Details of MPs’ expenses are for sale, alleges an indignant member. A terrible breach of privacy that may reveal all kinds of perfectly legal but very embarrassing purchases. Tabloid editors must be very tempted to enter a bidding war. The embarrassment of Jacqui Smith is a good thing. It has exposed the system Continue reading
As this summer’s European Elections approach, we may expect Conservative politicians to heed the likes of the Telegraph’s Christopher Booker and fight for the ‘right of workers to work more than 48 hours a week’. Booker reckons we should all be outraged that limiting working hours will cost business £11.9bn each year. But Continue reading
Showing now and until 18 April 2009 at ‘Ealing’s flagship cultural venue’ is what claims to be the first major contemporary exhibition to explore the experiences of Irish immigrant artists in London: The Quiet Men. The five artists represented include my uncle, Dermot Holland (pictured), Brian Whelan (curator), John Duffin, Bernard Canavan and Continue reading
‘Does an ID card restrict your right to live your life as you choose? No. Does it restrict your right to freedom of speech and association? No. Does it restrict your right to work or to enjoy your spare time in the way you want to? No. Nor does it restrict your right Continue reading
That Mullah Abdullah Zakir, a former inmate at Guantanamo Bay, is now a Taliban commander is a huge propaganda coup for those who believe we need to give up some of our freedom if we are to defeat those who would take our freedom away. Mullah Abdullah Zakir is now free to wage Continue reading
Congratulations to LabourList for publishing Leila Deen’s cringing attempt at a feminist defence of her gunging Lord Mandelson. Leila Deen (who claims to be attractive – check her out, but don’t bitch), peddles a silly line that if the women ruled the world everything would be different, climate change being ‘a problem created Continue reading
