Small Beds and Large Bears

Bloggerheads has recently written yet more about the scandalous behaviour and recalcitrance of Patrick Mercer MP (a blogpost from which I take my title). Mercer’s involvement with all sorts of untrustworthy characters is the gift that keeps on giving for the political blogging community. Without wishing to repeat any of Tim’s excellent ongoing investigative work [...]

When an organization endorses a sign, then what that sign says (and what happens to it) reflects on that organization. Just as the attitude of fast food giants to the planet is best reflected in their tacit acceptance of their branded, discarded food wrappers in every hedgerow—because, well, all publicity is good publicity, right?—then the [...]

Speechification’s superb service to the nation has delivered The Human Button into my podcast tracking devicicule recently. It’s broadly speaking a nutritious slice of Reithian radio and very listenable, although just as establishment as milord would have loved to hear. The presenter Peter Hennessy is professor of contemporary British history at Queen Mary, University of [...]

… otherwise I can’t understand why he would want their finances, their homes and their very way of live ruined by runaway climate change in the near future.
I’ve met a few people who, despite being reasonably aware of (and fairly comfortable with) the notion of social responsibility and responsibility towards others, still voted for Boris [...]

I heard on the radio this morning that, as the Tories believe that married couples provide the best environment for children to grow up in, they’ll be offering such families £20 as an incentive. That the Tories are effectively proposing themselves as the party of big-spend is of course concealed by the notion that this [...]

David Cameron and George Michael were at the Carbury festival:
‘That’s what we want, isn’t it? Government approved rock n’ roll? Don’t you want to be at a concert one night, look to your right and see Dan fucking Quayle right next to you, man? You know you’re partying then, you know you’re on the edge! [...]

A pair of bleating morons, both caught in the act of wantonly and selfishly breaking the law, blithely confused rights and responsibilities today. Thankfully some lawyers put them straight, although Mr Francis, an idiot, was heard saying later “The fight for freedom goes on.”
Look, you cretins: look, please. When you accepted your driving licence, you [...]

Smokewriting attempts to understand the fundamental psychology of Israeli actions which, to most on the sidelines, seem utterly illogical. I was reminded of the attitude elucidated as:
This time the Palestinians will understand that we mean business: they didn.t get it in 1989, or in 1997, or in 2002 but they will now.
when I heard an [...]

I’d love to see David Cameron trying this cycling jag in his own constituency. “Get off the road!” the denizens of Witney would helpfully shout at him. They’d cheer him on with “There’s a cycle path over there!” then overtake him at dangerous speed and separation, while blaring their horns as if getting the controls [...]

Toby Young of the Spectator was just on Radio 4, complaining that all the plays produced seemed liberal and lefty. He whined that half a dozen plays had been produced showing how wrong the invasion of Iraq had been but none showing how bad Saddam was, and attributed this to theatre directors thinking that such [...]