An interesting Diary piece by Hugh Muir in the Guardian: Back with discomforting news about discord within the Swinton Circle, the group that inhabits the murky ground between the crazies on the far right and the outer reaches of David Cameron’s Conservative party…There was, it seems, a furore about the alleged infiltration of the meeting […]
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Milo Yiannopoulos sends a text message to Davis Richardson, a journalist with the US Observer: I’m suing you and the Observer. 233,000 tweets today accused me of being responsible for 5 deaths. That’s on you and your headline. I didn’t want to spend the $3m it would have taken to get Simon and Schuster to court […]
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At this stage, it would be unwise to draw firm inferences from what has been said about the political links and mental health of Thomas Mair (var. Tom Mair, Tommy Mair), who is alleged to be the murderer of Jo Cox MP. However, with snippets of information and counter-claims being bandied back and forth across […]
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(Expanded and revised from an earlier blog entry following Mann’s 4 November statement in Parliament) Mann announces receiving “Dickens Dossier” From the Telegraph, 21 October: A dossier of evidence of an alleged paedophile ring which was believed to have been lost has been handed to a Labour MP who has been at the forefront of demands […]
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This one has already had widespread coverage; from the Independent: The prominent Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg has become embroiled in a race row after he spoke at a dinner organised by an extreme right-wing group which backs the repatriation of ethnic minority Britons. Mr Rees-Mogg spoke of his shock of learning about the views of the […]
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The Daily Mail sniffs out a story about Laura Adshead, a former girlfriend of David Cameron who has reportedly become a nun based at the Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem, Connecticut: Laura dated him from the spring of 1990 until summer 1991, and while he worked at Conservative Central Office, she went on to become the then […]
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UPDATE: See note at end of post Here’s an odd one: the Sun (“exclusive by Luke Heighton”), the Daily Mail (“by Tom Gardner”), and Christian Concern (sourced to the Daily Mail) have all scrubbed articles quoting statements attributed to Baroness Caroline Cox at a symposium held at the House of Lords on Monday 19 March. The symposium, entitled “Islamist […]
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As has been widely reported, the latest Mail on Sunday decided that the most important thing we all need to know about is the fact that parts of the BBC website use the dating terms “BCE” and “CE”, rather than the more old-fashioned “BC” and “AD”. While most of us don’t give this long-established academic convention a second […]
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Last month, the Guardian reported on exposed undercover police officer Mark Kennedy’s links to corporate spying: The undercover police officer whose unmasking led to the collapse of a trial of six environmental protesters on Monday apparently also worked as a corporate spy, according to documents seen by the Guardian. …In February 2010 – a month before […]
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As Nadine Dorries MP faces continued unwelcome scrutiny over her love life and her expenses, Ed West has come to the rescue with a soft-ball interview in the Catholic Herald which emphasises her “bravery” on the issue of abortion: …Those unfamiliar with the world of blogs and social networking site Twitter will not fully appreciate how […]
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