Considering how Rupert Murdoch‘s Fox News is so rabidly pro-Bush, it’s somewhat surprising to learn that his Sunday Times has been conducting an investigation designed to politically harm Vice President Dick Cheney. Everyone knows that Cheney’s connection to oil company … Continue reading →

Post-debate poll results are hitting in force, and it looks like Kerry managed to piss just about everyone off with his reference to Dick Cheney’s daughter. For those who missed it, the candidates were asked if they thought homosexuality was … Continue reading →

Poor old Boris has got himself into a spot of bother thanks to a rather poorly-judged comment in The Spectator, bemoaning the country’s response to Ken Bigley’s death as an over-reaction. Boris has apologised, and his boss at Conservative Central … Continue reading →

I�ve had another one of those comments which deserves a response in full � this time about a post I did about a pamphlet highlighting how shit the UKIP are which has been produced by the Labour MEP Richard Corbett, … Continue reading →

Via the wonderful place that is B3ta, where I spend far more time than is strictly healthy, comes the news that our old friend Kilroy is threatening to sue a webmonkey over the delightful video which has been at spoof … Continue reading →

Robert Mugabe is a raving lunatic who has been buggering up Zimbabwe for years. His political opponents are regularly beaten up and threatened. He has used loyal police and soldiers to intimidate voters at the polls. He has banned most … Continue reading →

The death has been announced of Conrad Russell, fifth Earl Russell, Lib Dem peer, and – most importantly – foremost of the generation of revisionist historians who did so much to enrich our understanding of the British civil wars.

It’s a bit of a shame Kerry couldn’t deliver the killer blow, but unfortunately Bush seems to have got his game a little bit back on track. The first poll, the results of which were released by ABC news 25 … Continue reading →

How are they going to get out of this one? Looks like the European Parliament are trying to veto the Italian Commissioner’s appointment after all. If they can’t get Italy (i.e. Buttiglione’s mate Berlusconi) to withdraw the nomination and choose … Continue reading →

The two somewhat put-upon politicians gave a joint press conference yesterday, taking in a range of European issues but – perhaps unsurprisingly, throwing out little that was controversial or new. Barroso once again defended the Commission’s new Mr Controversy, Rocco … Continue reading →

Blogging Labour MEP Richard Corbett, who is also one of the contributors to UKIP Watch, has got the UK Independence Party in a bit of a huff with his pamphlet 25 Things You Didn’t Know When You Voted for UKIP … Continue reading →

The consipracy theories about the sinister right-wing group who supposedly plotted the ousting of Saddam Hussein as far back as 1997, and who are the puppetmasters behind the Bush presidency, have been knocking around for a while. Rarely have they … Continue reading →

Not quite, and it’s pretty close, but still… As I noted the other day, there was a fair amount of opposition already, but it still didn’t look like anyone would seriously oppose Rocco Buttiglione’s appointment as such a move could … Continue reading →