Mr. Smith’s Not Going To Washington.

“> In comments to the Bush/Cheney shrubbery video, commenter Swan brought to my attention this article from Carpetbagger about media disinterest in the US Attorney scandal: […] One should be cautious about throwing around phrases like “journalistic malpractice” casually, but for the nation’s leading news-weekly to entirely ignore the nation’s biggest political controversy, just as […]

Spin and Redemption – A Lenten Story

It appears that that paragon of all virtues, Cherie Blair, (or Cherie Booth QC when it suits her) is to bring Christian enlightenment to us godless proles by giving a Lenten talk on BBC Radio 4. Cherie Booth Wednesday 14 March repeated Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 March Cherie Booth QC finds the themes of […]

Bloody God-Botherers Again

Of all the things that you think might’ve finally split the British Cabinet – Iraq, Bush poodlism, Trident, cronyism, cash for honours, general corruption, gross incompetence – in the end it may come down to religion, if Inspector Knacker doesn’t swoop on No. 10 first, that is. Why? Because paedophile-enabler and Roman Catholic Cardinal Cormac […]

And Now For Something Completely Different

Dubai’s Khaleej Times op-ed columnist Mohammed A.R. Galadari takes an unexpected view on Jack Straw’s call for the doffing of the veil: Beyond the veil By Mohammed A.R. Galadari 9 October 2006 IT IS so sad to see the newspapers in the UK make fun of the Muslim British citizens over this new controversy about […]

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The War on Women – UK Battlefront Fetus soldier from Miss Poppy UK Christian ‘right-to-lifers’ are hoping to seize their moment to force their views on the public, as South Dakota‘s insane attempt to leverage the Supreme Court into making Margaret Atwood a documentarist and every woman a criminal puts abortion on the political agenda. […]