With this flag-flying lark, Reform are getting closer to the old National Front by the day. I'm not blaming Nigel for this - no doubt he's aware of the political perils - but many of his allies seem … (View Post)

Nuts in May was very funny. It also contains one of the only two 'cultural references' I'm aware of to the old University of Wales part-one system (the other being Kingsley Amis's 'Luck Jim'). (View Post)

What's currently notable is that a large element within politics and the pundit class - who you'd expect to be the gatekeepers of careful analysis and moderate language - have leapt on the racial ban… (View Post)

Surely the most lionized person ever whose only notable feature is to have called for the mass murder of innocents. (View Post)

The article also makes clear that Connolly was wishing suffering and death on innocent human beings, while Jones was merely wishing it on cuddly Nazis. Now, I personally deplore all violence, but for… (View Post)