There’s a bit in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan where the eponymous character starts paraphrasing Moby Dick. “I’ll chase him round the moons of Nibia and round the Antares Maelstrom and round Perdition’s flames before I give him up!” he cries. Tracking down comedian Mark Steel can be a bit like that. Between [...]
This week the the Metro reported that a ‘legal loophole’ had enabled a woman ‘suspected of inflicting “appalling and horrific” injuries on a baby boy’ to walk free after being acquitted of the most serious charges against her. Halfway through the article, the nature of the ‘legal loophole’ to which the writer is referring becomes [...]
A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of the professional politician.
This partucarly enjoyable video posted on youtube yesterday shows a riot policeman being captured by the crowd and his bike burnt. Unfortunately he is treated far better than, say, somebody he might have arrested for apostasy.
This week’s report on Britain’s digital future has once again raised the question of online file sharing. The carter report sets out an aim to reduce illegal file sharing by 70% over two years, yet the music industry has been fairly unanimous in its opinion that proposed measures – primarily written warnings to repeat offenders [...]
Recently, in the aftermath of the BNP’s election victory, Harriet Harman boasted that her new equalities bill would outlaw whites only political organisations. Whatever my hatred for the BNP, I must say that this whole idea sends a bit of a shiver down my spine. Such a law would represent an enormous shift in the [...]
The tube strike could have come at a better time for me. I am self-employed and travel across london for my work – and this week has been busy. Yesterday I had to shuttle between Putney, Dalston and Wembley. Yet funnily enough this experience has not caused me to join the massed ranks of rabidly [...]
This isn’t going to be a particularly deep or rigorous analysis, just some observations and semi-idle speculation: It’s pretty clear the left is fucked, more or less all the way across Europe. The EPP, the mainstream centre-right group, has 264 seats, as many as all the lefty groups (the Party of European Socialists, the Left [...]
It’s not all bad news for the left on June 4th. Coverage of European Parliament elections tends to be dominated by stories of far-right and Europhobic gains. However, if the latest polls are to be believed, it looks like the Green Party may stand to be the real winners in the coming elections. A poll [...]
I honestly don’t care what Gordon Brown has to say about her, whether she’s a fellow Scot or not. Let’s see what someone a little more intelligent has to say on the matter (albeit 65 years prematurely): Fortune will not smile on all – Just on the one who draws the winning ticket or, rather, [...]
