Don't worry, I don't mean the Indian economy or anything like that. Just their cricket team. Indulge me. Or just skip this. I promise you that this posting is pure cricket, and that it will shed no light whatever on Real Life. Australia are already one up in their four match series, at home against India, and game two just began in Sydney, late last night London time. India lost two earl...

Army foils coup attempt on tiny island of Guinea-Bissau Err, Guinea-Bissau ain’t an island folks. Given recent history a failed coup there is hardly news (umm, well, maybe it’s the failure that makes it so?) but to call it an island is pure ignorance. Sure, it has islands as part of it, true, but then

The Guardian’s study of the August riots is pure advocacy research, designed to harness the power of riotous menace to chattering-class causes.

Dunno if this is R. Murphy or M. Glasman but it’s pretty nutty all the same. Reform of the business franchise? Meh. The rest of it is pure misunderstanding.  

Pretty much for the pure pleasure of it, I have recently been reading The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins. (I chose that link because what it leads to features the same cover artwork as my copy has. Presumably that's the exact same edition as mine.) The basic agenda of this book is explained in its subtitle: "The Evidence for Evolution". I can summarise this evidence by saying that ...

New Home Office figures confirm that the craven attempt to blame England’s August riots on well-organised, evil gangs was pure fantasy.

The front page of today’s Sunday Express claims that 75% want Britain to quit the EU now. This is pure nonsense, and illustrates how weak public opinion is on the issue.

Decision-making, it seems, is pure child's play. So why not let the kids have a go at ruling?

At our party Conference in Birmingham I described accelerated fiscal consolidation as pure poison: “Poison for the party, poison for the Coalition and, most important, poison for the country.” I know that Liberal Democrats in ministerial office cannot be heard to say such things in public. But Liberal Democrats who do not have to labour

As a pure deficit-cutting move it warrants consideration – it was even suggested by Obama's deficit reduction commission. But it's a silly exercise in income redistribution