Thank you Hater! Anti-troll song goes viral
Comedian Isabel Fay takes aim at internet bullies. Just going to let this one speak for itself - comedian Isabel Fay offers a retro-styled tribute to people who leave horrible comments on YouTube...
View ArticleRichard Dawkins calls for Catholic "honesty"
"If they don’t believe in transubstantiation then they are not Roman Catholics," said Dawkins.Richard Dawkins has said that Catholics who do not believe in transubstantiation - the doctrine that the...
View ArticleEgyptian protesters against sexual assault are sexually assaulted
As mob heckles and gropes demonstrators, are women's rights going backwards in Egypt?An Egyptian rally to protest against sexual harassment ended when the participants were attacked and groped by a...
View ArticleThe price of love? £25,700 a year, according to Theresa May
Those who marry non-EU nationals will need to earn £25,700 a year if they want their partners to join them in Britain. Is it fair that only the well-off can marry who they want?There comes a time in...
View ArticleIs there any such thing as British ethnicity?
Ethncity is officially "self-defined". Whether Cornish, Welsh, or Arab, you make a statement when you tick a box.Which box do you tick on forms that ask for your ethnicity? I go for “Mixed...
View ArticleVoters recognise the complexity of migration. It's time policymakers did too
The public recognise the benefits as well as the costs of immigration. The prevailing view about immigration among coalition policymakers goes something like this: Britain has far too many immigrants,...
View ArticleRebekah Brooks granted bail until 22 June
Brooks and her husband make appearance at court following charges of conspiring to pervert the course of justice.The former chief executive of News International, Rebekah Brooks, appeared in front of...
View ArticleCaroline Lucas alleges that an undercover police officer planted an...
The Green MP has alleged that Bob Lambert, a former undercover officer, "placed the incendiary device in the Debenhams store in Harrow". Caroline Lucas, the Green Party MP, has alleged in a debate in...
View ArticleHey, let's "evolve" Lara Croft by having people try to rape her!
"She is literally turned into a cornered animal."How's this for timing? The day after the hoo-hah over Anita Sarkeesian's project to expose stereotyped women in computer games, and the makers of the...
View ArticlePMQs review: Cameron claws back some ground
The PM's performance will have settled some Tory nerves. Ahead of David Cameron's appearance at the Leveson inquiry tomorrow, Ed Miliband led on Jeremy Hunt at today's PMQs, the first for three weeks....
View ArticlePMQs sketch: Hunt a (non)sticking point in coalition cohesion
Tantrums flare over how to deal with the Culture secretary.You could tell it was importantly unimportant when Michael Fallon was put up to say just how unimportant it was. Claude Cockburn once said:...
View ArticleWPP shareholders reject Sir Martin Sorrell's £6.8m pay report
"Message... was unambiguous and cannot be ignored," says one major shareholderFifty-nine and a half per cent of shareholders in the advertising firm WPP have rejected the £6.8m pay plan for its chief...
View ArticleThe campaign against Progress spells pure danger for Labour
The very fact that unions discuss the purging of "Blairites" should be cause for alarm.It is neither a secret nor a surprise that certain people on the left of the Labour party and in the trade union...
View ArticleCosmopolis – review
Vague prophecies of doom dampen R-Patz’s stellar turn.“Prepare to be surprised” runs the poster copy for David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis over a moody shot of the film’s star, Robert Pattinson. Well,...
View ArticleInternet gold rush: Amazon wants .mail, Guardian wants .observer and S.C....
As new top level domains go on sale, companies bid for the land rush.The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, ICANN, has released the full list of the companies bidding on new...
View ArticleExploding the four myths about intervention in Syria
Military intervention will only intensify the violence, not reduce it. There is another way.First, do no harm. That should be engraved on the foreheads of all those who breezily call for intervention...
View ArticleStelios flies again
The easyJet founder is developing an African airline.Stelios Haji-Ioannou, founder of easyJet, is developing a new African airline. This low cost carrier is to be called "Fastjet", and is to operate...
View Article10 ways to save time at work
A handy guide. We all wish we could turn the clock back, make different decisions and spend more time with the kids. With hindsight, we'd all have lived our lives differently, especially, I suspect, at...
View ArticleChallenge Labour and you'll find a horse's head on your pillow
It's all-round compulsory happy time in Labour ranks. A couple of weeks ago I was discussing the local election results with a Labour MP. I explained that my initial reaction had been that they were...
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