Of Course We Can’t
Be trusted to vote the right way… Peers have been accused of showing “contempt” for British voters over the proposed EU referendum, saying the public […]
Month: January 2014
More Junk Science
Codswallop in the Indy. A new survey has revealed our love for Lycra-clad cyclists, after a study suggested people perceive them as more intelligent and […]
Minimum Pricing idiocy
It starts out with wibble and goes on from there… A minimum price for alcohol is one of those policies that looks so sensible – […]
Questions to Which…
A Betteridge in the Groan. But does satirising or criticising the great war really denigrate ordinary British soldiers, as the education secretary claims? The answer […]
Confused Nonsense
Melissa Kite tries to conflate drinking too much with alcoholism. She peddles the same tired rhetoric we have come to expect from the new puritans. […]
1914 and All That
We’ve barely got into the Centenary year and the political spats have started. I can’t say that I look upon either party with any great […]
More Authoritarian Scumbaggery
Via Julia, Philip Hensher over at CiF (where else?). As Julia points out, when reading this dreck, the author doesn’t really put forward a problem […]
In Which I Agree With Laurie Penny
Laurie Penny gets it. The government’s filter, which comes into full effect this month after a year of lobbying, will block far more than dirty […]
New Year, Same Old Stories
The obesity epidemic. The number of overweight and obese adults in the developing world has almost quadrupled to around one billion since 1980, says a […]