The company which lost the personal details of thousands of criminals is to have its contract terminated, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith announced today.

The First TransPennine Express rail company has announced a new money-saving measure: trains will now keep their doors open at stations for only 30 seconds, reducing the amount of energy - and therefore cash - required to keep the company's carriages temperate. Barely an eyelid has been batted in response to this important financial decision. Presumably customers are saving their own energy f...

Not a moment too soon, the government has terminated one of its many contracts with PA Consulting, the company which lost the details of thousands of criminals which, inexplicably and indefensibly, they had stored in unencrypted form on a memory stick. The position as regards as many as eight other contracts the company has with the government is also under review. So far, so good. The next step i...

It was only a matter of time. Yours truly has fallen in with bad company, bad company who spend their time Twittering. I know a bandwagon when I see one and it would be very out of character if I didn't hop aboard. So for the first and last time ever, here are my tweets for this day of our Lord, 10th March. >>> Sob, only two weeks of Battlestar left! What the hell is going to happen? >>> What...

It's a good thing perhaps that I am off to Church in an hour because I was rather angry (although not surprised), to have come across this (now pulled) story from the Sunday Express (Hat tip to Glinner on Twitter)! Why am I not surprised, well given their coverage of Princess Diana and Madeline McCann, I have come to expect nothing less than gutter journalism from the Express! Its a vile news...

The BBC reports: An "express lane" for pedestrians who want to travel along Edinburgh's Princes Street quickly without being held back by shoppers is being mooted. Tory councillor Jason Rust, said he planned to launch a motion to councillors next month with the idea to help combat "pavement rage".If a Labour or Lib Dem councillor did that, right-wing bloggers would be banging on about the "na...

In May this year, according to the Electoral Commission website: Conservative And Unionist Party [The] Conservative Central Office Fidelity Investment Management Ltd status: Company company reg no: 2349713 Oakhill House 130 Tonbridge Road Hildeborough Kent TN11 9DZ 30/05/08 £ 30,000.00 Coincidentally I've just done my first post on Labour Outlook about this very issue (before I had the ...

Let's keep this one relatively brief, as I have no intention of giving the Express any more hits for their blatant rabble rousing. You might recall last year that the Express distorted a Sheffield council report which was a plan for averting possible tensions in the city into a "ethnic baby boom crisis" which was due to precipitate "race trouble".They've done much the same thing today, albeit on t...

I’ve just done my first post for the new media watch site Express Watch UK. It’s about some immigrants and home owners getting scammed by dodgy estate agent. The Express blames the immigrants, naturally.

Sometimes I wonder if it's childish to refer to the Express as 'Der Sturmer'. Not today. Just a quick post today, since I'm off on a stag do this afternoon, but Anton Vowl over at the Enemies of Reason has some great stuff about an incredible low point in the coverage of immigration in the Mail, and especially the Express. (See 'Prove it, you lying racist bastards.' and 'Invade, vb.') It had