Bush didn't do it, Biden advised against it, and everyone knew it was a ballsy decision. Given his independent status, the Daily Dish's Andrew Sullivan is a powerful and articulate cheerleader for Obama. Here, he reminds us that the decision to get Bin Laden would have caused the GOP to demand an extra face on Mount Rushmore if only he were a Republican. He says: It was Obama who made that dangero...

Deep-fried peasant with chips anyone? A chippy in Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, is offering this novel dish, making use of those shot on local estates. I am inspired. Peasant is a difficult meat; with almost no integral fat, the flesh can be dry when roasted, needing a bucket of bread sauce and gravy to swallow. Destination deep-fat

"This is a parliamentary process, which as you know conducts itself with dignity and in a civilised fashion." If you read the above statement, you get an idea of just how far out of touch with us common people the UKs media and judicial elites are. Most people who I speak to regard what goes on in Parliament as at best a joke, or at worse a corrupt outrage. During prime ministers questions, w...

Fun looking book from David Friedman. Explanation here and download here. Some of the Moorish/Iberian techniques and combinations, if not the actual recipes, look familiar from the modern day Algarve. For those seriously into cooking could be fun to try out a dish or two.

Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish is on the money as usual, although I think he under-states the genuine difficulty faced by Barack Obama. Sullivan has been blogging consistently against intervention in Libya, and here uses a historical parallel with Palmerston's refusal to take action to support the put-upon Hungarians in 1848. Sullivan uses Obama as the contemporary foil, but it works as well with th...

Ah, the vagaries of the petri dish of the Left, the expensive Liberal Arts college. Want to fit in? Here's your very own guide to social success in the counter-culture stewpot: 1. Despite your Jewish upbringing, support Palestine at all cost. Disregard any and all other atrocities happening across the globe. Palestine is fresh and hip. Not only do you seem engaged and political, you get to ro...

Andrew Sullivan of the Daily Dish is usually on the money. He ended his reflections on yesterday's events in Arizona with this quote from William Manchester's 'Death of a President' - the first paragraph is thus: "In that third year of the Kennedy Presidency a kind of fever lay over Dallas County. Mad things happened. Huge billboards screamed “Impeach Earl Warren.” Jewish stores were smeared w...

The Government should have stuck to its guns, and ended its relationship with Booktrust. There was never any withdrawal of funding or cut as far as I can tell. The last government signed a time-limited deal with the charity to dish out books to children of various ages. That contract is due to come to

Heads up from The Daily Dish Just for fun on Christmas Day morning: A sampling of some videos that went viral in 2010

Tomorrow, John Swinney will deliver the fourth and final budget of the third session of the Scottish Parliament. He has an unenviable task. Since it was re-established, the Sc