The quinquennial General Election carnival of Tweddledum versus Tweedledee is on again, as increasingly indistinguishable managers slug it out to see who can gain access to the largest number of teats, sorry seats. This time, there is a twist, as the media have uncovered a new ingredient to add to ...
On 3 April, the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) announced that it was joining the National Union of Teachers (NUT) to recommend boycotting KS2 SATs. I"d better explain all these acronyms—or IBEATAs. This alphabet soup signifies that Britain's largest teaching unions have ...
The Independent is a newspaper with intellectual pretensions, and unlike most British papers often uses words with more than two syllables. But so far as most of it is concerned it is fair to say what Truman Capote declared about the works of Jack Kerouac, "That's not writing, it's typing". ...
"Progressive London Conference": the phrase is simultaneously gruesome and narcoleptic. It hints at almost illimitable tedium, wishful thinking, a tincture of vitriol and much more than a soupcon of sanctimony. It carries bland and bathetic connotations"like a recurring nightmare of ...
Few cartoon characters have been loved"or argued over"more than Tintin, the Belgian reporter-cum-detective whose adventures have been translated into over 50 languages and sold over 200 million books. To be precise, it is not Tintin as such who is controversial but the "contradictory ...
On the 15th of October, the British National Party and the government's Equality and Human Rights Commission faced each other in court in London, for a short but significant hearing that was always a foregone conclusion. In the Red corner was John Wadham, Legal Director of the EHRC, the ...
Under Discussion: Christopher Caldwell, Reflections on the Revolution In Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West, Doubleday (2009), 432 pages. Christopher Caldwell opens his Burke-evoking opus examining postwar Europe's dramatic demographic transformation by adapting Sir John Seeley's ...
On Thursday 4th June, British voters went to the polls to elect 72 British members of the European Parliament. These polls were carried out simultaneously with elections to 34 English local authorities and three mayoral positions. The elections were widely anticipated to deliver a blow to Gordon ...
Is Free Speech Banned in the UK? Like all governments, the British state has always endeavored to prevent potential troublemakers entering the country. And in 2005, following much criticism from the media for permitting the free movement of sundry psychotic imams, the government's discretionary ...
On 3rd February, it was announced that Margaret Thatcher's daughter Carol would no longer be used to present reports on BBC television's weekday magazine programme, "The One Show." The decision was made because of a remark she made off-air, when she referred to Franco-Congolese tennis ...
