Category: Politics

Yes, he’s gone. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Every so often I come across something that reminds me of exactly why the left in certain countries don’t quite get enough support to get enough votes to actually win an election, rather than...

There is an interesting blog piece on the election in Ukraine here which gives some information on the criminal past of the so-called winner Victor Yanukovich: Yanukovych has always seemed perfectly fitted for this...

The Register has linked this marvellous David Blunkett policy generator page – a site which can generate “draconian rhetoric, whenever you need it”. It may generate real Plonkett policy. (Hat tip: Roger Whittaker at...

Am I the only person in London who gets thoroughly annoyed at the “Back the Bid” propaganda which is being displayed all over town? I was on the District Line today and saw these...

This is the first real opportunity I’ve had to blog about the outcome of the US elections. Everyone I know is gutted, and the best anyone could come up with as a “silver lining”...

Dr Maxtor has posted an amusing report which indicates that there is a correlation between low IQ and support for Bush. Among people of IQs above 140, there is 80% support for Kerry, among...

The Guardian reports today that a sterilisation policy is underway in northern India, in which gun licences are being issued in return for men receiving vasectomies – in the case of a revolver licence,...

The new edition of the Ecologist magazine is out – this month the main feature is called “Do You Work for a Psycho?”, a feature on the recent film (and book) The Corporation, a...

Shaula Evans at Tzuredzuregusa reports that the George W Bush campaign parody site had been gathering emails which were being mistakenly sent to them instead of to the legitimate campaign site. One of these...

Yesterday the BBC aired the second part of its drama The Power of Nightmares, in which they followed the history of the Islamist movements and the neo-Conservatives during the period of their collaboration in...

Those of you in the UK may be aware of government plans to reform the gambling laws, and among the plans include plans for so-called “Las Vegas-style casinos”. I’m sure all Muslims disapprove of...

Well, I managed to get to the rally organised by “Global Justice UK 2004” which I got the leaflet for yesterday. As I had suspected, there was really no place for Muslims at this...

The BBC is reporting that a couple, of Iraqi origin, have been blocked from buying a house in north-west Wales because they are not from the area. The current owner is talking of suing...

I didn’t know that the vote on fox hunting was about to be taken yesterday until yesterday morning – it’s been debated for years, particularly since the Blair government took power in 1997. (Under...

A lot of Muslims are glad of Michael Moore’s “exposé” of George W Bush’s government, Fahrenheit 9/11, even though everyone knows the film is full of half-truths, distortions and cheap shots, as even people...

It seems the election for the vacant council seat in Millwall, east London, is over, and the Tory candidate has won! The winner is a guy called Simon Rouse, and it seems that this...

Listening to the recent speculation about Tony Blair’s recent “cabinet reshuffle” (i.e. hiring, firing and moving of politicians in his cabinet), one hears a lot about the tension between Gordon Brown and his supporters,...

Simon Heffer of the London Daily Mail has written a piece in this week’s Spectator, in which he calls for western politicians not to play into the hands of the Putin régime, which besides...