madness

  • Schools ‘avoid Holocaust lessons’

    BBC NEWS | Education | Schools ‘avoid Holocaust lessons’Who do they think they’d offend? The local Nazi children?

  • James Bond in Openshaw?

    This is worrying. I can only imagine that it’s an example of the government’s joined-up thinking: Tessa Jowell reckons all those BBC types will make loadsamoney when they swap their bijou London residences for grim northern terraces, and as a result will have lots to spend at the shiny new casino…

  • It’s a snip!

    Have a look at this- ‘Table-sized flat’ for £170,000 So, after you’ve visited the trendy bars and “leisure facilities”, you wouldn’t be inviting anyone back for a coffee, would you?

  • Don’t you know your left from your right?

    Don’t you know your left from your right? | Review | The Observer This is an extract from Nick Cohen’s new book, and is an exemplary demolition of the bizarre position some leftists have got themselves into: anti-war, but apologists for random suicide bombings. The tortuous logic adopted by such people is pernicious, and led…

  • They’re mad aren’t they?

    I thought this was a spoof at first – but, incredibly, it isn’t. Can we just nuke Macdonald’s, please? Maybe the Earl of Sandwich can press the button…

  • Shooting Fish in a Barrel

    This is an easy target, I know, but I just can’t resist: Health and Safety. At my place of work, we recently had installed, at great expense, and over a long period of time, special fire safety doors to stop the spread of the fires which, of course, regularly break out… These doors are situated…