Monthly Archives: October 2009

It seems that the right blogosphere has decided to declare war on the FT for  the crime of speaking ill of George Osborne. First Iain Martin, of the entirely disinterested and neutral Wall Street Journal Europe, launched FTwatch, then Paul Staines jumped … Continued

Ah, sweet victory. Yesterday, David Cameron took time out from his busy schedule to prove me entirely correct, visionary and prophetic. The issue in which my Tiresias qualities were demonstrated? All Women Shortlists. When Cameron proposed them in a blaze of … Continued

A few times recently, I’ve had conversations with respectable economics and political thinkers and writers that have left me a little peturbed. They’ve usually gone something like this: Me: “Hello, V. intelligent person. What do you think of Tory economic proposal … Continued

On reading George Monbiot’s impassioned, err, endorsement of Tony Blair as a prospective EU president (Why? To make it easier to prosecute one of the “two greatest living mass murderers on earth”.*  ) my primary reaction was “Oooh, I can’t wait to … Continued

Alex Massie’s post in the Spectator is the best thing I’ve read about immigration in ages.  I don’t agree with everything he says (I have a  problem with guest wroker programmes, for example) but the Alex’s fundamental optimisnsays stands in great … Continued

Today’s theme is ”Isn’t multicultural secular* democracy a good thing, eh?” We start off with this guest video and post from British Muslims for Secular Democracy, showing that mockery is the right way to treat bigots of every persuasion.  They say: “British Muslims for … Continued

One of my favourite random facts about positive discrimination is that there are two seat in India’s House of Commons, the Lok Sabha, reserved for Anglo-Indians. That’s as many as the entire state of Goa gets. Ingrid McLeod and Charles … Continued

I’m more than a little mystified by the attention given to a pudgy fascist’s invitation to be on a BBC programme. In an amazing turn of events, the double-chinned duce apparently turned out to be a bit of a nob. Who’d have … Continued

I’m no great fan of Alice Thompson’s prose style (Though my own is nothing to write home about. Oh, for some much needed brevity, eh?), but underneath the torrents of praise for the wise, farsighted and visionary Cameroons, her column … Continued

I get it. I really do. Rod Liddle sees his role as a provocateur, an epater of the culturally  bourgeois. When earnest folk music liking lefties like myself get all grumpy and irritable, the Liddle’s of the world consider their work well done. “Lefties, … Continued