It's his job. If David Cameron wasn't playing party politics with the Baby P story, then he was culpably incompetent in choosing to raise the issue.
Before PMQ's, he will have sat down with his advisors and asked them "How exactly can I make pol...
Register - BNP membership list leaks online: The British National Party has lost its membership list - the whole thing has been published online. The list includes names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of all members up to September 20...
If your wondering what to get your friend or partner (or maybe both, hey it can happen) for Xmas and he/she has got a Wii then I may have found one little item to add to the list. It would do for me (hint, hint).
So what is it I hear all you non-Wii...
PIRACY is booming. It’s the world’s growth industry.
Over the newswires, Anorak learns that a Hong Kong cargo ship has been attacked by pirates in the Gulf of Aden near the Yemen coast.
The good ship Delight is loaded with 36,000 tonnes of whe...
For many men, a 60th birthday is a time for reflection; a winding down of activities, handing over to the kids (passing on the family firm, perhaps), looking forward to retirement. Not so for the Prince of Wales, whose birthday it is today. All his ...
Expect an upsurge in attendances at car boot sales across the UK after Antiques Roadshow, the long-running BBC TV programme, values an item brought in by a member of the public at £1m for the very first time.The nature of the item that has been foun...
I don’t want to get into a debate as to the rights and wrongs of whether people should agree to donate their organs, although I am willing to state, for the record, that I support the organ donor programme. What concerns me is when government,...
I hope you're familiar with Proposition 8 in California and the news that it passed, which is very bad news for the LGBT Community. Three other states passed legislation that denies our community equal rights. A grass roots effort was started last F...
A brief two minute preview of the Christmas Special The Next Doctor was shown on the Children In Need telethon tonight in the UK. Cue two Doctors, two sonic screwdrivers and allons-y!
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As if further proof were needed of the ineptitude, hypocrisy and perverse morality of the United Nations, their conference on religious tolerance was presided over by none other than Saudi Arabia.This is the Islamic kingdom that tortures ‘apostates’...
The other day, while discussing the death of Baby P (can't we all, like Heresy Corner, call him Peter now?) I wrote:Ed Balls has now announced yet another enquiry, but such enquiries have had remarkably similar findings going right back to the death...
Our voracious appetite for energy is potentially putting the planet on the path for a 6°C rise in temperatures – which is far more than what climate specialists say the environment can cope with.
In its 2008 World Energy Outlook, the International E...
Today the UK Bus Awards will honour the commitment to quality and innovation in the bus industry. You'll be pleased to hear there's a special category for London promoted by TfL which "focus especially on the challenging task of running reliable and...
For its many devotees, the Second Life virtual world is a place where the everyday constraints of normal life drop away and vivid fantasies can be played out. But fact and fiction have collided in heartbreaking fashion for a British couple who are d...
MPs who blog are being censored by the Commons authorities - if they use the £10,000 Communications Allowance to pay for it.
A Labour MP says he has been stripped of a Parliamentary allowance for making fun of other MPs on his blog.
Paul Flynn was...
The finalists for the Creative City awards have been announced (also by Kenny from Big cat PR).
I thought it worthwhile repeating the list with links through to the companies (and to their blogs if I could find one - please add a comment if I’...
Two and a half months ago, I did a blog posting on the contrast between American and British politics. It attracted more comments that I usually obtain on this blog, so you might like to revisit it.
Now that the presidential election is over, this ...
The idea that the BBC is fundamentally biased, unfit for purpose and often factually inaccurate has become an increasingly popular set of memes of late.Combine those thoughts however with such a political powderkeg as ID cards and the facility that ...
The list of jobs open to immigrants from outside the European Union has been published by the UK government. Ministers say it will cut by 200,000 the jobs available to non-EU workers.
The shortage occupation list replaces the current work permit s...
It would be, I acknowledge, unduly churlish to pen a virtual heckle at news that the impasse over Stormont executive meetings may be close to resolution. If, at long last, Sinn Féin has decided to return to work and meet its counterparts at the exe...
Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper was carrying out an unprecedented attempt to clean up a gummed-up joint on the International Space Station's solar panel on Tuesday when the grease gun inside her tool bag exploded, getting nasty grey goo all over her ca...
Have just come across this brilliant use of YouTube by Liam Byrne. Credit where credit is due - what a good idea. Highlight rubbish tipping on a YouTube video, upload it to the local MP's blog-like website. He can be bring quick results when the...
Iain Dale's Diary: Brown So Important He Doesn't Rate a Mention
The New York Times carries a lengthy report of the meetings held between world leaders this weekend. Read it HERE. Rather illuminating that the only major world leader not to rate even...
HEY, tax doesn’t have to be taxing.
Just ask Gordon Brown. It’s easy. You just say, “Make it so” and you can raise more taxes than a priapic Caesar.
Gordon Brown is talking about deflation. Every week Gordon introduces a new word into the British le...
As Diego Maradona prepares to return to the forefront of international football it is quite fitting that he will make his managerial debut of the Argentine national squad in the cauldron of all English hatred, Hampden Park. Anyone that can somehow ...
Following England’s defeat in the second one day international against India, Kevin Pietersen praised match-winner Yuvraj Singh who dominated England with bat and ball in Indore. The 26-year-old scored his second century in as many games before proc...
AMY Winehouse watches the X Factor, the contest in which hopefuls see if they can pass a series of challenges and become popstars.
Challenges include:
Making a crack pipe from an empty can of Vitamilk
Photographer punching
Playing the coke s...
Four square metres of rainforest are destroyed for every gram of cocaine snorted in the UK, a conference of senior police officers as told yesterday.Francisco Santos Calderón, the vice-president of Colombia, appealed to British users of the c...
It was a dark and stormy night.Suddenly, from the wet darkness, a tree thrust out a branch and smashed the wing-mirror of my car.The next day, a garage mechanic took a deep breath. You can't, it seems, just replace the glass. It's a motorised unit...
Homeowners are kidding themselves if they believe the banks are about to provide a bonanza of cheap mortgage deals on the back of lower base rates. Banks are not bust one minute and fountains of cheap money the next. It couldn't, and shouldn't, work like that.Some newspapers may hope to trigger campaigns for mortgage rates. Commentators like the former Goldman Sachs partner and Blair adviser Gavyn Davies can argue it should happen. And the cuts in lenders' standard variable interest rates lower would give the appearance of a victory. But there are several reasons why it isn't quite the slam dunk it seems.No one buys an SVR mortgage. For the last decade, we have all bought mortgage "deals" – fixes, discounts and trackers. They have all been priced lower than SVRs. That is now history....
FACE TO FACE WITH A NEGATIVE INTEREST RATE.In 1960 I was 24 and a fairly new full-time student at Ruskin College when I was set an essay by my economic theory tutor on the likely impact of a negative interest rate. Unfortunately I could find no reference to anything called a "negative interest rate" in the reading list which he had supplied, nor could any of my fellow novice students enlighten me on the meaning of the term.So when it came to the tutorial, I read out what I had thought through for myself. My tutor kept correcting me until it dawned on him that I had persistently got hold of the wrong end of the stick. He then heard me out in silence.I had ignored the notion that changes can occur in the value of money due to inflation or deflation. Instead I dreamt up a situation in which...
