Times forced to admit: we printed garbage
Last year, the Times carried a story that a young girl of Christian background had not been allowed to eat pork under her Muslim foster carers' roof, on their front page. They also claimed...
Indigo Jo Blogs Blog
Has the “Human Rights movement” failed?
How the Human Rights movement failed (from the New York Times) In this article, Yale law and history professor Samuel Moyn argues that the backsliding of various countries such as the Philippines and Hungary,...
The Lib Dems’ despicable bargain
I sometimes regret the fact that I still live in a fairly affluent part of outer London which has been, for most of the past generation, a Lib Dem stronghold, particularly when I see...
Animal rights are no excuse for racism
The other day the 80's pop star Morrissey, best known for being the frontman for the Smiths, gave an interview in which he backed the far-right party called For Britain, set up by a...
Who really loses out here?
This is a sign which, allegedly, appeared on a college hall of residence in Toronto, Canada. It points left to a non-accessible bathroom for men, and right for an accessible one with a hoist...
Does it matter where the term ‘Islamophobia’ comes from?
Why are so many left-wing progressives silent about Islam’s totalitarian tendencies? by Julie Bindel (free registration required) This article is on Unherd, a right-leaning opinion site edited by Tim Montgomerie (founder of ConservativeHome), and...
About those free rides …
Some friends of mine have been sharing a Labour election video on Facebook. The 15-second video claims that the next Labour government will make bus travel free for under-25s in England before telling people,...
On DIY SOS and accessibility
The other day I watched a repeat of an episode of the BBC series DIY SOS: The Big Build. It's where the BBC get some architects, designers and local builders and other workers and...
Keeping Corbyn out is not enough
Yesterday I came across a blog post by Nora Mulready, one of the most sanctimonious anti-Corbyn agitators among the centre-Left, welcoming the announcement of a "new party" in last Sunday's Observer — which, as...
Centrists must learn that it’s not 1997 anymore
According to a report in today's Observer (effectively the Guardian on Sunday), a group of "entrepreneurs, philanthropists and donors" have been developing plans for a new centrist party for about a year. The foundation,...
Review: The Silent Child
The other day I watched a repeat of an episode of the BBC series DIY SOS: The Big Build. It's where the BBC get some architects, designers and local builders and other workers and...
Why Egyptian TV covers American police violence
Earlier today I saw a tweet by Shaun King, an American race activist, about Egyptian media coverage and popular interest in American police shootings and resulting protests: I am in Egypt. The murder of...
How (not) to argue with Brexiteers
Last Friday Nick Cohen posted a series of tweets about what he described as the tendency of Labour Remainers to "snuggle down in the soft warm bed of conspiracy theory" in explaining why the...
Why are service stations a rip-off?
Today the transport secretary, Chris Grayling, called for an investigation into what he called "exploitative" fuel prices at motorway service stations, which are typically 20p per litre above prices elsewhere (and the gap between...
When racists rage against racism
The controversy that started last week when someone dug up a five-year-old Facebook comment by Jeremy Corbyn on a picture of an anti-Semitic mural by an obscure London artist has not gone away. What...
‘Sloven Health’ fined £2m
Today, the Hampshire based NHS trust Southern Health was fined nearly £2,000,000 for health and safety breaches in regard to the preventable deaths of two patients: Connor Sparrowhawk, the "Laughing Boy" of the Justice...
Thinking of becoming a Tory?
This week someone dug up a Facebook post from October 2012 by a muralist called "Mear One" which shows a mural of a bunch of bearded figures (which he explains as representing Jewish bankers)...
Why I’m not closing my Facebook account (yet)
Since the scandal broke about Facebook data being leaked to Cambridge Analytica, a New York-based political consultancy which served the Trump and Brexit campaigns and used the data to channel propaganda to susceptible voters,...
Why disrupt a picket line?
Footage has emerged of a group of trans activists, all women, one of them perhaps trans, protesting at a Bectu union picket line outside a cinema in Brixton (where there is a long-running pay...
Enough of the naivety about Putin
Last week the British prime minister, Theresa May, took most of the action she had promised to do after the Russian government did not answer for the attempted murder of a former spy and...