From Nanny State to Ninny State
Never mind the quality of the benevolent concern, just feel the width of the legislation! HMG is banning cigarettes for anyone born after 2008. Another stupid idea chugged out of…
Never mind the quality of the benevolent concern, just feel the width of the legislation! HMG is banning cigarettes for anyone born after 2008. Another stupid idea chugged out of…
Today at a surprise press conference, Melania Trump denied taking any cookies from the cookie jar. ‘I did not take any cookies from the cookie jar,’ she told assembled journalists.…
Oops! I’ve been criminalised in the UK while living in Japan Hi, my name’s Chris, and I am criminal. I am a British national, I live in Japan yet I…
I’m old enough to remember when we had reasons for wars. No, really, it used to be a thing: having reasons for wars. There was even a legal term for…
Keir Starmer is said to be incandescently green with fury today. He is also green with bile, and green with an overpowering nausea when he thinks about the future, the…
In one episode of the 80s comedy The Young Ones, the four housemates discover oil in the basement of their London student house. This leads Mike and Vyvyan to mount…
“Usually they say, ‘he’s a horrible dictator-type person … I’m a dictator. But sometimes you need a dictator!” — DonaldTrump, World Economic Forum, Davos, 21 January 2026 If Trump wants…
It is an irony that the politician so keen on introducing digital identity cards has no identity of his own. It is this absence of identity that is impelling him…
Evan Findlay Hay, long-time droog, scholar, occasional acrobat around (or, ahem, dangling above) a pool table, and all-round dangerous mind, has put out a mini book The Gospel According to…
The genocide in Gaza is also a corporate genocide In the UK, six people were charged with terrorism offences on September 3 for making Zoom calls to organise a protest…