Banning things that should never have been allowed and allowing things that should never have been banned

This evening the Prime Minister has released a statement of posthumous apology to Alan Turing.
Turing was the father of modern computer science. In 1999 Time Magazine named Turing as one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century for his role in the creation of the modern computer, stating: “The fact remains that everyone [...]

Tories: We’re the progressive party…well, not him. Or him. Or him.

Lots of noise yesterday about George Osbourne’s claim that the Tories are carrying the ‘torch of progressive politics‘.
I’ve actually never been a big fan of the word ‘progressive’. I think it tends to be used in the Labour Party by people who don’t want to use the word ’socialist’. But what does it mean to [...]

What are you doing next weekend?

It’s Young Labour’s National Youth Day in Gillingham next Saturday…I’m not going, as I’m allergic to Kent, but just in case any of my LGBT readers (yeah, I know I only have about 7 regular readers, but I bet a lot of you are gay) are going, I thought I’d encourage you to vote for [...]

Peter Robinson should be made to resign.

We all remember the thing about how his wife said “There can be no viler act, apart from homosexuality and sodomy, than sexually abusing innocent children.” So far, so homophobic; but, well, she’s his wife – it’s bad enough that the MP and MLA for Strangford says stuff like that in public, especially as she’s chair [...]

How many gay Tories does it take to change a party?

If you’ve read this blog before you might already know the one about the Tories being given discounted lapdances while at their conference in Birmingham.

The Sun, spotting an unmissable evidence-gathering opportunity for their mission to demonstrate that women are incapable of coherent thought, hurried to the scene to ask pole-dancers questions about public policy. In [...]

I read the news today, oh boy

Couple of my friends from Manchester Campaignsville in the MEN today: first Derin, promoting Oxfam’s Massive Blanket Tour (I can’t seem to find a link to this, the MEN website giving precedence to pictures of some half-naked rich twat), which will by the way be a fringe event in itself at Labour Conference, at Beluga [...]