I have commented before on the singer, Soulja Boy (see Video killed the radio star on this blog), with regard to people playing music out loud on their mobile phones:
The speakers are rubbish and any sound that comes out (quite apart from the lyrical delights of Soulja Boy’s wonderful hit, Crank Dat (Soulja Boy), which [...]

Sunny Hundal asks a couple of interesting questions over at Pickled Politics; should a no-platform policy with regards to the BNP be continued and should that it be extended to groups like Hizb ut-Tahrir?
By way of a background, I understand a no-platform policy (in the instance of the BNP) to mean that no-one from an [...]

If Ms Dorries (’Hounds of Hell‘) has had unpleasant things sent through the post, threatening calls and messages smeared on her window, I urge her to call the police, for her own protection and for that of her family and staff, but also to protect the debate. I would firmly disassociate myself from anyone who [...]

The Space Hijackers - who describe themselves as “an international band of anarchitects who battle to save our streets, towns and cities from the evils of urban planners, architects, multinationals and other hoodlums” - came up with the idea of the Circle Line Party. In an effort to reclaim part of the urban landscape, a [...]

Matt Sinclair has an interesting post up, in response to Will Hutton’s article, on the role of universities in promoting America’s hegemonic position. In short, Matt says that non-Western countries lack (in short) the cultural situation that allows Socratic method to flourish and that good academia attracts good academics.
To an extent, Matt is right, but [...]

This cheery fellow woke me this morning with his song.

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xD.

Speaking on the BBC World Service (audio clip here), Frank Field MP (Lab, Birkenhead) said:
With this budget coming up [...] if we don’t get a satisfactory deal I think there’s enough members on the Labour back benches who will, with others, block the budget and that will make his position intolerable at that stage.
If the [...]

I wish to express my support for the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill and my opposition to the amendment proposed by Nadine Dorries MP (Con, Mid Beds) that would restrict abortion to the first twenty weeks of gestation as opposed to the current twenty-four weeks1.
The key proposals of the bill are

ensuring that all human [...]

Since time immemorial, the White Cliffs at Dover have welcomed peregrines and knights errant back to the British Isles. It is fitting, then, that a landmark is to be built at Ebbsfleet, within sight of the western end of the Eurostar station and on the modern gateway to London, the South East and beyond. The [...]

Mayor Johnson, as we know, opposed the smoking ban. His voting history on the issue can be found on TheyWorkForYou.com. The noxious fumes produced by the evil weed were not, it would seem, enough in Mr Johnson’s opinion to warrant an intrusion on people’s liberty and bar and pub workers would have to lump it; [...]