I find it hard to like the right wing Tories – find it hard to like any of the current crop of political figures; I am a natural Libertarian from instinct rather than ideology.

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Priscilla, Queen of the Desert: Two drag queens and a transsexual get a cabaret gig in the middle of the desert.

I was so, so, sorely tempted to pinch

What an insight for International Women’s Day into the Neanderthal mentality of a representative example of the women behind Alex Salmond’s prospective throne – Joan McAlpine , throwing her journalistic ability behind the knee-jerking nationalistic pretensions of

Latvia has its one-legged lesbians, according to Mr Webcameron.

Bristol has its one-legged diabetics, according to the

Did you watch watch the BBCs Children in Need programme last year? Were you moved by the winsome graphics of hideously disabled small people bravely soldiering on without the necessary

Patriotism, the last refuge of the scoundrel or the Miliband. Or as that old trade union firebrand Clive Jenkins once put it, “when the British ruling class is in trouble

My apologies folks – a catalogue of woes coming up, but if I am to continue blogging and running a non-aligned blog for you all to chat in, then I need

Now, let me see – every column must contain nine numbers and a nought – mustn’t repeat a number in any column – yup, the Greek debt is 17 trillion, 4 million and…

Start again,

There are three truths that are unlikely ever to be universally acknowledged about Scottish Politics:

Firstly, that First Minister’s Questions at Holyrood are even more a game of

This is what happens when decent journalists are too scared to pay Old Bill for top notch stories – we end up with a media pawing at the ground and