Occasionally, you hear of a law that you do not just disagree with, but which can only be described as evil. The state of Oklahoma has just passed such a law. Not satisfied with the restrictions of Roe v Wade; not happy with a twenty-four hour waiting period; not content with having only three licensed [...]

Even though not too long ago I could just see, if I squinted and looked at the polls in the right way, a possibility for Labour to win a majority. Even I have now stopped clutching at straws and mixing my metaphors, and it seems at least possible that Labour will be in a coalition [...]

I’m not going to pretend for a moment that Gordon was anything other than wrong in saying what he said, but I want to make two points. Firstly, the media actually are blowing this out of all proportion. Secondly, there is not a single person in this country who has ever done any campaigning who [...]

An excellent documentary from PBS about anti-vax. More information on Jenny McCarthy and vaccines in general at JennyMcCarthyBodyCount.com.

I’m doing a YouGov survey and a fascinating question comes up: Which, if any, of the following websites have you visited in the last month? It’s fascinating not so much for the question as for the websites it lists: Cosmopolitan.com, Graziadaily.co.uk, Vogue.com, Closeronline.co.uk, Instyle.co.uk, Redmagazine.co.uk, Heatworld.com, Us.glamour.com, Look.co.uk, Nowmagazine.co.uk, Moremagazine.co.uk, Handbag.com, Marieclaire.co.uk, Fabsugar.com, Elleuk.com, Glamour.com, [...]

David Cameron has ‘appealed to people with “idealism and progressive ideals hardwired into their DNA” to vote Conservative’ (Guardian). What about Chris Grayling? What about the marriage tax break? What about gearing up the press to attack Nick Clegg? What about cutting school funding so the middle classes can set up free schools? What about [...]

Happy St George’s Day!

Recall elections are a bad idea. They would lead to homogenised, bland, UHT-milk MPs who are unwilling or unable to take on controversial or unpopular issues. So far as I could tell, the three party leaders have come out in favour of recall elections to remove ‘corrupt’ MPs. The mechanism, as I understand it, would [...]

It’s lunchtime and I couldn’t resist myself… TwitPic link TwitPic link TwitPic link TwitPic link TwitPic link TwitPic link TwitPic link I dislike political billboards. You cannot distil a programme for governing a country of sixty-one millions for five years into a slogan and to attempt to do so cheapens the whole process. I am [...]

I was able to interview Clive Hamilton, author of Affluenza, on his new book, Requiem for a Species at the Pod Delusion. Although it is a book about climate change, it is more about why we have failed to heed the many warnings about where we’re headed and why we deny, in many cases, hard [...]