The New Statesman is quite clear on the subject – you do not have the “right” to discriminate, such a right does not exist.

I would have been quite happy arguing with the headline alone,

The meeja love superlatives – watch them climb aboard the latest nonsensical press release from Stuart Hughes, see them gather like bluebottles round @occupylsx ‘10,000 protestors’ (only you can see them, Jeff) – I

Then it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Tommy, ‘ow’s yer soul?”
But it’s “Thin red line of ‘eroes” when the drums begin to roll …..

Who Are You Tommy? Or rather, who were You?

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Taking an autumnal Sunday afternoon stroll through the Blog heartlands with my trusty keyboard trotting alongside yesterday, I managed to put up an entire flight of feministas – Cor! Feathers everywhere! I

I published this piece this afternoon on Dale and co.It has attracted a string of retweets by the predictable few, and some interesting comments.

The consensus of opinion seems to be that because I have never

75 years ago, 200 carefully selected men, in strict formation and their Sunday best, accompanied by a barber – lest they give the impression of being unemployable en route – set out to march the 299 miles

A suggestion from Saul, following the news that Canadians  are lobbying to change their national animal from the Beaver to the Polar Bear (so very ‘this year’!) .

What animal would you choose to represent

Anonymous, the internet based activist group best known in the UK for its attacks on Amazon, PayPal, Mastercard and Visa in the wake of Wikileak’s publication of the US diplomatic cables, has published its definitive volume of

‘Europe’ as a legal entity was designed to stitch together disparate nations.

As any student of the origins of patchwork quilting (I am not talking of the modern commercialised, ready to sew version) would tell you

The Occupy UK shower have done their best, there was always a delicious irony in their making their bed in the guest accommodation of the wealthiest ‘corporation’ in Britain and certainly the one that pays the lowest

An eerie silence in the Raccoon bar, no e-mails from the prudish Thaddeus telling me I’ve shocked him yet again, nothing from Gildas threatening to put me on the naughty step once more – not even the

Truly it’s not, I promise you. I’ll even give you a link to an ‘authoritative’ source. Honest. Soon as I stop laughing.

You remember all those families living ‘below the poverty line’, the ones the heartless

Of an uneducated workforce.

Where else? Oldham.

A tip of the Raccoon tail to Saul.

I have watched, with increasing amazement, the occupation of various “symbolic” venues by people representing “99%” of society, in protest against the greed of the remaining 1%.

I don’t know who this mysterious 99% is,

What a week to miss in politics!

Liam Fox resigns to spend more time with his exotic extended ‘family’. While we wait with scarcely baited breath to find out which ‘wing’ of his family he will