You may have read that the BNP have produced a poem which is read out by their soft toy character Billy Brit. Billy Brit reads his poem, “Heroes”, about great white Britons from our history I thought this was a bit wrong, just as think a list singling out only great black Britons is equally [...]

I quite often have a look through the links and sites of people who have commented on my site, as I have found some very interesting blogs — and people — in this manner before. One of the people who commented on my previous blog entry Nadine Dorries: The Witchhunt was a certain Councillor Jack [...]

One of my issues with party politics is the fact that because people are partisan, they take a particular side, and are likely to support those things which attack the other side (or the baddies, as people probably consider them), whilst lashing out at anything which attacks their side. So when you had the whole [...]

I have a nagging feeling that the teachers at my son’s school might have got the somewhat erroneous impression that I’m a racist, fascist bigot. Although it’s also possible that they might not have got this impression. Either way, the mere possibility of this impression occurring is not something that is likely to occur on [...]

…at least if they live in Loughborough, it would appear. …Charnwood Borough Council, in Loughborough, has sickened grieving relatives. They say they are being left to pick up rent bills from the local authority, charged to their loved ones after their deaths. And the only way the charges can be avoided is if the dying [...]

sigh. Where do I start? First, there’s the fact that it seems to be more important to both sides to shout “he said she said” like a playground full of school children than act like reasoned adults and have a debate where finding the best way to run the country is seen as more important [...]

At least, that’s how the statistic was presented to me. Christians more likely to support torture: God must be turning in his grave http://rly.cc/67ANF@bengoldacre Only if you actually look at the research itself, that’s not quite what it’s telling us. For example, there are estimated to be around 2 billion adherents to Christianity (one third [...]

I knew I would like this book. It’s the same sort of thing as the book Risk, which I loved, and Freakonomics, which I loved. It’s not so much a book, as a toolbox. In that sense it is similar to Carl Sagan’s The Demon-haunted World: Science as a candle in the Dark. A toolbox [...]

…in related news, David Davis MP comes over as a thoroughly reasonable chap. By some rather bizarre leap of logic, Derek Barnett, vice president of the Police Superintendents’ Association of England and Wales, says about the police violence reported and the general unease with the policing methods that… we ought to put that in some [...]

The policing of the G20 has caused a lot of news coverage. Firstly, there’s the Ian Tomlinson affair, and the way the Metropolitan Police appear to have tried to deal with this by throwing up a smokescreen to attempt to put themselves in a good light, irrespective of what actually happened. There was no mention [...]