All this background chatter means it’s almost time to get the bunting scrubbed up for Blair’s departure. As part of those preparations, over the next couple of weeks Chris and I are conducting a little experiment. We need your help: that’s all the readers and contributors here, including and especially those of you who don’t usually comment. Read More
‘Ave it ‘Ackney!
How Nike nicked my council
Cameron’s can of worms
Conservatives of the world unite  you have nothing to lose but etc. etc.
Blair shamed by Edward I
From the Jews to the dodo, via Boudicca
Veteran satirist Tom Lehrer said that the world of comedy changed in 1973 when the greatest living war criminal, Henry Kissinger, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. ‘At that moment, satire died. There was nothing more to say after that’.
If, during Bono’s cosying up to the G8 last summer, I’d done a sketch about him launching a consume-to-give campaign, urging people to buy products made by sweatshop barons Nike and Gap, it would’ve seemed like a cheap shot.
Sick Hospitals Haemorrhage Cash
Three times over budget, seven years behind schedule… and finally abandoned
Last Wednesday the Attorney-General, Lord Goldsmith, gave a speech on “UK Terrorism Legislation in an International Context”. At the outset he said ‘You have asked me particularly to talk about the UK legislative response to the threat of terrorism and that is what I shall focus on.’
That hasn’t, however, been the headline-grabbing part of the speech. And I don’t believe for a moment that Goldsmith didn’t know perfectly well that the headline would actually be this bit buried in the middle: Read More
Blood & Treasure: heavenly feet
Red Ken and his Maoist footbinding fetish
The nation’s opinion-formers have their say on the world cup – Footballing genius of a different kind
“Learning lessons from idiots: investigating the rise of the BNP” – Reasons to ponder, but not to panic