Could the #superinjunction lead to Twitter being banned in the UK?
This evening’s news that a professional sportsman who may or may not be the person known as ‘CTB’ has filed legal proceedings against Twitter and ‘persons unknown’ appears to have prompted a degree of...
View ArticleDaily Mail threatens blogger with libel over 2-year old post
Kevin Arscott of the ‘Angry Mob‘ blog is a reasonably well-known figure in the British blogosphere, one of several bloggers who specialise in tracking and exposing some of the worst excesses of tabloid...
View ArticleThe TaxPayers Alliance and their disingenuous polling
Today, the ‘Tax Payers’ Alliance’ are touting a new opinion poll which, so they claim, ‘reveals that the public support billions in spending cuts to foreign aid, high speed rail, trade union funding...
View ArticleLesson for Dorries: report says abstinence education doesn’t work
The American Foundation for AIDS Research published a new issue briefing in 2007, which fully deserves to be widely circulated. It assesses the effectiveness of abstinence-only sex education programmes...
View ArticleWhy Nadine Dorries is indeed pushing abstinence-only education
There is some considerable – and I might also say deliberately contrived – confusion as to the question of whether tory MP Nadine Dorries’ abstinence bill amounts to the promotion of abstinence-only...
View ArticleNadine Dorries claims backing for her campaign but it’s not so simple
Yesterday, Conservative MP Nadine Dorries posted a press release on her blog, claiming that the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) backed the amendment that she and Frank Field...
View ArticlePoor memory? Blame evolution, not Google
If you mooch around the science sections of popular news websites this weekend then chances are you’ll encounter something called ‘The Google Effect’. From what I can tell, the BBC’s report started out...
View ArticleExclusive: How the government is exaggerating the cost of abortions
Last week the Telegraph revealed ‘new figures’ from the government that put the cost of abortions £30m ‘higher than previously thought’. Lord Alton, the crossbench peer who obtained the new figures,...
View ArticleMeet the Panelists – BBC Question Time 09-12
Apropos of my recent blog on tokenism and gender balance in the composition of BBC Question Time panels, I’ve now pulled together a complete list of the people who have made at least one appearance on...
View ArticleHow the Telegraph and Mail attacked gay marriage through the ECHR
It’s been widely observed that, since it was taken over by Barclay Brothers, The Daily Telegraph has noticeably shifted downmarket and has come to resemble a broadsheet version of the Daily Mail. It is...
View ArticleThe silly reason why every abortion requires two signatures
In his ongoing war on abortion rights, yesterday Andrew Lansley said: The rules in the Abortion Act are there for a reason – to ensure there are safeguards for women before an abortion can be carried...
View ArticleThis is why the MPs letter on prayer healing is so dangerous
It would be extremely easy to poke fun at the utterly idiotic and opportunistic letter that three Christian MPs have sent to the Advertising Standards Authority in an effort to pressure them to...
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The religious fanatics behind Tory plans to block porn
I’ve just been reading through Clare Perry’s ‘Independent Parliamentary Inquiry into Online Child Protection‘ which, of course, recommends the introduction of opt-in porn filters on internet...
View ArticleAdvertising Standards Authority vs Archbishop Cranmer
As a general rule of thumb anything that winds up Cranmer is usually a good thing so it’s with some amusement that I have report that 24 people including a ‘Jewish Gay and Lesbian group’ have reported...
View ArticleMost women don’t need counselling before abortion, shows study
A new study has been published by the Guttmacher Institute which sheds some interesting light on women’s needs and choices at the point at which they make contact with abortion service providers. The...
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By using age to allocate NHS funding, Lansley rewards Tory voters
Health secretary Andrew Lansley said at a NHS Clinical Commissioners conference in April: “age is the principal determinant of health need”. It follows from this the NHS should devote a greater...
View ArticleThis is the real meaning of a ‘pro-life’ stance
If you download this Powerpoint presentation, which was produced by Dr Peter Saunders of the Christian Medical Fellowship in conjunction with what was then (2007) the ‘Alive and Kicking’ anti-abortion...
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Dorries: ‘I’ve not taken an overseas jolly’. Untrue
Nadine Dorries wrote a self-serving pile of rubbish at Comment is Free. Same old selective memory. In my seven and a half years as an MP I think it is important to state that I have never taken a...
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It’s not just the Met police that is failing women…
I don’t know how much national press coverage this story will get but the Birmingham Mail is reporting another sorry case of a Police officer falling down on the job: A “rogue” policeman has quit the...
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More questions about Maria Hutchings’s CV [updated]
Political Scrapbook has revealed this morning that, despite presenting herself as an experienced business woman, Eastleigh Tory candidate Maria Hutchings has never been a director of a limited company....
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Convictions for rape: how the Crown Prosecution Service is misleading us
According to the Crown Prosecution Service, rape convictions have hit an all -time high: The Crown Prosecution Service has today published new figures that show the conviction rate for rape and...
View ArticleWhy hasn’t Nadine Dorries MP declared her recent earnings?
Almost six months on from her all-too-public appearance on ‘I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here’, Nadine Dorries still hasn’t registered her income from appearing on the show with the House of Commons...
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Why Nadine Dorries is so eager to go into an alliance with UKIP
You would normally expect an MP who has only just had their party whip reinstated after a six month suspension to lie low for a while but not Nadine Dorries. She wants an alliance with UKIP. But thy is...
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Why Cameron faces stiff resistance to gay marriage: mapping the UK religious...
Given the debate in the House of Commons, I think it’s well worth reflecting on exactly where opposition to equal marriage is coming from and, particularly, how that opposition is being organised. As...
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How IPSA is misleading us all in trying to raise MPs wages
By now you’ll surely have seen the that IPSA, the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, has recommended that MPs should receive a 9% increase in their pay in 2015/16 which, on top of the 1%...
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