An assessment of Labour’s performance on poverty measures. Better than the usual halfwitted rants…

Birchill on Tesco: actually quite good

It appears The People, or at least that subset of The People that post on acrimonious talk boards and read tabloid newspapers, are getting annoyed by immigration.
This comment from this Commentisfree thread is a typical summary, directed at the kind of woolly liberals who think that offering a home to the poor and the persecuted [...]

Religion is not oppressed by secular society (and Christina Odone is a paranoid loon)

British Muslims have exactly the same values as the rest of us. Fact.

If you run a broadcasting organisation, you hire a journalist who discovers that the government is misleading the public in order to justify a foreign war (but who makes his report in a slightly exaggerated fashion, even though that has no impact on the substance of the accusations), and you back him up in the early [...]