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Review: My Brother, the Islamist

My Brother, the Islamist is a documentary in which a film-maker I had never heard of, named Robb Leach (his home page, incidentally, has no biography or reference to any other work by him),...

Why I’ll probably vote No on AV

Next month we will be having a referendum in this country on whether to change our method of electing MPs from the traditional “first past the post”, in which the candidate with the single...

Demo report

So, I made it to the demonstration yesterday, as I had arranged to meet Riven Vincent who wanted someone to walk with her. I got there late because I was delayed leaving home and...

Minorities may die in Midsomer Massacres

The BBC doesn’t have a monopoly on ridiculous plotlines in its drama, despite the recent trends of Casualty, Holby City and EastEnders (not to mention the sappy ridiculousness of the school drama series, Waterloo...

Casualty plots getting ridiculous

Recently I stopped watching EastEnders regularly, as I found the plotlines were getting frustrating and repetitive and were going nowhere. Some would say that Casualty (and its week-night sister programme, Holby City) went the...

Cost of everything, value of nothing

Yesterday, I listened to a discussion on Radio 5 (the Victoria Derbyshire show) featuring Riven Vincent, the mother of a disabled daughter who challenged David Cameron on Mumsnet and then said she was planning...

Gender prejudice in insurance outlawed

BBC News – Insurance and pension costs hit by ECJ gender ruling The European Court of Justice today ruled that it was unlawful for insurance companies to charge different premiums for male and female...

Should we be rescuing Brits from Libya?

Yesterday I heard a discussion on the Radio 2 mid-day discussion programme in which Vanessa Feltz (sitting in for Jeremy Vine who is on holiday, along with several other Radio 2 presenters) debated with...