politics

Not the YouTube election, and not the X-Factor election either

For a while it was going to be the YouTube election. Then for a while it was supposed to be the X-Factor election. But what happened in the end was a little from column A and a little from column B.

My complaint to the PCC over Jan Moir

The PCC site is up and running again, so I decided to lodge my own complaint (click here to lodge yours). There are over 20,000 now which is apparently a record. Here’s what I entered in the “Explanation” field, feel free to re-use if you’re rushed for time. Section 1: Accuracy The journalist’s assertions ran [...]

Letter to my MP about Gary McKinnon

As a constituent of yours, I’d like to register my disappointment with the decision regarding Gary McKinnon. I and many other voters had hoped that, under Gordon Brown and Barack Obama, the relationship between the US and the UK had progressed from the arguably dark days of the mid-2000s and that sufficient trust now existed [...]