therefore, it was argued, they must be friendly...
View ArticleRussell’s Counterfactual
Counterfactual (or imaginary) history has lately become a fashionable intellectual enterprise – and no doubt a profitable one too. In between harrumphing in the learned Daily Mail, rightwing historians...
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