Its May Day, it’s Fiona Parker’s birthday, and its time for elections!
If you’re in London, you can exercise your democratic rights by voting for the Mayor, the Policeman, or the Blonde Imbecile (not that I’m trying to influence you or anything).
If you live in London and don’t vote today, then you have no right to [...]

So, much in the news this last weekend about Catholic bishops criticising the forthcoming embryology bill… The issue? Mainly that of making human-animal ‘hybrids’; scientists say its good progress, and will help develop useful new treatments; the bishops didn’t like it, one going so far as to call it ‘Frankensteinish’. 
Since then, there has been much [...]

Words are important: in so many forms of modern human communication, they are all we have to convey meaning to each other. Yet too often, in the hands of politicians and the media words and phrases that have very specific meanings are twisted or diminished, almost to the point of becoming meaningless.
I have been appalled [...]

So after tons and tons of speculation, media hype, and plenty of comment from ministers, it looked by Friday morning that we were certain to have an election in the next month…
…and then Gordon saw the polls.
The press are having a field-day, which they quite deserve. It hasn’t been the political writers driving the speculation [...]

This story has saddened me, and is beginning to wind me up.
Learco Chindamo is a young man who, over 12 years ago (at the age of only 15!) made a stupid, stupid mistake to be part of a gang. That gang membership led to a fight outside a school where a brave teacher tried to [...]