The remorseless illiberal logic of the ‘we don’t like it, so ban it’ lobby is now leeching its way into the lives of meat-eaters.

Yes. This … … has finally moved out of my home, and out of my life. Last week, Men collected it and took it … I don't know here. A dump, presumably. I recently wrote here about the continuing life of physical books and about the limitations of the idea of the paperless office or paperless home. Office-working commenters piled in to describe the ...

Official Metropolitan police figures contradict Boris Johnson's wild claims on police officer numbers. New research has discovered Boris Johnson's re-election website has falsely claimed there are 722 more police officers operating in London than the latest official figures reported by the Metropolitan Police. The Tory mayor's official campaign website, BackBoris2012.com is currentl...

Comment just attached, by "Malcolm", to my posting here a while back entitled Austrianism as Number Two: Newsnight has just introduced its story on Ed Milliband's decision today to back the government's pay freeze by playing the Keynes v Hayek video from Econstories.tv The narrator even described it as a "fabulous" video that is "easily the most entertaining explanation of the issues" - ...

Professor James Holmes has a piece online today in which he calls himself a "reluctant convert" to the idea of stationing LCS's in Singapore and according to Holmes, perhaps in the Philippines.  Here's a key thought from Holmes:  "The LCS, then, may be the right ship for the Southeast Asian theater while drawing the venom from Chinese rhetoric. In some ways, an LCS squadron wou...

            The downgrade of Euroland bonds has been like the green bottles song. Now there are just Germany and the Netherlands left. I pointed out a long time ago on this site that the famous big bazooka EFSF, the fund they said would rescue Euro countries in trouble, always rested on their ability to

Only one council by-election yesterday: Cinderford West Ward, Forest of Dean DC. Lab hold. Full result to follow.

One diplomat told The Daily Telegraph: “The BBC has to make amends, particularly to assuage the hurt sentiment of a very large number of people. “We understand the free press – they are welcome to explain and to challenge as long as it is fair and above the belt. Can this pass as acceptable journalism?

The campaign to excise offensive language from football games is a class war masquerading as an anti-racist initiative.

Being aglass-half-full sort of person when it comes to the state of the Labour Party ( thought I should respond to theglass-half-empty blog post by Anthony Painter ( up by Peter Watt ( Anthonysays the Party has “stopped pretending it’s in trouble when clearly it is”.This is clearly nonsense, everyone I know in the Labour Party spends theirentire time full of angst about why we lost and what ...