You thought Andrew Gilligan was in denial: Some of my story was wrong, as I admitted at the inquiry, and I again apologise for it… …But the BBC collectively has been the victim of a grave injustice. , but there’s always a French politician to put things in proportion. According to the BBC: Juppé said […]

I am a Simon Hoggart fan and he has covered the Hutton inquiry in a sharp and insightful way. But he is also a political diarist and he knows that his first duty is to get a laugh. He put the boot into Blair this morning so well I had to snigger too.

Books, records, electronics… now with Amazon you can even buy your own presidential candidate.

Last week Michael Howard laid out his philosophy as Tory leader in a public declaration of 16 beliefs. I dislike and disagree with him, but he came in for a thoroughly undeserved kicking for his statement. Cambridge’s very own Chris Lightfoot half-defended him from the press, now I’ll half-defend Howard too. The Conservative leader’s credo […]

Most PooterGeek readers will probably start to doze off if I mention local government again, which is all the more reason to read this article recommended by local hero Allan Brigham.

Yesterday I joined Sonya at the home of Mr R, the father of one of Sonya’s life-long friends, for morning coffee. He used to work as a barrister in the House of Lords. I had to leave after about an hour (an hour enlivened by his excellent stories) to run down the road and take […]

David Deutsch, the computational physicist, and others argue that we should take children more seriously. The Paper is a publication that does just that. It is written by 10–18-year-olds under the supervision of professional journalists. Some of the results of this publishing experiment explain why we David and friends have such difficulty persuading the World […]

The Telegraph had the best Alastair Campbell “obituary” article I’ve read so far.

It’s a bit parochial, this one, but who cares? I now have a mandate to please myself 😉 . This morning Allan Brigham, Britain’s only celebrity road sweeper, emailed me John O’Farrell‘s latest piece for The Guardian. There are two youth tribes that dominate the City of Cambridge. Fortunately they have complimentary seasons. In Winter, […]

[I take no responsibility for any lunches lost following the following link.] If they could stop all those Jews and orientals and blacks and Arabs from polluting the gene pool, perhaps neo-Nazis could finally attain absolute racial purity.